Vespers is the name for an evening prayer service in the Catholic Church. Monteverdi most likely wrote the Vespers in Mantua, ...

The Belceas were joined by Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras for this revelatory performance of Brahms’s two youthful String Sextets ...

The early eighteenth century witnessed the zenith of counterpoint ... fugues proper were usually confined to choral music and special occasions, but there are exceptions. Haydn, the inventor of the ...

minimizing the counterpoint in the song’s final section. You can hear it by comparing the two tracks below — the underpinning of synth strings and a final bell note is much more muted in the ...

If you don’t like that clatter, wait a minute and luxurious string passages will ... And in the end, the counterpoint of the ...

The work is often cited as “the most present-tense music ever,” and it’s a fitting description ... throughout the weekend of ...

The name of the string quartet Brooklyn Rider is a takeoff on the pre-World War I artistic movement called Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Nearing its 20th ...

Rebecca Clarke with violin, in the yard at Gayton Corner, Harrow, c. 1908, Rebecca Clarke and James Friskin Papers, Library of Congress. Courtesy Christopher Johnson, rebeccaclarkecomposer.com.

minimizing the counterpoint in the song’s final section. You can hear it by comparing the two tracks below — the underpinning of synth strings and a final bell note is much more muted in the ...

Season highlights include a new Global Voices Music Series celebrating traditions from around the world and a limited ...

Flint Hills Counterpoint celebrates the premier of ‘The Silphium ... by the Kansas Arts Commission and is free to the public. The Switchgrass String Quartet will perform live music for the film: ...

Saturday will be the premiere showing of a documentary art film featuring development of a plot of silphium at Flint Hills Counterpoint’s home base. “The Silphium Plot” will be shown at 7 p.m. at the ...