Yes, Brandon, that was it. Small world!

Carl

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From: Brandon Michael Fess
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 9:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] A-440, was speaking of pitch

Are you based out of Rochester? I was at the Monteverdi Vespers performance
at Hochstein - what a fantastic performance. I was very appreciative of the
pre-concert explanation of the pitch scheme they used. While I'm used to
mean tone tuning in early music, I did not realize that A was higher than
440 at that time in Italy. Too much time spent in French Baroque and its low
A, I guess.

Brandon Fess
LIS Candidate, Class of 2015
Graduate Assistant, Belfer Audio Archive

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Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 7:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] A-440, was speaking of pitch

Parenthetically, the 1/1972 issue of Recording Engineer/Producer contains a
very informative article on the contemporary orchestral recording practices
of the three major US producers, via interviews with Max Wilcox, John
McClure, and Carson Taylor. Taylor speaks about his rearrangement of seating
for Cleveland and his experience in Chicago.

Scans are available at http://www.americanradiohistory.com/ originally from
the collection of Doug Pomeroy.

I recently recorded performances of Monteverdi's Vespers conducted by Paul
O'Dette. Their tuning was A466, determined in part by the tuning of the
cornetti. That was mean-tone, so it's a whole different scheme and effect.