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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-13 03:54:47
“Air: Heavenly Baroque Christmas,” an offering of Musicians of the Old Post Road, sounded first-rate. Christmas spirit bubbled from the texts in Worcester and Boston over the weekend. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2022-12-08 16:53:10
Musicians of the Old Post Road in the Gloucester Meetinghouse (Unitarian Universalist Church) Candle
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-12-18 23:53:54
MOPR (Susan Wilson photo) Lovers of classical music can be forgiven for dreading the Christmastide. Most presenters, especially the big ones, peddle predictable holidays classics—sometimes beautiful, sometimes bland—often overplayed. Musicians of the Old Post Road (MOPR) leads a small number of ensembles bucking this trend. They simply insist on maintaining the same philosophy that informs their other concerts, by offering energetic, committed, historically informed performances of beautiful and impeccably crafted, yet often overlooked repertoire, curated into compelling thematic programs. This year’s “Christmas in the New World” again made their case. Old Post Road founders Daniel Ryan and Suzanne Stumpf described how this show continues their season’s investigation of cross-cultural influence through “Musical Migrations,” which explore “the lively, colorful, and expressive music composed for the Christmas season in some of the major cultural centers of New Spain: Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala” and celebrate the diversity within even this small, essentially foreign, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-04-21 04:46:48
300 Years Later, Ristori Restored
Sarah Darling, one of the gang of seven Beginning Friday at Old South Church, seven Musicians of the Old Post Road gather to revive some notes that haven’t been heard much in the last 300-odd years with the regional premiere of Nice e Tirsi, a passionate and fascinating cantata written in 1749 by the little-known Giovanni Alberto Ristori, and restored, from the manuscript, by the group. Over the years, the physical condition of the manuscript for Nice e Tirsi at the Sachische Landesbibliothek in Dresden, Germany had deteriorated, resulting in extensive ink bleed-through. The library’s color reproduction made deciphering easier, allowing the black notes on one side of the page to distinguish themselves from the “brown” printing-through. The business of score preparation involves entering the whole work into music notation software as a first step, and then delving into specific editorial decisions. This all happens months before the first rehearsal, […]
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