The Dryden Ensemble returns with its new artistic director, Daniel Swenberg, in a program entitled "A 26-Course Feast: Baroque Lute Duets" on Sunday, February 16 at 4:00 p.m. at the Unitarian ...

“Frets & Strings,” Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra’s 2007-08 chamber series opener this weekend, will spotlight one of the world’s leading lute and guitar virtuosos, John Schneiderman. Led by ...

NYS Baroque will present lute player Paul O’Dette in two concerts this weekend. O’Dette, a professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, has a worldwide performing and conducting career but ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Paul O'Dette made the leap from being a teen in a rock band playing Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin to being today a renowned player of an Early Music instrument. O'Dette plays ...

The quaint and quirky sounds of the sackbut, krummhorn and shawm may be heard this weekend at Chicago`s 1985 Early Music Festival and Exhibition, featuring the best of the city`s antiquarian music.

When music demands extended bass range, interesting things happen. In the baroque era, bass range was all the rage in opera, and so new instruments were brought into being, the theorbo and the ...

Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...