Early Music in the News

    The latest North American early music news from various media sources.

    Decca, Hoping for a Chant-Style Juggernaut, Signs Cloistered Nuns For Record Deal
    July 25, 2010, CBC News

    Early Music Vancouver Festival goes for Baroque
    July 21, 2010, The Vancouver Sun

    Classical Music’s New Golden Age
    July 2010, The City Journal (New York, NY)

    Naxos Chief Talks Business About Classical Recordings
    July 17, 2010, Washington Post

    With harp and Old English, 'Beowulf' comes to Tanglewood
    July 15, 2010, Albany Times Union

    Figuring Out Bach's Intentions, In The Course Of Flouting Them
    July 15, 2010, Wall Street Journal

    Bach soloists are growing baroque
    July 12, 2010, San Francisco Examiner

    Aspen Music Fest: Baroque with Nicholas McGegan
    July 11, 2010, The Aspen Times

    Alex Ross: Classical Music Is Younger And Hipper Than Late-Night TV
    July 8, 2010, The Rest is Noise

    Musician ordered to fly cello first-class
    July 5, 2010, The New York Post

    Apollo's Fire turns vast Cain Park amphitheatre into intimate space
    July 4, 2010, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)

    7 days of music, 400 years of tradition
    July 5, 2010, The Capital Times (Madison, WI)

    Oldies are really old
    June 27, 2010, Indianapolis Star

    Medieval Music: John Hillenbrand Fiddles Up Distant Past
    June 2010, Savannah Morning News

    Aston Magna explores Bach’s dance rhythms
    June 18, 2010, The Boston Globe

    Washington Early Music Festival
    June 2, 2010, The Washington Post

    Old music from the New World
    May 12, 2010, The Prague Post

    Old-time music
    May 11, 2010, The Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, PA)

    Early Music Now to honor St. Francis of Assisi next season
    May 2, 2010, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

    Aston Magna excels on period instruments
    April 15, 2010, The Advocate (North Adams, MA)

    Upcoming Music City Baroque program highlights the parallels between the Baroque violin repertoire and American fiddle music
    April 15, 2010, Nashville Scene

    Not too late for Chicago's early-music groups to shine
    April 15, 2010, Chicago Tribune

    William Christie leads Baroque operas in New York
    April 19, 2010, The New Yorker

    Nic McGegan's Custom-Tailored Harpsichord
    April 8, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle

    Jacobs School of Music partners with Bloomington Early Music Festival to present a conference on Isaac
    April 8, 2010, IU News Room (Bloomington, IN)

    QandA with Piers Adams, founder member of the British nouveau classic music quartet
    April 8, 2010, California Chronicle

    Pop Star: Chatham Baroque's Andrew Fouts
    April 7, 2010, Pop City Media (Pittsburgh)

    Forsaking 'Authenticity'
    March 30, 2010, Wall Street Journal

    The Aulos Ensemble at David Jones Auditorium
    March 29, 2010, The Sayville News (Sayville, NY)

    Ensemble Lipzodes to perform CD-release concert at Lilly Library
    March 26, 2010, IU News Room (Bloomington, IN)

    Musica Pacifica is the rare early-music group that's not afraid of crossing over
    March 18, 2010, GoErie.com (Erie, PA)

    Apollo's Fire to tour Europe for first time in November
    March 13, 2010, The Plain Dealer

    Museum Sets Grand Stage for Strings and Horns
    March 11, 2010, New York Times

    Cloistered nuns wrote music with a message
    March 7, 2010, Cincinnati.com

    Jordi Savall: Suite Inspiration and Gamba Man
    March 7, 2010, San Francisco Classical Voice

    André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopen at The Met
    March 3, 2010, Broadway World

    Emmanuel Music announces new artistic leader
    March 2, 2010, Boston Globe

    Coda: The Performance I Can't Forget
    March 1, 2010, Opera News

    IU Jacobs School ensemble ¡Sacabuche! invited to the Berkeley Early Music Festival
    February 19, 2010, IU News Room (Indiana University)

    Musicians Drive Emmanuelle Haim From Paris Opera Podium
    February 18, 2010, Le Monde via Ionarts

    Lutenist Paul O'Dette deciphers Bach's music
    February 12, 2010, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

    Boston’s Liber Ensemble to replace canceled Trio Mediaeval
    February 11, 2010, Chicago Classical Review

    Group joins Denton Bach Society
    February 9, 2010, Denton Record-Chronicle

    Ensemble Lipzodes resurrects 500-year-old music from Guatemala
    February 8, 2010, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

    Thousands protest at break-up of V&A musical instrument collection
    February 1, 2010, Times Online (UK)

    Classical artists such as Hilary Hahn chart big on Billboard with little sales
    January 30, 2010, Washington Post

    Utopia bringing post-Revolutionary American music
    January 30, 2010, Deseret News

    Christophers Makes His Mark on H and H
    January 28, 2010, Wall Street Journal

    Madrigals and Motets
    January 27, 2010, San Francisco Classical Voice

    Pegasus Early Music in Rochester
    January 27, 2010, Rochester City Newspaper

    High School Musical-Baroque Style
    January 11, 2010, Strings Magazine

    Ton Koopman in Boston
    January 7, 2010, Boston Herald

    Twelfth Night Celebrations in Columbus
    January 7, 2010, The Columbus Dispatch

    Louis XIV’s Bassoon
    December 30, 2009, Tacoma Weekly

    Boston Baroque to conduct itself in comedic ways
    December 30, 2009, Boston Herald

    Critic's Choice: CD-Michael Maniaci, Mozart Arias for Male Soprano
    December 30, 2009, San Francisco Sentinel


    Links to Critics' Best of 2009 Lists

    Artistic vision was absent at times in Levine's BSO
    December 27, 2009, The Boston Globe

    Return of symphony struck welcome note
    December 27, 2009, The Columbus Dispatch

    Finally, a year that gave people reason to believe
    December 26, 2009, The Gazette (Montreal)


    Jordi Savall Gives 'Around the World' the Album of the Year -- and Much More
    December 22, 2009, Spinner

    Artist Visa Update
    December 18, 2009, The Performing Arts Alliance

    Chatham Baroque video
    December 18, 2009, Pittsburgh Post Gazette

    Handel's Original Messiah Manuscript Now Online
    December 17, 2009, New York Times

    Julianne Baird
    December 11, 2009, Star-Ledger

    Rebuilding An Instrument By Leonardo's Design
    December 10, 2009, NPR

    Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt turns 80
    December 4, 2009, AFP

    Reviving the Recorder
    December 1, 2009, The Flat Hat

    In Harmony with Haydn
    November 26, 2009, San Francisco Chronicle

    William Hudson wins Noah Greenberg Award
    November 24, 2009, IU News Room 

    HC Robbins Landon Dies
    November 24, 2009, The Guardian (UK)

    The Sonata Project in Vancouver BC
    November 19, 2009, Georgia Straight

    Playing Early Music at Brandeis
    November 17, 2009, Justice Online

    Susan Graham and Nic McGegan do Dido
    November 8, 2009, Los Angeles Times

    The Newberry Consort, cast adrift, looks to friends to keep it afloat
    November 5, 2009, Chicago Tribune

    Anonymous 4: Some En-chanting Evening
    October 21, 2009, San Francisco Classical Voice