Musical ensemble Piffaroreturns to Wilmington on October 12 for a performance of Renaissance music on period instruments.
Piffaro has been making music since the 1980s, specializing in showcasing the lesser-heard music of the Renaissance, a time before Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms. The instruments look and sound a little different than the modern-day ones they evolved into. Those sounds and that evolution are the focus of Piffaro’s concert this weekend, called “Tools of the Trade.”
“This concert is going to show instruments both doing what they do in their heyday and then also how they evolved," says Priscilla Herreid, the ensemble’s artistic director.
Herreid says the instruments not only sound different, they also look different.
“What's nice about it is, yes, you can hear these differences, but the differences are also so visual that you really don't have to know anything about music or theory or history or anything," she says "You look at it and you go, ‘oh, I see what happened. That's amazing.’”
Piffaro performs at 3:00 on Sunday, October 12 at Wilmington’s Christ Church Christiana Hundred.
Piffaro Perfomance excerpts:
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