Touring solo artists come to Western Pennsylvania almost every week of the concert season. Touring orchestras, by contrast, are a real rarity. Yes, Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic played ...

There are many ways to measure devotion to the arts, but directing half a Baroque Festival when having just battled pneumonia surely deserves its own saintly order. Yet there was Kenneth Zammit ...

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Violinist Elizabeth Field operates in two musical worlds, the modern and the baroque. Her modern world encompasses her concertmaster position with the Bethlehem Bach Choir and as guest artist with the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Handel and Haydn Society is set to celebrate one of the Baroque ...

The 16-piece Venice Baroque Orchestra performed Feb. 26 at Tulane University. (Venice Baroque Orchestra) Baroque music too often brings up a certain pedantic mindset that can, even under otherwise ...

WORCESTER — Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" — four violin concertos depicting the different seasons of the year beginning with spring and ending with winter — was a revolutionary work when it was ...

In introductory remarks to the final concert of Baroque Band’s season Friday night, concertmaster-guest conductor Joan Plana told the audience at Augustana Lutheran Church of the “huge amount of risks ...

The Texas premiere of a lost Vivaldi opera and a program exploring Spanish influence in the music of Boccherini are among the highlights of Mercury Baroque's 2010-11 season. Led by artistic director ...

Vivaldi is celebrated for "The Four Seasons" and innumerable other concertos, less so for his operas and his sacred music. Friday at Jordan Hall, Boston Baroque under music director Martin Pearlman ...

American Baroque Opera Company's Aztec characters in Antonio Vivaldi's opera Montezuma were costumed in flamboyant quasi-native attire designed by Arturo Hernandez. Karen Almond / American Baroque ...