{"id":2117276,"date":"2025-10-26T23:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2117276"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:17:30","slug":"what-did-music-sound-like-in-the-1700s-find-out-from-portlands-newest-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-did-music-sound-like-in-the-1700s-find-out-from-portlands-newest-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"What did music sound like in the 1700s? Find out from Portland\u2019s newest orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Music director and founder Anna Pearlman plays first violin in North Star Baroque at a rehearsal at Woodfords Congregational Church on Friday. The musicians play compositions of the 1600s and 1700s on the instruments that were around at that time or made in that style. (Brianna Soukup\/Staff Photographer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PORTLAND \u2014 Strictly speaking, Anna Pearlman\u2019s violin doesn\u2019t count as Baroque.<\/p>\n

The instrument dates to 1776. But the Baroque period in music is generally defined as roughly 1600 to 1750, when composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi were on the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still really, really old,\u201d she said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Pearlman herself is just 38. But she has a lifelong interest in music, and she grew up listening to her dad rehearsing the harpsichord as she fell asleep. When Martin Pearlman founded Boston Baroque in 1973, it was the first such orchestra in North America. Today, many cities have ensembles or orchestras dedicated to the music and instruments of that era.<\/p>\n

And now, Portland does too. Anna Pearlman started North Star Baroque last year and it will launch its second season with a concert at Woodfords Congregational Church on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no sound quite like it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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