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Harmonia for March 09, 2008
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
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Today's Highlight: "Buxtehude and Suitors"
A job offer can mean a long and arduous decision for the candidate. It can also be quick and simple if the perks turn out to be less than attractive. Such was the case with Dietrich Buxtehude's search for a successor. On Harmonia this week we'll look at the men who applied to succeed him and we'll listen to a new release of Machaut and Solage by the ensemble Gothic Voices.
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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