In the 400th anniversary year of the death of Byrd, who is called by some the “father of British music,” Seibert takes a look at the late Renaissance composer’s life and music.
by Peter Tracy “A language is a dialect with an army and navy.” — popularized by Max Weinreich Writing history means investigating connections: between ideas […]
by Peter Tracy “Peace Shall Be Her First Glad Ringing”[1] “Our bell, her metal voice devoting Alone to grave, eternal things, Shall ever feel, while […]
by George S. Bozarth Co-Artistic Director, Musique du Jour Presents The path-breaking Nannette Streicher, née Stein, who was born in Augsburg in southern Germany in […]
by Peter Tracy The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel 1559 Overly specific conjectures about the musical traditions of the past should always […]
by Peter Tracy A 1558 Ottoman miniature depicting an Ottoman official registering Christian boys for the devsirme The Ottoman Empire lasted over six centuries, from […]
by Peter Tracy Minstrels in Herat 1973 In early 2001, just before the American-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were in almost full control of […]
by Peter Tracy Watercolor of the Vienna State Operas opening concert When the Vienna State Opera opened in 1869, its first concert featured Mozart’s Don […]
Fred Hauptman Reminiscences on Early Music Seattle board member and music director Fred Hauptman by his quarrelsome and devoted friend Theodore Deacon My first meeting […]
by Mauricio Roman Opera was born in Florence among the circle known as the Florentine Camerata, a group of artists who experimented with rediscovering the […]
By Mauricio Roman In the early 1600s, Florence witnessed two very talented women artists: Francesca Caccini (1687-1641) and Artemisia Gentilieschi (1693-1656). Francesca was a composer, […]
by Mauricio Roman On February 27, we presented a great selection of works from Spain, beautifully rendered by Accademia del Piacere. One reason to focus […]
By Mauricio Roman This year’s celebration of Venice’s well-known carnival, which ended this week, was steeped in melancholy feelings in this time of isolation, social […]
By Mauricio Roman For this year’s celebration of St. Valentine, we will consider the relation between love and jealousy. Since antiquity, erotic love has been […]
April 3, 1930 – January 29, 2021 Elizabeth “Betty” Swift passed away peacefully with her family around her on January 29 in Seattle, Washington after […]
By Mauricio Roman This 13th century sequence has been rendered into music by more than one hundred composers, among which Pergolesi’s composition stands out for […]
By Gus Denhard Alice Smith died in October 2019 after enjoying a multi-faceted 40 year relationship with the early music community in Seattle. Her generous […]