Before the season asks its great question, come meet the people who will spend the year answering it. Part concert and part show-and-tell, BODY brings you closer than a symphony concert usually allows, as our musicians step forward to introduce their instruments and reveal how the sound is truly made: horsehair drawn across gut, breath split on a sharp edge, a single reed crowing before it sings. Section by section they demonstrate their craft, before winds and strings join for Louise Farrenc's radiant Nonet, a chamber masterpiece forgotten for a century and blazing back to life.
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