Talk about delicate labor on Labor Day weekend: If the musician strikes the keys of this 1770 French harpsichord too hard and the plectrum or quills that pluck the strings break, it may require the ...
A rare opportunity to hear baroque music played on a mandolino and concert-level 17th century French harpsichord is coming to the Rancho Bernardo Library. The free concert will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday ...
The sounds of the 18 th century filled the Wren Chapel last week as a group of graduate students from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance joined with William & Mary students for a ...
CHARLEVOIX — Robert Pattengale and his French double harpsichord will be featured in the 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra’s “Moments of Change-From the Baroque to the Classic” ...
There are labors of love, and then there’s this story. In the late 1980s, woodworker Gregory Bover decided to build a pretty incredible gift for his wife, Frances Fitch, an internationally known ...
Karen Flint teaches harpsichord at the University of Delaware and has been the artistic director of Brandywine Baroque, Delaware’s premier early-music ensemble, since its founding. Ms. Flint has ...
“Wolfgang Zuckermann was for the harpsichord a little like Charles Lindbergh was for aviation,” Marc Ducornet, a renowned French harpsichord maker who knew and worked with Zuckermann, said in an email ...