At Florentine's invitation, I watched the dress rehearsal of "Acis and Galatea" Wednesday evening. Handel's Baroque opera, ...
Concerts in Oak Park feature “the most unusual repertoire. Sometimes you’ll only hear those pieces at the Handel Week ...
Composed by George Frideric Handel on a harpsichord in 1741, with its words taken from the Bible, it was originally intended as an Easter concert. But because much of the two-and-a-half-hour ...
Invented by Bartolomeu Christofori, the piano gave composers more dynamic range than the harpsichord ... became a hit with the masses in the 1700s. Handel was one of the most successful composers ...
The 74th annual performance of Handel’s “Messiah” by the Messiah ... a string orchestra, an organ, a harpsichord and a trumpet. The reduced number may increase as chorus members seek to ...
Listen to this effect in J.S. Bach's 'Badinerie' from Suite No. 2. The harpsichord made a short, staccato sound as the strings were plucked inside the instrument. If a Baroque composer wanted a ...