Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...

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The Chatham Baroque ensemble includes Scott Pauley on theorbo (left); Patricia Halverson on viola da gamba (center); and Andrew Fouts on the baroque violin (right). On today's program: Point Park ...

The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...

Most of the period instruments played by members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra look perfectly familiar to modern audiences. The one likely exception is the theorbo, a 6-foot-long relative of ...

Things got a little crazy this morning on Classical 101. The concert, presented by Early Music in Columbus, will feature a potpourri of mad songs and instrumental selections conveying madness and ...

Richard Kolb has never met anyone in Beacon who owns a theorbo. Ditto for a 10-string Baroque guitar, but there could be a few lute owners, he says. Kolb also plays standard classical guitar, which he ...