At 3:28 PM -0400 4/16/05, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Certainly. But Rachmaninoff's use of the convention was by then no more traditional than Hindemith's use of the viola d'amore.
???????????? Hindemith directed the Yale Collegium Musicum, and was a violist. Why would he not be interested in viola d'amore, and what's wrong with that? It's all part of the rediscovery of early instruments, techniques and performance practice.
John
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