Baroque Festival

[Avery Todd]

Hi Fred,

   Some comments:
.
1. The triple _is_ going to be 3 harpsichords, not pianos.
2. Thankfully, the lights in our new building generate negligible
   heat on stage.
3. Believe me, I _am_ counting my blessings (not having to tune for
   all this.) :-)

Avery

>>    For those of you interested in HT's, I just thought I'd post
>> something that, to me, is unbelievable.
>>    Starting this Saturday, this festival goes for abut a week
>> and is primarily being done by the Houston Symphony. Composers
>> such as Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Purcell, Telemann and Corelli all
>> have works being performed.
>>    What I find hard to understand is that all the concerts with
>> the Symphony people are performed in ET and at A-442, their
>> standard pitch. This means that for a triple concerto they're
>> doing, I'm going to have to raise ours to stabilize it so that
>> the symphony tuner won't have to fight that when he's tuning the
>> 3 together. :-(
>>    I know some might just say, so.....? But I can't believe
>> they're doing a Baroque Festival this way. Oh well, at least _I_
>> don't have to tune for any of it except one. And that one is at
>> least at A-440 with one of our faculty members.
>>    Just thought some might find this "curious". :-)
>>
>> Avery
>>
>	If they are doing a triple concerto (presumably Bach) with three
>concert grand pianos, that's already so far from baroque that the pitch
>and temperament hardly register as issues. On the other hand, It's
>preferable, from the technicians point of view, to trying to get three
>double manual harpsichords to be in tune, all at the same time, under
>the lights, and under conditions of a festival (sharply limited
>timeframes). So count your blessings. ;-)
>
>Fred Sturm, RPT
>University of New Mexico

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