Also, the group is not a professional one, accepting mostly any student in the area who's interested in playing in an orchestra. I think the ability of the director to get this kind of sound out of this kind of group is at least fascinating...
I'm not sure, but did you by any chance mean David Hurley, the countertenor on the right? The tenor, Paul Phoenix - although he is phenomenal as well - doesn't stand out in this particular video as much. For ones where he does, I would suggest for instance his lead part in their I L...
You're probably right. This song is on a KS CD, Watching The White Wheat from 1986, although unfortunately I have no way to verify whether it's this same version. According to the CD label, the tenor is sung by Bill Ives (and it definitely does sound like him), so if Wikipedia's rig...
Yes, it was basically a change in the technology. Whether it's an improvement or not is up to each one of us personally to decide, though - for example the sound of a baroque clarino is softer and gentler than a modern trumpet. The improvement of pitch, however, I would presume is...
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