Guitarist Sharon Isbin recently added another honor to her long list of awards: she was inducted into the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America Hall of Fame and received their Artistic Achievement Award. You can hear the Grammy Award-winning musician playing some 16th century solos on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Esteban Salas was a Cuban composer of religious vocal music. He was born in 1725 – right near the end of the baroque era – and he worked at the cathedral of Santiago de Cuba. One of his compositions is a beautiful work for 4 voices, violins & bass, and you’ll have a chance to hear it on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Poet Robert Burns wrote, “O, my love’s like a red, red rose/ That’s newly sprung in June…” June is National Rose Month. It’s a celebration of the fragrant symbol of love and friendship, passion and desire, beauty and elegance. You’ll hear music inspired by roses on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Poppies are symbols of eternal life, death, sleep and beauty, in the poem “In Flanders Fields” describes the poppies that sprang up on the World War I Flanders battlefields, where so many soldiers lost their lives. Poppies have become a symbol of Memorial Day, and you’ll hear a musical depiction of the flower on Sunday Baroque this Memorial Day weekend.
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Sailors in Venice normally gather every year at this time for a ceremony called the Wedding of Venice to the Sea. They offer prayers of thanksgiving to Saint Nicholas, their patron saint, and hold a symbolic wedding of Venice to the Adriatic, tossing a gold wedding ring into the water and repeating a Latin wedding vow. The King’s Consort recreated the ceremony in music – as it would have been celebrated in 1600 – and you’ll hear some of it on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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Mother’s Day has been an official US holiday for more than a century. Sunday Baroque will feature music by 17th and 18th century composers who were THEMSELVES mothers, including Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Princess Anna Amalia, and Francesca Caccini. You’ll hear musical moms on Sunday Baroque this Mother’s Day weekend.
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Although there’s a handful of composers who whose names have been more enduring over the centuries, there were countless others who were less well-known yet highly accomplished and talented musicians. You’ll hear a few of them this weekend on Sunday Baroque, including a French woman who was a virtuosa organist, harpsichordist, and composer. It’s on Sunday Baroque.
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If you were in England in the 16th century, you would be celebrating MAY DAY on May first. Spring Festivals were often raucous celebrations with dancing & singing, bonfires & maypoles, and a strong punch called MAY CUP. You’ll hear lively May Day music from John Playford’s English Dancing Master on Sunday Baroque this week.
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The first Earth Day took place on April 22 in 1970 – it was billed as a “national teach-in on the environment.” A year later, President Nixon celebrated Earth Day’s first anniversary with a proclamation establishing Earth Week. Sunday Baroque is celebrating our planet with music inspired by nature, including charming brass dances through the pretty woods, a rustic concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, and a Concerto whose soloists are a cuckoo and a nightingale. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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In the 18th century, the Concert Spirituel was a French musical society that sponsored a concert series in Paris. In 1988, a new Concert Spirituel was formed to play music from the earlier group’s era. You’ll hear them in a Serenade by a versatile and business-minded French baroque composer on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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