Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale will present the first U.S. performances of Handel's 1742 Dublin version of ALEXANDER'S FEAST led by ...

In 1973, American conductor, harpsichordist, and composer Martin Pearlman broke new ground by founding North America’s first permanent Baroque orchestra. His ensemble became a driving force in the ...

Handel composed Alexander’s Feast (HWV 75) in 1736, setting a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton. Hamilton, in turn, adapted his ...

The early-music movement has changed not only how musicians play—tuning, timbre, technique, style—but also what they play. A couple of generations ago, programs of Baroque music were dominated by such ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Ian Johnson BEIJING — The young musicians ended the first movement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and looked expectantly at the maestro.

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 ...

Casual classical music listeners might think of it as a genre designed around string quartets and pianos. But the hardcore devotees among us know that the piano didn’t even exist when many of the best ...

Naomi: The style of music called Baroque developed from about the year 1600 onwards. Just like the architecture of the time, it was very ornate and lavish and was dominated by composers like Vivaldi, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Father Piotr Nawrot’s face glows as he examines a carefully restored fragment of the score from a rare Baroque ...