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EMA Panel: The Future of Early Music in Higher Education

An Early Music America panel discussion at the 2011 Boston Early Music Festival with Paul Leenhouts and Richard Sparks (University of North Texas), Wendy Gillespie (Indiana University), Martin Pearlman (Boston University), and Ben Sosland (Juilliard). [Read more after the jump.]

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Voices from the 19th Century: Beethoven makes an Announcement

The Artaria publishing firm is responsible for sales of “Fidelio” arrangements. [Read more after the jump.]

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Video: Alamire Performs John Taverner

An excerpt from the motet “Dum transisset sabbatum.” [Watch after the jump.]

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Video: Tryptophan Hand Jive with Moira Smiley and VOCO

A Thanksgiving-related performance by an exciting American group. [Watch after the jump.]

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Harmonia Early Music: 700th Episode

A Harmonia milestone. [Read more after the jump.]

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Favorite Harmonia Episodes: Alfred C. Kinsey’s ‘Music and Love’

How do you write about the world’s most famous sex therapist and not even mention the word “sex”? [Read more after the jump.]

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Favorite Harmonia Episodes: ‘Music for the Infantas’

Spanish song and instrumental music at the courts of Louis XIII and XIV. [Read more after the jump.]

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Harmonia Podcast #117: Music for the Cathars and Victoria’s Lamentations

A musical history of Catharism and Tomas Luis de Victoria’s complete Lamentations of Jeremiah. [Read more and listen after the jump.]

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Harmonia Podcast #109: Les Voix Baroques and Raquel Andueza with Private Musicke

Impressions of two new recordings: Les Voix Baroques’ Carnival-themed “Humori,” and Private Musicke’s exploration of “Tres Libros de Musica” by Alonso Mudarra. [Read more and listen to the podcast after the jump.]

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The End of a Harmonia Season (2009-2010)

I’m on the verge of completing my fourth season as a writer for Harmonia. I shared the job with others during the first year and have been the sole writer ever since, providing me with the opportunity to see and have some control over the larger issues.

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