James Tyler, a maestro of the ancient lute who resuscitated centuries-old and largely forgotten European music through his work on recordings, concerts and television soundtracks, died Nov. 23 at a ...

This weekend, for one day only, the elegant simplicity of the light-filled University of Houston Chapel will be transformed into a sonic museum. That is how Deborah Dunham likes to describe the work ...

Houston Early Music's season opening concert features two of the Renaissance era's most important instruments: the organ and the cornetto. Acclaimed as the “Orfeo of the Cornetto,” Bruce Dickey ...

Members of Early Music Princeton (EMP), directed by harpsichordist Wendy Young, perform vocal and instrumental repertoire spanning the centuries from Medieval and Renaissance to High Baroque, with a ...

A length of shiny metal, curled back on itself into an oblong whorl, ending in a flared bell. A mouthpiece. Some round, buttonlike keys on top. We all know what a trumpet is. Duh. But that trumpet, ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Get ready to take opera, very nearly, from the top. “Alcina,” which the Boston Early Music Festival will bring to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center beginning June 23, comes from an ...

Joel Spears has long wanted to celebrate and perform the music of brothers William and Henry Lawes, English composers of the 17th century. So Spears, artistic director of the Early Music Series in ...