The ensemble L’Arpeggiata — which offers a blend of Baroque and folk, scholarship and improvisation — plays the Library of Congress on Monday night. On ionarts.com, Charles T. Downey interviews the group’s founder, Christina Pluhar. A notable quote: “I in general like to work with non-classical singers, because they communicate the text much more intensely than classical singers. They are storytellers, and this is something you can find in sources, that emphasis on bringing the text alive, but it is a practice that has changed a lot in the style of vocal education in recent centuries.”...
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