If you’ve ever doubted that it is indeed good to be the king, consider Louis XIV of France, whose job perks included a staff of 30 to 100 musicians who followed him everywhere he went in the course of a day. And I do mean everywhere: Louis’s arising, dressing, promenading and doing of other kingly […]
Pegasus Early Music
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Virtuoso vespers
Deborah Fox, Pegasus Early Music’s artistic director, says it has long been a dream of hers that the organization perform Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, a work she has loved since she first encountered it a couple of decades or so ago as a lute student. This weekend, Fox’s dream comes true at the Hochstein […]
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Concert Review: “Pepys’ Pajamas” by Pegasus Early Music
Literature and music commingled pleasingly in the most recent Pegasus Early Music concert, given last Sunday afternoon at Downtown United Presbyterian Church. The program, “Pepys’ Pajamas,” was inspired by the Restoration-era diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703). An ambitious politician and general man-about-London, Pepys kept a diary for less than a decade (1660 to 1669). But it […]
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Early musick for an eager publick
When Deborah Fox first decided to study lute in Rochester in the 1980’s, she had a tough time of it and ended up studying privately. Fast forward a couple of decades or so, and Deborah Fox is pleasantly surprised to find herself not only a busy professional lutenist, but also the director of a very […]
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A wrinkle in time
Rochester’s newest concert series offers gentle music from a violent age
