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Classical 101It’s been a year of canceled concerts, scratched plans, and vanished dreams for The Early Interval, Columbus’ resident early music ensemble.
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Classical 101When you think of improvisation in music, you probably think of saxophone lines sailing through the smoke of a jazz club, not cello riffs frilling up a…
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Classical 101Routine is great, but once in a while it’s good to leave the box of familiarity and do something a tad off-plumb.Enter Red Priest.The British baroque…
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Classical 101“I think of her as the Beyoncé of the Baroque.”That’s Early Interval soprano Elizabeth McConnaughey’s take on Barbara Strozzi, a woman who, centuries ago,…
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Classical 101Last Friday afternoon, Classical 101 really did go for Baroque.Our crew went to Capital University’s Mees Auditorium for a rehearsal of acclaimed ensemble…
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Classical 101There was a time and a place when the cello was the Rodney Dangerfield of instruments — it got no respect.That time was the 1700s, and the place was…
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Classical 101Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos – take your pick Bach composed six so-called Brandenburg Concertos, concerti grossi in an all-new style and dedicated to the…
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Classical 101Jeannette Sorrell, founder and artistic director of the Cleveland-based period-instrument orchestra Apollo's Fire, is one of the world's foremost…
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Classical 101The award-winning, Montreal-based early music ensemble Infusion Baroque performed live in the Classical 101 studio this morning, and we captured the…
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Classical 101It’s one thing to give elegant, award-winning performances of music composed by Baroque-era composers who were, as my Kentucky grandmother used to say, no…