Featured Musician: Eve Miller
First published in March 2007 A life on the road finally caught up to Eve Miller, as it has so many musicians. It happened on a rainy Monday afternoon at a rest stop off I-5.
To the four winds
“This work, I hope, will make me famous,” G. P. Telemann wrote, in a candid moment, to a friend about music he’d just finished and was sending to the publisher, his Musique de Table (Table.
The “Three Tenors” of Lute Music: Bach, Muffat & Weiss
Three Pieces for lute that share the stage in comfort. As I practice my way through the opening show of Tempesta’s very different 2020–2021 season, a program that happens to be my solo lute recital,.
Taking Stock: the Mississippi Bubble
It’s a risky business, the stock market. Baroque Europe learned that when financial crises raged across the continent in the early 1700s. One of the worst, the Mississippi Bubble, took place in 1720. It caused.
3. Anonymous — Ceské Vánoce
3. The Great Composer: Anonymous Some of the names in Karl II’s music collection at Kroměříž are of known “thought leaders” in the field, composers whose music was widely known, respected and imitated by others..
2. A Czech Christmas — Ceské Vánoce
2. The Archbishop’s Chateau The archbishop’s chateau, a UNESCO World Heritage site where the original manuscripts for our December concert repertoire are housed, stands just off the Great Square (Velké naměsty) in the the heart.
An Introduction — A Czech Christmas
1. The Kroměříž Musical Archive Kroměříž (KRÓ-mnye-rzīzh) is a seemingly modest hamlet in the Moravian region within what was once the Bohemian Lands, now the modern Czech Republic, or, if you prefer, Czechia. The archiepiscopal.
Off the Beaten Path: Tempesta di Mare’s A Czech Christmas
It was May 2018, early summer in the town of Kroměříž… Kroměříž is about 250 miles east of Prague and so postcard pretty that it’s been called the most beautiful historical city in the Czech.
Silvius Leopold Weiss Part 4
4. Weiss’ Ensemble Music, Reconstruction, and the Duets Themselves Only seventeen Weiss ensemble works remain today, though inventories list 70 concertos, trios and duets. For fifteen of these, only single lute parts remain, such as.
More on the Weiss Duets
Ric3. What Makes the Weiss Lute Duets Special What’s particularly fun about playing these duets with my duo partner is how music for two lutes pretty much doubles the compositional possibilities of what’s achievable in.