Kristina Herrick
Classical Music HostKristina Herrick was an on-air host for FM89's Clearly Classical and the Traffic and Music Manager for the station. She retired in 2015. An expert in early music of the pre-Barqoue era, Kristina was also the host of the award winning program In the Mode. She is a talented musician who plays the gamba and is a member of the board of directors of the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concert Series.
Kristina traces In the Mode’s roots to her early days of studying voice, when she discovered that her own was best suited to this type of music. “I wanted to expose listeners to the new recordings of early music that are available,” she said. It’s not necessarily for those schooled in music, she noted. “There has been a lot of research done, using literature and paintings, to figure out what the pieces would have sounded like in their own time. It’s a lot of fun—and a lot of listening—putting the music into a coherent show with a focus.” It’s obvious that she enjoys it, and the accolades from listeners prove that they love it too.
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This week we will hear music played on an instrument that developed from the vihuela or Spanish guitar, it has 6 strings and frets, but is bowed, and held…
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The Lute was a most useful instrument in early times, it was important to have a lutenist at court to entertain, either to accompany singers telling…
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We don’t usually hear music by Bach on In the Mode, he is just a little bit too young, but next time we will, because the recording featured is called…
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This time on In the Mode, hear music by Heinrich Schütz. He "created a new style of music after studying in Venice with Gabrieli and Monteverdi, a…
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I will feature early German composers on the next two programs of In the Mode, there aren’t as many known German composers of the Renaissance as there are…
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The consort of viols called Parthenia is featured next time on In the Mode, an ensemble in residence at Corpus Christi Church in New York. The CD featured…
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In the Mode will feature the lute---a bunch of lutes next time, voices too. We usually think of the lute as a solo instrument, or accompanying a singer,…
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Music of the Trecento next time on In the Mode. 14th century Italy was a strange time of contrasts-- wars, the black plague and the schism in the church…
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Wildcat Viols will play for us next time on In the Mode. Members of the trio are three of San Francisco bay area’s favorite early string specialists,…
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This week on In the Mode, some especially beautiful choral music from the 16th to the 21st centuries. We will hear eight completely different settings on…