Category - Performance Practice

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Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society Turns 200
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PRJ Center Grant Recipients The Weckmann Project and Musica Nuova Reflect on Their Collaboration
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The Struggle of Harmony and Invention

Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society Turns 200

Claiming to be the oldest continuously performing orchestra in America, the Handel and Haydn Society celebrates 200 years this year. The Society gave the American premiere performances of Verdi’s Requiem in 1878 and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1879. The Society was created at the conclusion of the War of 1812, giving a performance of[…]

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PRJ Center Grant Recipients The Weckmann Project and Musica Nuova Reflect on Their Collaboration

The Weckmann Project and Musica Nuova were joint recipients of a 2014 Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research grant, which supported our presentation of two staged productions of Heinrich Schutz’s Christmas Oratorio. Nearly 300 audience members joined us on December 6 and 7, 2014 at Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Heights, where[…]

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The Struggle of Harmony and Invention

The concert was a joy from start to finish. Aisslinn is not just a gifted Baroque violinist playing with true style and power, but a great performer and communicator whose energy and passion for the music set the audience alight

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