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Baroque Music for Christmas

By Bill Snyder | December 11, 2019

Deborah Fox

NYS Baroque performs ‘A Baroque Noel’ directed by noted lutenist Paul Odette. Performances take place in Syracuse and Ithaca with choral music and period instruments. Artistic Director Deborah Fox joins us to talk about the program, Paul Odette, and one of her favorite instruments, the theorbo.

Photo credit: NYS Baroque

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