For last weeks performances of Charpentier’s Medee the Band were using what is now known as French baroque pitch where the A is tuned to 392 a whole step lower than today’s standard for modern orchestra’s of A=440. For most of the repertoire the Band perform we use the pitch reference of A415 but in [...]
I was delighted the other day when baroque cellist Jennifer Morsches stopped by the office. Jennifer, an American musician who has been living in London for the past 15 years, is in Chicago working with the Band for our Medee project with Chicago Opera Theater. For the opera Jennifer is playing on a bass violin [...]
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