On a special Labor Day edition of The Early Music Show broadcast back on September 4, 2017, I interviewed David McCormick, founder of the Charlottesville-based Early Music Access Project. The Project holds its annual fundraiser at Swannanoa Palace in Alton on Sunday, June 24 at 3 pm. This interview with David was my first chance […]
Early Music Show
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Early Music Show Goes Live with David McCormick
As the repertoire employed in the field of Early Music is centered in the past, one may think of it as “dead” in the sense some have expressed in regard to mainstream classical music. It’s old, it never makes it into the news cycle and thus it has no relevance to the world as it […]
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Masses from the Mysterious Master of the Polish Baroque, Bartholomiej Pekiel
During the transition from Renaissance to Baroque that began around 1600, contemporary musicians developed terms to capture the distinction — stile antico and stile moderno. To a date that runs surprisingly late into the seventeenth century, there were a number of composers that worked readily in both, and to that company belongs the little-known Polish […]
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Ah, Bach!
Why do our volunteers give up their time to present programs of carefully-selected music for you? Well, here’s a partial answer. Rob Nowicki was hosting “The Early Music Show” on August 8, 2011, and aired a particularly strong lineup of music from Telemann, Graun, Purcell…. and Bach. Ah, Bach! Rob aired Bach’s Cantata # 169 […]