For many years, violinist Jeanne Lamon was concertmaster of top period orchestras across Europe and North America, and her superb musicianship earned her a 33 year tenure as music director of Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra until her retirement in 2014. The remarkable musician died last month, and Sunday Baroque will celebrate her remarkable life and artistry this weekend.
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Francesco Maria Veracini was an 18th century violin “superstar” who toured Europe playing for his fans, and turned down opportunities to work for royal patrons because he was so eager to travel and play on his own terms. You’ll hear another violin “superstar” – Rachel Barton Pine — playing one of Francesco Maria Veracini’s ACADEMIC SONATAS on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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France’s kings were important patrons of the arts and employed some of the best musicians to entertain them. With Bastille Day coming up on July 14th, you’ll music by some of France’s most esteemed early French musicians on Sunday Baroque this week.
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This Sunday is Independence Day, and Sunday Baroque is celebrating with baroque music performed by talented US musicians, such as California-based Agave Baroque … New Mexico Brass Quintet … and the newly-released recording featuring Simone Dinnerstein playing American composer Richard Danielpour’s transcriptions of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. It’s a 4th of July party on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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A fine musical instrument should be played, right? Well, a 1704 Stradivarius violin was stashed away – barely played – for most of its existence. The pristine instrument was awakened from its long slumber, nicknamed the Sleeping Beauty, and purchased in 1995 for violinist Isabelle Faust to use. You’ll hear her play music on it by Johann Sebastian Bach on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Every year on the third Sunday in June, we celebrate Father’s Day. In the baroque era, music was often a family business, passed along from fathers to their children. Sunday Baroque will celebrate some of those musical fathers and their talented offspring, including a father and daughter performance of a sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach, and a Sonata by his son Carl Philip Emanuel on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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DANCE music is something many composers are inspired to write – and in the baroque era, dancing was considered an important social skill and a common activity. You can dance your way through Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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June has long been a popular month for weddings … maybe because it’s named after the goddess Juno, patroness of marriage. Baroque music is often used to provide a celebratory tone for wedding ceremonies and celebrations, so you’ll hear some wedding favorites on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Poppies are symbolic of eternal life, death, sleep and beauty. John McRae’s 1915 poem “In Flanders Fields” describes the poppies that grew near the graveyards and the World War 1 Flanders battlefields, where so many soldiers lost their lives. You’ll hear James Oswald’s musical depiction of the POPPY on Sunday Baroque this Memorial Day weekend.
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Dominoes … Fencing … a composer from a family of chess masters … and some musical games. Those are some of the fun and merriment you’ll enjoy, courtesy of baroque era musicians such as Francois Couperin, Johann Schmelzer and Andre Danican Philidor on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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