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November 2016

     
    Nov 18, 2016

    Asia Tour 2016: South Korea

    By John Abberger, oboe

    After two days of rehearsal we performed our first concert on the tour on Sunday, November 12 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. The two days of rehearsal in China were grueling but necessary for several reasons.  In the first place, we have not performed Bach: The Circle of Creation since we first mounted it in April 2015, or more than eighteen months ago, and there is general agreement that Circle of Creation is the most difficult memorization feat that we have tackled to date, owing to the complexity of Bach’s music.

    Nov 15, 2016

    A Chat with violinist Cristina Zacharias

    Our upcoming concert series A Grand Tour of Italy, which features the Tafelmusik solo concerto debut of our own Cristina Zacharias, transports you to seventeenth century Italy, highlighting Italian composers and the violin. The Italians really embraced the violin — instrument makers, violinists, and composers: some would say this really is where the violin was born.

    Nov 13, 2016

    Asia Tour 2016: Tafelmusik visits Shanghai

    By Michelle Odorico, violin
     
    Nov 7, 2016

    Further Listening - Let Us All Sing!

    by Ivars Taurins, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Director

    If you enjoyed our concert program Let Us All Sing!, featuring Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, and Sherezade Panthaki, soprano, Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone, and Philippe Gagné, tenor, I encourage you to explore some of the following:

    Nov 5, 2016

    Memories of the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir

    By Peter Mahon, countertenor

    As the longest serving member of the choir (hands up all those who remember me from the 1980s!), I have been asked to write about my memories of the choir over the last 35 years. As you might imagine, there are many from which to choose over that length of time. The problem is to decide which ones to talk about.

    Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir