Beautiful Music

April 15 is the longstanding deadline for submitting tax returns, although this year the deadline has been extended to Monday, May 17. Today’s Beautiful Music is by a baroque era composer whose “day job” was as tax collector for the Royal Tobacco Company. Joseph Bodin de Boismortier kept up an ambitious dual career, working full […]

On April 14, 1611, the word “telescope” was first used, a term coined at a banquet hosted by the Italian scientist and naturalist Prince Federico Cesi. To put that into some historical perspective, 1611 was also the year that Carlo Gesualdo composed his 6-voice sacred work, Aestimatus sum, responsory  W. 7/87. Today’s Beautiful Music is

Music – poetry – amazing ancient instruments! What a fun concert performance this is! Voices of Music presents their program, Leonardo da Vinci: A Musical Odyssey. These fine musicians have crafted a joyful and captivating narrative of Beautiful Music from Leonardo’s time, woven together with poetry readings. (75) Leonardo da Vinci: A Musical Odyssey. Music

As Spring unfolds, it’s time for a nature walk, courtesy of composers Jan Sweelinck and William Byrd, taking us on a musical journey through the woods so wild and under the lime tree. Multi-talented musician and musicologist, Dr. Joyce Chen, performs their Beautiful Music on harpsichord and virginal.  There are links below with more information

I recently learned about The Choir School of Delaware, and the important work it is doing in serving at-risk students under age 18 from the greater Wilmington area. Here is its Mission: The Choir School of Delaware is a comprehensive, multifaceted, after-school program that has a strong legacy of serving and engaging Wilmington’s youth and families

April 10th is Siblings Day, when we celebrate the special bond that exists between siblings. Today’s Beautiful Music is provided by a SPECTACULARLY talented group of seven musical siblings: The Kanneh-Mason family. Isata  is 24 and plays piano, Braimah is 22 and plays violin, 21 year old Sheku is a cellist, 20 year old Konya

Just wait until you hear today’s Beautiful Music — it extra-special! It’s a concert performance from May 2012 by Nakumanta Inemo Baroque Ensemble, a Bolivian musical group. They perform a variety of music, including songs sung in Quicha, and Western music from the baroque era, brought to South American by missionaries and others. Bolivian Festival:

Giacomo Facco was a new name to me until only recently. He was a violinist and composer born near Venice who lived from 1676-1753, and his career experienced tremendous highs and lows of success and fame. In 1962 at Vizcain Library in Mexico City, composer, conductor, and musicologist Uberto Zanolli rediscovered Giacomo Facco, who was

International Guitar Month continues with Beautiful Music by Johann Sebastian Bach played by guitarist Ana Vidovic. The Croatian musician was a child prodigy who started playing guitar at age 5, gave her first public performance at 7, and began performing internationally at age 11. She eventually came to the U.S. to study with Manuel Barrueco

To continue our observance of Poetry Month, this is poetry by an early woman — Christine de Pizan — set to music by Gilles Binchois. Christine de Pizan was born in Venice in 1364 and educated at the University of Bologna. She wrote poetry and prose, and was the first female professional writer of the