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28 Feb 2021 SINT AND SINNER: Above, St Jerome in the Wilderness, by Andrea Solario In the latest of her regular columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer LONG before he met Joséphine, John Bowes was buying paintings. In 1830, aged 19, he made a brief Grand Tour of the continent and acquired his first painting, the Temptation of St Anthony. By 1844 he had bought 57 artworks, ranging from Italian pre-Renaissance to Dutch 1...

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. Fr...

Music reviews: The Besnard Lakes, Estere, Genesis Baroque and more We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 29, 2021 — 4.00pm Save Normal text size Credit:Paascalino Photography. ★★★★ It should come as no surprise that, when 2020 forced New Zealand’s Estere Dalton to delay the release of her third studio album, she threw herself into the production of an ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) music and po...

Gayle Williams, Correspondent Sarasota Orchestra musicians are handling the adversity and challenges of the pandemic with aplomb. Thursday’s debut of “Serioso,” the latest of their live concerts in Holley Hall, showed off serious talent and considerable ensemble strength in three widely diverse compositions, the last of which knocked our socks off. Violinist Christopher Takeda took the lead in the absence of a conductor and the results were rock solid in Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto Gr...

Arts events for Sarasota Manatee: Jan. 28-Feb. 3 Our weekly guide to the performing and visual arts in the Sarasota-Manatee area. Key Chorale goes for Baroque Like other organizations that have been experimenting with digital performances and testing how many artists they can safely bring together in one space, Key Chorale is expanding its group of musicians for its “Bach Together Again” concert that makes its digital debut Friday. Artistic Director Joseph Caulkins said he chose the Baroqu...

Sarasota Orchestra gets ‘Serioso’ in new chamber concert Susan L. Rife, Correspondent George Walker, the first Black man to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, was just 24 years old when he composed his first string quartet, titled “Lament,” in memorial to his grandmother, who had escaped slavery, lost a husband when he was sold, and lived to a great age. When Walker heard the quartet performed by string orchestra, he reworked the “Lament” and retitled it “Lyric for Strings.” “I...

Comment Each European nation has its own rich and complex culture – there’s no such thing as European music Every nation’s classical music is different from its neighbours’, and full of apparent opposites too Gianni Schicchi at the Royal Opera House Credit: Alastair Muir  We hear a lot these days about “European values”, especially from European politicians keen to tout the virtues of the EU. But it’s notable that these politicians always have trouble pinning down these European ...

Sing Noel with Early Music Vancouver Fans of Baroque music enjoy a long tradition in Vancouver — every year we look forward to an extravagant just-before-Christmas production from Early Music Vancouver Author of the article: David Gordon Duke Publishing date: Dec 16, 2020  •  December 16, 2020  •  3 minute read  •  Mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó headlines EMVs traditional pre-Christmas show this year. Photo by Mike Southworth /Handout/Early Music Vancouver Reviews and rec...

Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas Concerto (Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8) often turns up on classical Christmas music albums. And I admit I never quite understood why. To my ears, there wasn’t anything especially Christmassy about it. That’s what makes this release so welcome. The liner notes explain the aesthetic behind these Italian Baroque Christmas concertos. And the album presents four examples that demonstrate that aesthetic. In the early 1700s, Italian Christmas Eve service...

The Nutcracker is for ballet troupes and A Christmas Carol is for theaters. But they’re close. With this year’s online-only events, the income opportunity is smaller, but the opportunity to reach new audiences is much greater, especially since some offerings are available for as long as a month. Here’s a roundup of what artists and local presenters and producers have in store to help you celebrate, with appropriate social distancing, of course. AMP Concerts: Lucinda Williams The...