• HBCO: Back to Bach
  • HBCO: Back to Bach
  • HBCO: Back to Bach
  • HBCO: Back to Bach
  • HBCO: Back to Bach
  • HBCO: Back to Bach
  • HBCO: Back to Bach
  • The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra wraps up its season and salutes Arts First with a salvo of the last four magnificent Brandenburg Concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. We’ll start with the Third, which features a subset of the ensemble ̵ ...
  • The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and the Harvard University Choir combine for an afternoon of Bach at his most dynamic and energetic. Whether embodying the sacred world of his motets and cantatas, or the secular one of his celebrated Brandenburg ...
  • On November 6, join us on a journey through the wild and wonderful music of 17th and 18th-century Austria, where composers became fascinated with representing scenes from life in their compositions. Biber’s “Battalia” and Schmelzer& ...
  • Hailed by the London Independent as “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” and The New Yorker as “an expert in 18th-century style,” Nicholas McGegan McGegan website, music director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Bar ...
  • Lully, son of a working-class miller, was born in Florence, Italy. Lully had little education, but he learned basic techniques on the guitar, originally taught by a Franciscan friar of Florence. Later in France, he learned how to play the violin ...
  • For a long period, catgut was the most common material for the strings of harps, lutes, violins, and violas, as well as other stringed musical instruments, as well as older marching snare drums; however, most musical instruments produced today ...
  • I’m so excited to be starting in on the great St. John Passion of J.S. Bach! I’ve been wanting to perform this work ever since 1992, when as a young boy I went wandering in the forest one day. The pale sunlight seemed to retreat through t ...
The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra (HBCO) is a small chamber orchestra dedicated to bringing back to life the vivid rhetoric and dancing rhythms of baroque music.
The HARVARD BAROQUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (HBCO) is a small chamber orchestra dedicated to bringing back to life the vivid rhetoric and dancing rhythms of baroque music. It was founded by Dr. Murray Somerville (Gund University Organist and Choirmaster, 1990-2003) and baroqu ...
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Bach’s Brandenburgs
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Bach and His Worlds
The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and the Harvard University Choir combine for an afternoon of B ...
Musikalische Malerei
On November 6, join us on a journey through the wild and wonderful music of 17th and 18th-century Au ...