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Harmonia for August 05, 2007
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "The Leipzig Job Ads"
Sometimes finding the right person at the right time to fill a job can be a challenge to say the least. But for the Leipzig town council near the beginning of the 1720's it was nothing short of a trial. You know of the eventual winner as Johann Sebastian Bach, but did you also know that he was considered part of the mediocre group of candidates? This week on Harmonia, we'll look at the men who were taken into consideration for the Leipzig Kantor's job. We'll also hear a new release from John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage series.
From the transcendent sounds of Anonymous 4, to the sublime realm of Chant, to the passion of an Italian Baroque violin sonata, Harmonia is drawing new listeners in unprecedented numbers to the world of Early Music.
Harmonia is a production of WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University's prestigious School of Music and the largest Early Music Institute in North America; with additional technical support from KOHM at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Bloomington's position as a center for Early Music research provides fertile ground for concert recordings and interviews with top performers and scholars in the field.
Indiana University's Thomas Binkley Archive of Early Music Recordings, an unmatched resource for rare, out-of-print, and historically important Early Music recordings, enriches Harmonia's musical offerings. Combining this unique collection of resources with commercial, private, and archival material, Harmonia host and producer Angela Mariani brings historically informed performance to today's listeners, adding evocative commentary to illustrate, inform, and entertain.
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