Kenneth Goldsmith’s 1690 Albanus violin. Photo by St. John Flynn. This evening at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, faculty and students present “Sharing the Spotlight,” a recital of works ...

Fans of classical music may have a go-to composer, time period, or genre, and with so much falling under the “classical music” umbrella it’s a great feeling to find a particular piece or style that ...

Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare strings ...

The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...

Curious about the long neck sticking up from the orchestra pit during the Houston Grand Opera's performances of The Coronation of Poppea? It belongs to a theorbo, a member of the lute family. The ...

NEW HAVEN >> Tickets to the Sunday afternoon concerts at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments museum on Hillhouse Avenue are a tough get. But there is a way to be a part of this series in ...

If the instruments were exotic, the music played was mostly top-hit Baroque pieces. Two of Handel's most familiar works were performed, the 1717 "Water Music Suite in F" and the 1748 "Music for the ...

Elizabeth Blumenstock is speaking from her home, high in the mountains, about 30 miles south of Santa Fe, N.M. She describes the place as a housing co-op, shared by five. It’s on 40 acres dotted with ...

Maestro Michael Sand has been Angelo Moreno’s “Baroque Musical Mentor” for the past 30 years and what better way to express his thanks than by throwing a concert at the Richard Brunelle Performance ...