Sarasota Orchestra Discoveries series concerts are intended to help new audiences become more comfortable with classical music programs and to allow longtime fans to rediscover music and composers ...

You’ve probably heard Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto (“La Primavera” in its original Italian) before. More than likely, you didn’t hear it on the radio or on Spotify or performed live, but you may have ...

As part of Baroque Spring, a month-long season of Baroque music and culture, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Vivaldi, beginning with the relationship between composer and his home town ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Allan Kozinn SOME people hate Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” for pretty much the same reasons others love it: it is an exceptionally vivid example of ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

East versus West. Turn on the nightly news, and you’ll be bombarded with it, the clash of cultures and civilisations that’s fuelled a billion narratives and seems to have existed since time began.

The masterpieces of musical genius Antonio Vivaldi, often referred to as the ‘red priest of Venice’ (for his flaming red hair), did not come about by chance, but were inspired in the true sense of the ...

As part of Baroque Spring, a month-long season of Baroque music and culture, Donald Macleod explores the sacred music of Vivaldi. For a small city, Venice in the 18th century was teeming with churches ...