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The Sandwich Arts Alliance Village Concert Series will present a musical collaboration between the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and the Ferris Choral Fellows at Sandwich Historic Town Hall on Saturday,
The Lakes Area Music Festival continues its Winter Series with a baroque recital at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20 at the Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts in Brainerd.
Three accomplished musicians will perform.
summary Today's pianists are expected to play music of three centuries on a single instrument: Steinway's design from the late 1800s. Other types of pianos, such as Mozart's Walter or Chopin's Pleyel, are increasingly being copied or restored, but they are played almost exclusively by specialists in "Historical Performance." David Breitman has been introducing Oberlin Conservatory students to historical keyboards since 1991, and in this book he focuses on the music he cares about most deeply and the problems he has found most perplexing. He begins by acknowledging the dilemma of co...