Article: BANCHETO MUSICALE WILL FINALLY GET AROUND TO PLAYING SCHEIN

First, a footnote.

Boston's Banchetto Musicale was named for a collection of 20 instrumental suites written in 1617 by the baroque composer Johann Hermann Schein. But never in its first 15 years has the ensemble played a note of Schein.

That will be remedied during the 16th season, on a program on Nov. 11 that music director and Banchetto founder Martin Pearlman calls the Virtuoso Baroque. Schein will be represented by a suite for strings, C. P. E. Bach by a "crazy" Sinfonia, J. S. Bach by the third Brandenburg, and Handel by a cantata for soprano (Sharon Baker) with a long gamba obbligato for Laura Jeppesen.

But what Pearlman really wants to brag about is finally bagging the right ...

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