Music of the Baroque on Period Instruments
2009-2010 Season:
Purcell's London
350th Birthday Celebration for Henry Purcell
Spring 2010
Americans in Paris
The American Abassadors to France, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, enjoyed spectacular chamber music during their time in Paris. Join us to hear what they heard!
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John Burkhalter, lecturer, recorder, studied the performance of early music at the New England Conservatory and the performance of baroque music at Harvard with Dutch recorder virtuoso and scholar Frans Bruggen. With "The Practitioners of Musick," he performs 18th century music of Great Britain, Ireland, Colonial and early Federal America, New France and the Vice-Royalties of New Spain and Peru. He has lectured extensively on the ancient musical cultures of the Americas and on the cultural life of Colonial societies in the New World.