What is Early Music?
Early Music
is music from the mid 18th century and before, music from the Baroque, Renaissance, and Middle Ages. It is the most beautiful, enriching, exciting -- and ironically the freshest -- music you will ever hear performed by some of the best musicians anywhere.
Early Music is enchantment!
Welcome to Early MusiChicago -- your source for news and information about Early Music in the Chicago area and elsewhere.
Learn about Early Music at the Composers, Instruments, Genres, Organizations, Resources, and Publications pages.
Get to know area Early Music performers at the Musicians, Ensembles, People, PhotoAlbum, and Recordings pages.
For a complete listing of Early Music concerts, festivals, workshops, and other events, visit the Calendar and Events pages. Coming Soon:
Chicago Early Music Festival
Presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Office of Tourism, the first-ever CEMF, April 20-25, 2010, will feature free and ticketed performances; lectures and master classes; and other events. more...
The Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra, Jane Glover, conductor, will perform Mozart's Requiem.
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The Academy of Early Music Concert Series presents Duo fantaisie en Echo, Phillip Serna and Rachel Cama-Lekx, viola da gamba, performing a concert, "Le changé: The Baroque Transformation & the Varied Viol", featuring music by Schenck, Sainte-Colombe, Bach, Marais, and Abel. With Ed Parmentier, harpsichord.
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Music of the Baroque performs Handel's Acis and Galatea in a recorded concert from October 2009. Broadcast on WFMT Radio.
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The Bach and Beethoven Ensemble will perform a concert, "Delirium of Love", with works by Handel.
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Early Music Now presents Lipzodes performing a concert, "Guatemala 1600", featuring 16th century Guatemalan music.
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The Early Music Series at the Byron Colby Barn presents the Chicago Early Music Consort performing a concert, "A Medieval Tapestry".
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The Northwestern Baroque Music Ensemble, Stephen Alltop, conductor, will perform a concert of works by Biber.
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Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Barthold Kuijken, artistic director and flute soloist, will perform "A Classical Concert", with works by de St. Georges, Haydn, and Mozart.
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Visit the Early MusiChicago
Broadcasts
and
Calendar
pages for listings of upcoming early music broadcasts on radio and TV.
Shop for early instruments, sheet music, CDs and DVDs, and other items at the Businesses, Sheet Music, and Recordings, pages.
