Just posted a new interview with Risa Browder over at the Washington Early Music Festival website. She specializes in historical performance on violin, viola and viola d’amore, is one of the co-founders of Modern Musick, and is on the faculty of the Peabody up in Baltimore.
What’s the difference between a violin and a viola d’samore?

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Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion is at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, through September 6.

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Cover Story: Master Bookbindings from the Collection is at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts through October 31.

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“Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection,” which features “some 50 paintings from the 14th through the 17th century by such celebrated artists as Taddeo Gaddi, Orcagna, Lorenzo Monaco, Fra Angelico, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Domenichino, Guercino, and Orazio Gentileschi,” is on display at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, through […]

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Titian’s Diana and Actaeon are at the Aberdeen Art Gallery in Scotland through June 27.

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Just posted a new interview with Philip Cave (executive director of Chorworks, and music director of DC’s All Souls Episcopal Church) over at the Washington Early Music Festival website.
He’s got some really interesting observations on vocal music:

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