By DOROTHY ANDRIES, Wilmette Life Baroque — it’s always new, despite its vintage and venerable status. On June 17, the Baroque Band displayed to the audience in the Ravinia Festival’s Martin Theatre just exactly why that repertoire, when done well, falls so easily on the ears. Of course, it didn’t hurt that they presented an [...]
Archive | June, 2009
Baroque Band closes season with Purcell and the best work Handel never wrote
By Lawrence A. Johnson The variety of music in Chicago never ceases to amaze. In a 24-hour period this week one can catch an edgy 1988 opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage and experience a good chunk of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, the oldest English-language opera still in the regular repertoire. Baroque Band did the honors for [...]
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