Trumpeter Alison Balsom joins early music specialists Trevor Pinnock and Pinnock’s Players in bright arrangements of Baroque concertos, in this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. The program ...
The Christmas carol “Twas in the Moon of Wintertime” is also known as the Huron Carol. It’s a 17th century Canadian Christmas song by a Jesuit missionary who lived among the Huron people.
Classical music’s evolution is rich with intriguing and lesser-known developments. For instance, the Baroque period introduced the basso continuo, a continuous bass line that became a defining ...
Valenzuela made Graupner his personal cause in this program. The problem, as with many composers of the Baroque era, is the sheer quantity of material he produced, which creates choice paralysis.
In classical music today, many composers from the Baroque era, roughly 1600 to 1750, remain well-known names — at least, the European ones do, like Bach, Vivaldi and Handel. But what about ...
Dick Allen and Dave Parker earned election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Dec. 8, 2024, via the Classic Baseball Era Committee process. The eight-person ballot was comprised of candidates ...