Donald Satz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Deryk Barker writes:
>
>>Modern symphony orchestras tend to get their knuckles rapped when they
>>stray into period-performance territory.
>
>Rapped by whom? Period instrument fans already rap these orchestras for
>not giving performances of Baroque music, for totally neglecting over 100
>years of music composition.

But when they do they get criticised for playing on modern instruments.

>Besides, there's no law against providing each orchestra member a "period"
>instrument; I assume that professional musicians have the ability to learn
>to play one.

I know very, very few musicians who can successfully shift from modern to
period style and certainly not within the same concert.  There is more to
it that just a shorter bow and no chin rest.

Deryk Barker
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