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Article: Stars in traditional styles show baroque skill
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 25, 1996
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The rise of the early music movement has caused a division between
champions of baroque performance practices and defenders of
traditional classical music, a rift so great that you might think
partisans were speaking two different languages.
But the infiltration of the early music crowd into conservatories
has meant an increasing cross-fertilization of styles even within
such a grand romantic band as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Sunday
afternoon at the Fullerton Auditorium of the Art Institute of
Chicago, four "bilingual" CSO players offered music of French,
English, Dutch and German baroque composers on original instruments
or copies.
Two players - principal oboe Alex Klein and ...