person of the week: Antoinette Lohmann

Baroque- genius on strings.
Antoinette Lohmann has such a sparkle.
really gifted musicians have that... a strength.
somehting that is learnt / grown during the long lonely hours of practising.
Honing your craft... a solitary road.. and then:
to perform Bach to a grateful audience.
The applause and smiles and gratitude is warming and provides comfort.

Well done Antoinette for pushing through: for being open to your (traveling) parents' musical influence and taking up the art of music-making.

Friday night: Green market Square was blessed with Baroque.

Music- Baroque

Perhaps the most celebrated aspect of the Baroque era was the grandiose style of music first introduced in Italy in the early seventeenth century and popularized by composers such as George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi.

While the church continued to support the musical arts, the Baroque age also produced a proliferation of secular music.

In addition, the period brought the introduction of such vocal forms as opera, oratorio, and cantata, as well as orchestral forms as the sonata, concerto, and overture.

As opera, in particular, became widespread in its popularity, the divas, virtuosos, and castrata of the age gained epic adoration from the masses.