Musicians of the Old Post Road

Film maker Bob Giordani has produced a well-crafted documentary about the ensemble's history and sources of inspiration. Complete with interviews and performance excerpts.

The reviews are in!

“The Bohemians” are a hit. Read the review of our Worcester performance on April 20 in the Boston Musical intelligencer:

Bohemians trivia:
 

Did you know that Mozart conducted a wildly successful performance of a new symphony, only afterward revealing that the composer was Gyrowetz?

...that Dussek was the first pianist to face the instrument sideways at concerts so audiences could see his hands?

Štepán's piano concertos and sonatas made use of innovative compositional techniques later employed by Mozart and Beethoven.

On March 8, The ensemble brought an outreach performance to 4th graders of the JFK School in Jamaica Plain. The presentation focused on the musical atmosphere of the court of Frederick the Great, the flute-playing monarch of the enlightenment who composed music for his instrument and engaged the finest musicians for the nearly weekly concerts held at his court.

As many of our concert-goers are aware, every season Musicians of the Old Post Road researches and performs musical works that have been lost to audiences for centuries. This work involves the procurement of copies of the original source material and, more often than not, transcription of the scores to a more readable, practical modern edition for the performers.

Many of our audience members have asked us about this process, so we thought we would describe in detail how the cantata Amor di che tu voi by Giovanni Lulier (which we performed on our Roman Handel program) was procured, transcribed, and edited.

On May 13 the ensemble was featured on 99.5 All Classical WGBH's Live from Fraser show. The ensemble performed a quartet by Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, a cello sonata by Raynor Taylor, and a Paris Quartet by Georg Philipp Telemann. Brian McCreath hosted the show and engaged the musicians in a discussion of the music, period instruments and the ensemble's history and future plans. The show is now available on demand on the WGBH website.