Boulder Symphony rehearses for first performance in months
They ve kept in touch over Zoom, but until Monday night, it had been months since members of the orchestra played music together in the same room. Author: Noel Brennan Updated: 10:23 PM MST March 2, 2021
BOULDER, Colo. Masked musicians sat six feet apart and began tuning their violins and cellos, drowning out the sound of the only wind instruments in the room: two whirring air purifiers. Everybody who plays in the orchestra actually is able to wear a mask because we’ve essentially excluded all wind, brass, aerosol-producing instruments, said Devin Patrick Hughes, conductor of the Boulder Symphony.
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