On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman leads Amsterdam Baroque in music that reflects the complexity of belief through one of the composer's most brilliant works, written for Easter.
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Much ink has been spilled in writing books about classical music. Here are some staff favorites.
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Fall is for sad love songs, jazz spirituals, sleeping in, and pie. Lots of pie. Get your fill in this month's Instant Replay.
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For centuries, composers have paid tribute to St. Cecilia, remembered on November 22nd, leading to a fascinating tapestry of musical expression.
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Walt Disney’s spookiest “Silly Symphony” launched a new approach to classical music in cartoons, but its roots go as far back as the medieval Black Plague.
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Join the GRAMMY-winning Boston Early Music Festival and Idagio for a holiday program showcasing masterworks from the Italian Baroque by Arcangelo Corelli and Alessandro Stradella!
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer performs his own music as well as that of Florence Price and Franz Schubert, with violinist Wendy Putnam, in a Concord…
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See and hear a performance of Handel's masterpiece by the Handel and Haydn Society, produced at GBH.Boston's Handel and Haydn Society hasn't missed a…
From NPR Music
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Absent from the recording studio for more than a decade, the restless musician has commissioned six composers for his new album.
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In their new book On Minimalism, musicologists William Robin and Kerry O'Brien capture the lesser-known stories of the musical movement and its development, era by era.
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On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman leads Amsterdam Baroque in music that reflects the complexity of belief through one of the composer's most brilliant works, written for Easter.
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