High Baroque News Today

Sandro Da Silva discusses the influence of Antonio Vivaldi on Johann Sebastian Bach, in particular on Bach's organ transcriptions.

AN ODDITY IN THE OPENING CREDITS for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma (1962) has gone largely unremarked, probably because it is so cursory. A minute or so into the credit sequence, which is accompanied by the stately largo from Vivaldi’s Concerto for Viola d’Amore and Lute in D Minor, a fly suddenly enters at the lower right-hand side of the frame, meanders a bit before pausing on the name of an actor (Giulio de Stephanis) as if to inspect it, and then skitters off as quickly as it had em...

The opening chorus of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio represents High Baroque splendour at its most electrifying. On Sunday night, it was a spectacular launch for...

Works by Giambattista Tiepolo and his son Domenico offer hints of whatever subterranean Oedipal struggles played out between them.

A winter sports education fundraiser and a variety of music, drama and art shows are offered on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

PORT TOWNSEND — The second of three concerts in the “Early Music at the Grange” series will be hosted by the Quimper Grange on Saturday.

The 17th century tapestries, based on designs made by Peter Paul Rubens are back on display in the main nave of the Co-Cathedral of Saint John.

At Aria, the latest project from Tao Group is the Las Vegas outpost of a New York City original

At Aria, the latest project from Tao Group is the Las Vegas outpost of a New York City original

At Aria, the latest project from Tao Group is the Las Vegas outpost of a New York City original