David Raymond

For Baroque music lovers, Venice is famous not only for gondoliers, but also for great composers. One 17th-century Venetian composer who has gradually come into her own is Barbara Strozzi, whose music will be showcased in “Venice,” this Sunday’s concert by Pegasus Early Music. According to Pegasus Artistic Director and lutenist Deborah Fox, the well-connected […]

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s getting into the music of Dvoák in a big way this year. The RPO opened the season with the “New World” Symphony, and this Sunday, it opens the Sunday Matinees series at Hochstein Performance Hall with the Seventh Symphony — his most ambitious and perhaps greatest symphonic work. The program, conducted […]

Voices begins its tenth anniversary season this Sunday afternoon. Under the direction of Music Director William Weinert, Rochester’s professional chamber chorus will present a Renaissance-era program titled “Sing Out, My Tongue”. The main work, and the concert’s namesake, will be Josquin des Prés’ “Pange Lingua” Mass–a masterpiece of the Renaissance, but rarely heard in live […]

School’s back in session, and so is Rochester’s 2018-2019 concert season. Pegasus Early Music has established itself as a place where the cool kids of period-performance hang out, and for its opening concert this Sunday afternoon, they’ll bring several of these musicians together to perform “A Baroque Miscellany.” You’ll hear string instruments, flute, harpsichord, and […]

For its 2018-2019 season opener, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra follows the standard “rousing overture/concerto with big-name soloist/favorite Romantic symphony” template. Thankfully, it’s wonderfully curated by Music Director Ward Stare: the overture is Berlioz’s brilliant “Roman Carnival,” and the symphony is definitely a favorite: the “New World Symphony” of Dvorák (a composer who appears several times […]

Publick Musick’s concert next Wednesday night will bring together two musical glories: the church cantatas of J.S. Bach and the Craighead-Saunders Organ at Rochester’s Christ Church. This exact copy of a German baroque organ is not only spectacular-looking, it produces a perfect sound for the music of Bach. It will get a bit of a […]

The fireworks will not just be in the sky for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s outdoor concerts this week, which include two patriotic programs conducted by Ward Stare. On July 4, the RPO performs its annual free Independence Day salute on the Main Street Bridge, starting at 9 p.m.; and on Saturday, July 7, at 8 […]