“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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Timothy Burris will perform a benefit concert of Baroque lute and classical ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Taking place at St John's Smith Square from Friday 12th to Saturday 20th ...

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 ...

Named after a toccata by German composer Girolamo Kapsberger, L'Arpeggiata produces its unmistakable sonority mainly from the resonance of plucked strings, creating a tightly-woven acoustic texture ...

In the dance world of the 17th and early 18th centuries, France was the center of the universe. “Je suis le Roi-Soleil!” boasted King Louis XIV, and indeed, Europe’s cultural elite revolved around his ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. To open the program, Schneiderman, LACO Concertmaster Margaret Batjer and ...