PORT TOWNSEND — A pipe organ capable of making music the way it was heard during the 17th-century Baroque period will be played for the first time publicly today. “These are the same sounds that you ...

Yale has a new organ that sounds about three centuries old. After nearly a decade of planning and 26,000 man-hours, the Institute of Sacred Music unveiled its new Baroque organ in the Divinity ...

Many Pinoys may have read about the Baroque period in their history classes. They may not know it, but they can actually still see and hear a bit of this grand period—and they don't even have to leave ...

PORT TOWNSEND — An organist sits down at a pipe organ. The organ has 23 ranks of pipes replicating the instruments of a symphony orchestra. Each rank has 61 pipes spanning five octaves. Using the two ...

After five years Jeremy settled in Vienna where he secured a position with the Vienna Academy, a chamber music orchestra specialising in baroque music and playing on period instruments. Jeremy enjoys ...

For its 44th edition, the International Bamboo Organ Festival will feature “Magnificat” by J.S. Bach and other works of the Baroque period (Telemann, Charpentier, Buxtehude), performed by Johann ...

The restoration of elaborate church pipe organs in Oaxaca to their former Baroque glory. Centuries ago Catholic religious orders from Spain created a Baroque culture among the Indians of the Mexican ...

Last fall, I had the pleasure of taking David Yearsley’s course on Music Journalism. Within discussions of style, diction and structure, Yearsley’s classes taught close analysis of journalistic ...

Recent “serious” live music highlights included a true banjo wizard, a young string quartet sensation, and Santa Barbara ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

Still, however you dress up a pipe organ, it’s still a pipe organ. And some people just can’t stand it. Part of the problem is the organ’s associations. For older people it connotes the church, for ...