Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * The life of painter Artemisia Gentileschi was so […]
Author Archive | Heidi Waterman
The Burgundian School and the Order of the Golden Fleece
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece is […]
From Haiti and Back Again: The Travels of Lisette
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * “Lisette quitté la plaine” (Lisette has left the […]
Dark Dreams: Women on the Edge
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * Until fairly recently, women’s roles in European society were […]
The First Lutheran Oratorio: Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * Dieterich Buxtehude needs no introduction to early music […]
William Lawes’ Consort Setts
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * While we do not have an exact date […]
Charles Burney and A General History of Music
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * “Um…Charles who?” Okay, he may not be the […]
You can never have too many Johanns
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * During the Baroque, it’s undeniable that an enormous […]
You say Trecento, I say Ars Nova…
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * Last week, we looked at the Italian side […]
A Taste of the Trecento
Each week , we’re presenting a tiny taste of the BFX—an amuse-bouche for the upcoming Festival feast! * * * * * The Trecento—short for “milletrecento” (1300)—refers to the fourteenth […]