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GETTY MUSEUM
02/01/2008
Among Los Angeles’ J. Paul Getty Museum’s many strengths is its collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts and individual leaves. In three major exhibitions lasting until 20 April 2008, the museum will be displaying a large part of its permanent collection. |
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CONSTELLATION CENTER, CLOSER TO REALITY
12/09/2007
Plans for a multi-chambered baroque concert complex are inching closer to the phases of fundraising and building. The president of the Constellation Center Project, Glenn KnicKrehm hosted a lecture at the Boston Early Music Festival on the procedures of building a proper baroque opera theater and concert hall. |
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NEW ORGAN AT YALE
10/09/2007
2184 organ pipes were brought by crane into Yale University’s Marquand Chapel this past June. Taylor and Boody’s four-manual, mean-tone temperament organ was slowly set up in the chapel balcony, complementing the existing three manual, 1931 Skinner organ on the floor. |
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NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR AT THE INDIANAPOLIS EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
06/09/2007
The Indianapolis Early Music Festival has announced the appointment of a new musical director, Mark Cudek. Cudek succeeds outgoing director Frank Cooper who is retiring after a 34-year stint. |
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CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY FOR EARLY MUSIC AWARDS BEZUIDENHOUT AND DRAKE
31/08/2007
Two scions of the early music movement received just recognition at the Boston Early Music Festival this past June. Kristian Bezuidenhout, a South African keyboard player who began music studies at 10 and now plays all over the world, and Kenneth Drake, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, received the Erwin Bodky prize and the Arion Award, respectively, from the Cambridge Society for Early Music. |
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AMERICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SOCIETY
19/04/2007
The American Musical Instrument Society holds its 36th annual meeting at the end of June. This international society was founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods. |
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BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
16/03/2007
11 June to 17 June.
The centerpiece of Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition will be a staged performance of Lully’s Psyché. Every other year for the past six, Boston has resurrected an obscure but astonishing opera. This year’s theme, 'Feast of the Gods', involves hundreds of musicians from the U.S. and abroad. |
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MIDEAST WORKSHOP
14/03/2007
On the U.S.’s Atlantic coast consorts of early music instruments get mixed and matched in the Mideast Workshop at La Roche College in Pittsburgh (22 July to 28 July). |
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THE UNITED STATES BALDWIN-WALLACE BACH FESTIVAL
13/03/2007
20 to 22 April.
A glittering celebration marks the diamond jubilee of the oldest collegiate Bach festival in the United States. During the weekend of 20 April the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival in Berea, Ohio offers its 75th anniversary tribute to J. S. Bach, Handel and several other contemporaries. |
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BOSTON ATHENAEUM
23/02/2007
A major exhibition at the Boston Athenaeum celebrating 200 years of collecting displays one of North America’s greatest musical treasures: a 1532 bound volume of Masses printed by Pierre Attaignant. |
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