NEWS
August 15, 2004
Michael Eagan, 55, a classical musician and composer who co-founded Musica Angelica, a highly regarded early music group based in Los Angeles, died of an apparent heart attack last week at his home in Los Angeles. His body was found Wednesday but the coroner's office had not yet determined the day he died. Widely considered one of the foremost lute players in the country, he performed and recorded with a variety of chamber orchestras, including San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the Boston Baroque Orchestra.
NEWS
By Phil Greenfield and Phil Greenfield,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | April 15, 2004
"It is one of the laws of nature that we often feel nearer to remote generations than to those which immediately precede us," wrote composer Igor Stravinsky, and this weekend Annapolis' cultural scene will attest to his wisdom. Tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, Chamber Music Annapolis and Historic Annapolis Foundation are co-sponsoring the first Maryland Early Music Festival, which will be held at sites throughout downtown Annapolis as a spring celebration of the arts in the capital city.
NEWS
April 15, 2004
Tomorrow, 8 p.m. St. Mary's College Choir, Larry Edward Vote, conductor Heinrich Schutz: Musikalische Exequien St. Anne's Church Admission: $24 adults/ $18 students and seniors Saturday, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. (45-minute programs) Sarabande: 18th Century Oboe Band The Brice House Admission: Free Saturday, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. (45-minute programs) David and Ginger Hildebrand: "Colonial Music for the First President" Annapolis City Hall Admission: Free Saturday, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. (45-minute performances)
ENTERTAINMENT
By Susan King and Susan King,LOS ANGELES TIMES | January 8, 2004
HOLLYWOOD -- If you're among those whose holiday bounty included either a DVD player or DVDs -- or, just as likely, if you're hankering to exchange those Brother Bear fluffy moose slippers for some movies on disc -- know that you have options beyond hot holiday titles like Finding Nemo and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Two vintage musicals that recently made their DVD debuts may fit the cinephile bill. Singin' in the Rain illustrated in high comedic terms the problems moviemakers had when Hollywood switched from silent films to sound in the late 1920s.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Tim Smith and Tim Smith,Sun Music Critic | March 2, 2003
Given a lineage that includes two Holy Roman Emperors -- Charlemagne on his father's side, Leopold II on his mother's -- it's fitting that eminent Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt made his reputation as a ground-breaking explorer of the noblest music from the distant past. And those all over the world involved in the early music movement now can trace their artistic lineage to him. But that tells only part of the story about Harnoncourt. You can hear more of it this week when the Washington Perform-ing Arts Society presents the Vienna Philharmonic, one would argue the greatest orchestra in the world, in its first appearances in 10 years at the Kennedy Center.
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By Dan Rodricks | February 12, 2001
LOCAL MEMBERS of the Piano Technicians Guild, who 13 years ago logged 700 hours rebuilding that old Stieff baby grand for the shockingly talented baby pianist Jermaine Gardner - he was only 4 at the time - will be pleased to know that both are thriving. The piano fills a third of the front room of the Gardner house, off The Alameda in Northeast Baltimore, and the other night Jermaine sat behind it to play Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18, the allegro. He performed it wonderfully. I felt lucky to have been there.