Real Characters
Baroque artists of all kinds created characters so vibrant that they’re still alive for us today. Just a few literary examples: Shakespeare, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Gulliver’s Travels, and even Charles Perrault of fairy tales fame.
Author: Anne Schuster Hunter
Music in Exile (Janitsch Rediscoveries)
“Wonderful things!” Practically dumbstruck, that’s all archaeologist Howard Carter could say at his first sight of the treasures in Tutankhamen’s tomb, glittering in their long-time hiding place. “It felt like that for me, too,” says.
Holiday Sweets
The winter holidays—there’s something so golden and lustrous about them. Here at Tempesta di Mare’s offices, in South Philadelphia’s historic Italian Market, the long nights are especially beautiful. Neighbors string lights across the narrow streets.
G.P. Telemann: Fairy Tales Do Come True
In Telemann’s time, the city of Dresden was something out of a fairy tale. In the upcoming show Fire and Invention: Telemann’s Showpieces for the Dresden Virtuosi, Tempesta di Mare revisits Dresden’s magic moment with.
G.P. Telemann, Getting the Music Out
Imagine Bach and Handel in their music rooms in Leipzig and London, sitting down, opening the fresh, clean pages of music straight off the press, and playing something new they’d just received from their good.
Telemann 360°: Philadelphia gives Telemann a rousing Birthday Celebration
The world is throwing a grand anniversary party this year for one of the most deserving and long-overlooked artists in Baroque music, Georg Philipp Telemann. Published in the Fall 2017 print issue of Early Music.
Dream Vacation
In 1737, during a visit to Paris, German composer Georg Philipp Telemann got to hear his new Paris Quartets premiered by some of France’s best musicians, a remarkable experience that Tempesta di Mare will bring.
A Bohemian State of Mind
During the baroque era, Bohemia more or less disappeared from map of European culture. But invisibly, it made its presence known. Those big European capitals of the baroque world—Dresden, Berlin, London, Paris—were well enriched by.
Feature: A Bohemian State of Mind
If you look for Bohemia on a map, you won’t find it. After World War I, the old Kingdom of Bohemia folded into the Czechoslovak Republic. Bohemia never came back as an independent entity. It’s.
Feature: Eternal Spring
You know Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons. Everybody knows Spring from The Four Seasons. Even if they don’t think they know Spring, they do. Everybody recognizes that wonderful, lilting opening theme. Remember when Spring.