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In the late Eighties, when walking through the gorge was her regular commute to work, Betsy noticed some stakes in the ground.

Although I have a Windows partition installed on my laptop, using it means rebooting the computer and, inevitably, running into some rage-inducing reminder of why I do not use Windows.

Impedance matching is the idea that if you want to deliver maximum power to a load, the amount that the load “pushes back” on the power source should be equal to (the complex conjugate of) the amount the rest of the circuit pushes back.

When Franz Josef Haydn received a letter from Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, inviting him to write six symphonies for the orchestra Bologne conducted in Paris, the offer must have seemed like a dispatch from a different planet.

Youth is a turbulent time; and Franz Schubert, who died at the age of 31, spent most of his short time on Earth in its grasp.

Giuseppi Tartini was, to put it lightly, a curious character.

Like Corelli, Luigi Boccherini found his way to a career as a composer through his virtuoso playing.

On a program of Baroque music, the royal patrons of the composers involved often play as large a part in the story of a work as do the composers themselves.

The most enduring friendships are often the ones that pass a litmus test of awkwardness right at the start.

“We had,” wrote Robert Schumann of the 1837-1838 winter concert season, “four evenings and twenty numbers, among which the brilliants of first water were Beethoven’s quartets in E-flat major (op. 127) and C-sharp minor (op. 131), the grandeur of which no…

“From time to time, an artist’s eternal aesthetic investigations into the evolution of humanity in the universe can encounter detours when it is necessary to search for light in times of great divisions,” wrote David Rosenboom in 2018.

The music of Pavel Haas belongs to a large body of work by European Jewish composers of the 20th century whose body of work was cut short by death in concentration camps, and surviving works have been pulled out of obscurity only with difficulty and dedic…

The idea of nationalism as a driving force for art can and should elicit a mixed reaction from modern audiences.

At thirty-two years old, Ludwig van Beethoven decided once and for all not to take his own life.

Max Bruch might have had some sharp words about tonight’s programming.

If the social scene of this concert has thus far seemed somewhat incestuous (with the exception of Purcell and Behn, who were prevented from entering the social milieu of the others by untimely demise and gender, respectively) then we must start by situat…

Handel’s warm reception in England in 1710 showed how enthusiastically the public was to embrace “the dear Saxon” as the preeminent English composer.