Compositions, instruments span centuries at Staunton Music Festival
It’s easy to take the contemporary piano and its metal infrastructure for granted, but there was a time when exuberant performances by Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven and other forceful pianists ended with broken strings, keys and even frames. On Sunday, audience members at Staunton’s Trinity Episcopal Church can listen to Rod Regier’s brand-new replica of an 1830 Conrad Graf fortepiano and get a fuller sense of how the […]