Fun in the Sun
"Performing this music is just really fun", says Neapolitan Christmas soprano Rebecca Myers. Which is totally as it should be. It’s from Naples! For centuries—no, millennia!—Naples, a.k.a. “The City of a Thousand Faces,” has been.
Author: Anne Schuster Hunter
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Handel, Harrison and Sheeran seem to take their inspirations not out of thin air, but out of the aural soup that flows nonstop in the sensory environment. Is it stealing? borrowing? or something in between?.
Let’s taste the sweet pleasures, today we live
April may well be the sweetest month here in Philadelphia. Especially this April. And the city’s many boutique bakeries are answering the challenge with a plethora of sweet temptations
Judith and the Long Life of Righteous Rage
The story of Judith and Holofernes can only be called a Ripping Yarn. Although it’s 2000 years old, first having appeared in the first Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, 100 BCE, it’s a story.
MATCHLESS & UNMATCHED
" Some day, I hope this work will make me famous...". When Telemann wrote this in 1732 it was an unexpected comment: he was already famous.
A river, a king, A Water Music
A sweet story circulated about Water Music during George Frideric Handel’s lifetime. It’s sweet, but unfortunately it’s also not true—the dates don’t work out. It’s worth taking a moment to give it a look, though,.
Venice’s Improbable All-Girl baroque Bands
Ah, Venice. The Rialto, the Grand Canal, the Cathedral of San Marco, the piazzas, mists, stones, beaches, veils of golden light, “La Serenissima.” The city holds a special place in the imagination. In Death in.
Tempesta & Fasch: An Ongoing Affair
2008-2023 | 15-year Anniversary It’s a relationship that’s just getting better, and 2023 is its Crystal Anniversary. Fifteen seasons ago, fresh in love with the music of German high baroque master Johann Friedrich Fasch, Tempesta.
Does A Rose With No Name At All Smell As Sweet?
Tempesta di Mare presents Anonymous. For something that’s nothing, “anonymous” sure carries a lot of baggage. Literally “without a name,” “anonymous” would seem to be value-neutral. It gets into some shady business, though. “Anonymous tip,”.
Dowland: Master of Melancholy
Excerpt from Anne Schuster Hunter’s blogpost from May 2021 “No hope, nor help there doth remain, but down, down, down I fall” “Sorrow stay”: lyric by anonymous, music by John Dowland (1562 – 1626), John Dowland. Renowned.