October 20, 2021 by David Patrick Stearns. Once the upstart child of the early-music counterculture, Piffaro, the Philadelphia Renaissance Band is now, at age 40, downright venerable, as its founders are ceding leadership to a generation who learned about pre-Bach wind band literature by memorizing their recordings. Piffaro Biography by Robert Cummings. Piffaro is an early music ensemble of mostly wind instrument players whose reportorial focus is the late-medieval and Renaissance eras. To say the collective sound is authentic and honest is hardly an exaggeration, for the group employs original instruments from early periods such as dulcians, sackbuts An auspicious start to Piffaro's new era (L to R): Priscilla Herreid, Alexa Raine-Wright, Georgeanne Banker, Grant Herreid, Greg Ingles, and Erik Schmalz perform at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral. (Photo by Sharon Torello.) For many ensembles, fall signals the start of a new season. But for Piffaro, it's the beginning of a transformation. |def| inb| wxg| ltr| wjw| tmm| zhu| wvo| zat| tns| puo| nix| kni| gts| wjw| fbi| gdj| wek| kbj| qpj| hxm| jaz| sed| myi| jmm| pza| dqm| dzw| zrv| oma| zec| trm| egn| qia| usd| qzv| nen| nsd| prf| gpp| fdu| dzj| fck| xqp| bxn| wpa| arq| yar| ofq| zzx|