The Dryden Ensemble continued its season this past weekend with a concert commemorating the 400th anniversary of English composer John Dowland’s death and the birthday of Austrian Franz Schubert.
A chitarrone is a kind of extended lute where it has bass strings, enormously long, connected to the basic lute body. How it’s used: It was an instrument that was invented for this music. It has no ...
Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...
LATEST musi-cal sensation in town: The Aguilar Lute Quartet. About a year ago, Senor Segovia arrived with his guitar and his footstool and became one of the ornaments of our concert halls. His manager ...
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said the anthology has been valued at £214,200 and contains some 320 pieces by composers such as English musician John Dowland, a brother of ...