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Early Music aka Historically Informed Music

Ran across a mag called EMAg, " The Magazine of Early Music America" today at Barnes and Noble as I was picking up my Gramaphone
I never heard of it before and was thrilled there even is such a thing.
Absolutely WONDERFUL rag, pure class throughout, covers the entire scene in USA, great reviews and very well written high-level articles .
Some for the musician that a serious listener can grasp with some effort,
and there is nothing but good that comes to one who tries.

Out of Pittsburg , a Quartely, 6$ a pop.
First time in my long life I sat down immediately after first read( there will be several) and mailed a check for a years suscription !
schubert
schubert OP
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Bill, I root for the Vikes and have since '61 when they were founded . Don't know why, I was in Germany at the time and had never been to MN.
That said, IMO football has descended to a level where I really don't much care about it,much less lose sleep over who wins or loses.
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There was a similar mag that Gramophone itself was publishing, named Gramophone Early Music. I have issues 1-4 from 1999-2000, which I found at Tower Records. I never saw any more issues, and had forgotten all about it until I saw this posting. The mag was great in it's coverage of "period informed" Baroque performers. I'll have to look at B & N for this new one, thanks.
schubert OP
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Bdp25,if not in your local store try web instead , B& N doesn't put a mag like that in many of its stores.

I just now Googled" Early Music America" ,like the mag itself their web site is very classy .
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Okay--if Pitt is in the top five US orchestras, which of these are not: NY Phil, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, LA Phil, Seattle, Minnesota...
schubert OP
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As I hear the Minnesota a lot, while it is a very good band,perhaps with its Finnish Conductor the best Sibelius one in US, it would be giving them the benefit of the doubt to place them in the top 10 much less the top 5 .
Of course any orchestra in top 20 is very good and MN is certainly there.
From what I hear on NPR , LA is not all that consistent but
not hearing them live , that's just a guess.
One thing I hear about the Pittsburg that is not a guess is that their woodwind section is as good as it gets.
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