The harpsichord and its repertoire can make for a sensual, intimate avenue of aural escape. That takes not only a sensitive player, but an alluring instrument and the right acoustics -- all present on ...

Byron Will smoothes a corner in a harpsichord he's building. A warmer in foreground contains animal skin glue that holds some pieces of the instrument together. (Janet Goetze) has been making ...

Working in his studio, Kevin Fryer listens to CDs of lute and harpsichord music, letting his thoughts sail away to the Dutch masters and places like Antwerp in the 17th century. In a second-story ...

Christina Edelen brings a depth of experience, knowledge, and virtuosity to keyboard performance and teaching in a career spanning three decades in the United States and Europe. On organ, harpsichord, ...

The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green on the stage wasn’t imposing. Beyond the first few rows of Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday, the delicate sound it made was faint ...

THERE WILL BE an allday workshop on baroque harpsichord music in Bray on Wednesday July 6. The event is being organised by a local music group, Bray Baroque, and will feature masterclasses and ...

John Phillips is an imposing giant of a man -- a master craftsman and amateur musician -- with an unusual creative streak. He makes harpsichords modeled on French, Flemish and Italian instruments from ...

Mahan Esfahani says the harpsichord is as relevant today as it was when Bach and Vivaldi were playing it, and his interview with NPR's Robert Siegel this past June left no doubt. It's not every day ...

Early Music is a stimulating and richly illustrated journal that is unrivalled in its field. Founded in 1973, it remains the journal for anyone interested in early music and how it is being ...

Autumn is a season for contrasts. Frosty nights and cold rains are tempered by mild, sunny days, and trees explode into a crazy quilt of color, to be replaced all too soon by the drab gray coat of ...

This fall, the College of Music community welcomes three fresh faculty faces to the fold, as the musicology, voice and keyboard departments fill seats vacated by the college’s three newest professors ...