SalonEra considers the legacies of blind and visually-impaired historical composer-performers like Jacob van Eyck, Turlogh O’Carollan, and others and talks with vision-impaired harpsichordist & violinist Albano Berberi, lutenist Lucas Harris, and Braille music engraver Kathleen Cantrell.
Together with conductor Anthony Trecek-King and ethnomusicologist Gibb Schreffler, SalonEra probes the history and evolution of sea shanties and related work songs from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Featuring live concert recordings by Seán Dagher with Les Délices and more.
Guests Kim Gruenwald and Dominic Giardino consider the music and sounds that reverberated across the western frontier as French, English, new American settlers, and Native Americans pushed westward in the decades following the Revolutionary War.
Guests Yiheng Yang, Aisslinn Nosky, Mark Edwards, and Shelby Yamin join SalonEra for music & conversation centering late-18th century female pianist-composers Marianne Mozart, Jane Mary Guest, Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen, and others.
