September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Some opera houses stage modern takes on operas written long ago; actors wear jeans and sets are spare.
The Boston Early Music Festival will have none of that.
Working in the tradition of historically re-creating early music by performing with appropriate instruments and performance styles, the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) prides itself on “unearthing musical gems from the distant past and presenting their first modern performances.”1
The biennial festival—held for a week in June every other year—aims to fulfill what music critic Andrew Porter described in ...
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