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| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Christopher Manion |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,387 Words, 8,657 Characters |
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One of the most enduring features of the music scene in the past twenty years in America has been the growing popularity of "early music"--works from the era before Beethoven, before the modern orchestra and its techniques came into their own. As the contemporary world relies ever more on technology, sheer size, and organization, many people are drawn to the intimate works performed by smaller consorts and chamber orchestras on instruments of a character much more personal and, yes, quieter, than those used in classical music today.
Spurred on by a love of the genuine, a search for the "authentic original," musicologists and performers alike have been able to present magnificent renderings of works of centuries past with painstaking attention to detail; they aim at the most accurate presentation of the music as it was performed in its own era. In A...
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...the foundation for future accomplishments, all of which will appear to be quite effortless.
If the festival indeed follows that steady path, let us hope that the orchestra will soon record Bach's Orchestral Suites. A performance like the one in April will firmly establish it as an internationally acclaimed orchestra of great talent and leadership in the world of early music performance.
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