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Author: cigleris
Date: 2004-03-11 20:35
Just a simple question. Are there any period instrument orchestras in the States or has playing period instruments never really caught on over there i'd be really interested to know.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-03-12 16:36
There are a few. Their size and permanence vary depending on their location/funding/etc. There is a small orchestra here in Minnesota (the Lyra Concert), and then in Boston there is Boston Baroque, and both focus mainly on Baroque music. I'm really not sure about Classic period orchestras or early Romantic ones. I know that Tafelmusik (Toronto?) does occasionally record Mozart, but don't know if they head over into Schubert/Rossini/etc.
Katrina
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-03-12 16:46
A related question is, do the US conservatoires teach period instrument playing? I understand that such courses are readily available in the London schools, see for example http://www.ram.ac.uk/departments/index.html and click on historical performance.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-03-12 17:06
Apollo's Fire in Cleveland
Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco
Regrards,
Mary
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Author: paulwl
Date: 2004-03-13 01:12
Interesting how instruments and playing styles from 400 years ago are less hopelessly antiquated than those 100, 75 or 50 years old. I wonder what a sociologist would make of all this. If you networked it right, you could probably get more of a reputation playing a boxwood clarinet with 2 keys on it than you could playing a big-bore Selmer.
All in all, though, I don't suspect there's as much interest in period music in the USA as elsewhere. We are a fundamentally ahistorical culture.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-03-13 04:31
Apollo's Fire is led by Jeannette Sorrel (sp??) who graduated from Oberlin with a Master's. There aren't many Master's degrees available from Oberlin, but Historical Performance is one.
Katrina
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-03-13 09:01
In England it is now unusual to hear baroque music played by a large orchestra. Either it is played on "authentic" instruments, or by a small band using modern instruments played in an "authentic" style.
Is this not the case in the USA? Is it still possible to hear, for example, Brandenburg concertos played by the massed forces of the NY Phil?
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Author: DougR
Date: 2004-03-13 15:17
I just Googled 'period instruments' and came up with the link, below, which takes you to an exhaustive worldwide alphabetical list of period instrument ensembles. Some of the entries are incomplete except for the name of the ensemble, but a random stroll through the "b's" yielded Joshua Rivkin's Bach Ensemble, the early music ensemble run by Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University, the Hanover Ensemble and some others in the US that I'd never heard of.
http://gfhandel.org/bleissa/pipe/
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