Haedong Yonggungsa Temple, Busan South Korea, a country of 51 million, is west of Japan. According to archeological evidence of tool...

Kyoto North of Saipan, Japan consists of four major Islands, the largest being Honshu where the capital Tokyo is located....

Saipan is a small island in the western Pacific Ocean,1,500 miles south of Japan. There is archeological evidence of habitation by the...

ALTO WORLD - CANADA Before the arrival of European settlers in what is now known as Canada, it populated by indigenous tribes, each with...

ALTO WORLD This blog briefly describes the history and culture of each of the countries participating in the ALTO program. Starting with...

Tour of Austria and Italy - 2017 Program: Bach - Brandenburg 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y4z3xsM7mM Vivaldi - Concerto Grosso...

Program: Vivaldi - Concerto Grosso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKDzek3VOvY Bach - Brandenburg 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJvPA...

Hesperion XXI Music from the early Baroque Program: Monteverdi - Toccata, L'Orfeo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqehBLTqtPY Antonio...

Academy of Ancient Music https://www.aam.co.uk/we-are-aam/ Program: Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

L'Arpeggiata https://www.arpeggiata.com/about-arpeggiata Program: Antonio Soler - Fandango SOLER ANTONIO 1729 1783 Fandango L'Arpeggiata,...

Voices of Music https://www.voicesofmusic.org/ Program: Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smZ...

The next few posts are all hypothetical 'concert programs', each by a well known period instrument ensemble. Each post includes music...

The following videos describe the most frequently used keyboard, string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments used during the...

“Slaves Carrying a Sedan Chair' (Palaquin), Brazil, c.1760 Spain - Nueva España, and Portugal - Brasil Colonial, introduced European...

Vauxhall Gardens, one of several pleasure gardens in London, was open to the public as a commercial venue that hosted an array of...

Music for the Royal Fireworks On 27th April, 1749, Handel conducted the first performance of his 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' in Green...

J S Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.5 - Allegro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtIJvA2f1U Georg Philipp Telemann was the most prolific...

J S Bach is the best known composer from the Baroque period. His prolific output includes works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo...

'The Delights of Life', Watteau, c.1720. Chamber Music Although Rameau dominated music in France in the 18thc, there were other well...

Jean-Philippe Rameau was the best known composer in France during the 18thc. He composed the music for 20+ operas, and chamber music for...