When Giuseppe Torelli made the journey from his birthplace of Verona to Bologna in the late 17th century, the trumpet was still seen as something of a brash outsider, suitable for military displays ...

William Christie is as busy as ever in a season celebrating his 80th birthday, conducting, playing the harpsichord, ...

Trott is not the oldest person to earn an undergraduate degree from William & Mary. Elsie C. Woodward ’21, P ’91, P ’96, was ...

Some are old, dating back to the 1700s; most are copies of period instruments, made using 18th-century techniques. “We try to copy the sounds from that time, to make the music we do – music by ...

old instruments and being faithful I think to performance practice.” Teaching the next generation Christie has become an elder statesman of the movement highlighting 17th and 18th century ...

old instruments and being faithful I think to performance practice.” Christie has become an elder statesman of the movement highlighting 17th and 18th century performance practice. Since 2007 ...

bring together echoes of 18th-century Europe and timeless folklore in a program as fluid and unpredictable as the ocean itself. With “The Mermaid,” they conjure “pirates, fearsome storms ...

And the instrument means a lot to people ... who moved the piano to rockstar status during the last half of the 18th century. Mozart was a child prodigy. He was considered one of the best ...

Sometimes, as in 18th-century Europe, powers balanced against ... After 1945, these instruments and the order they upheld allowed the world’s powers to manage many of their antagonisms without ...

The journey begins in the museum’s library, where centuries-old sculptures from the 16th to 18th centuries ... complemented by 13 ritual instruments from the 20th century once used by the ...