Jennifer Sadoff, Chicago graduate student, practices her baroque bassoon for “Pieces in Trio.”

Nordstrom is the director of early music program, which includes different varieties of ensembles, from a complete Baroque orchestra to the Collegium Singers.

The ensembles will be featured at 6 p.m. today in the Organ Recital Hall in the Music Building.

The ensembles use instruments that date back to before the 17th century, and play pieces written before 1750.

Instruments such as the baroque trumpet, the harpsichord and the recorder are all used to demonstrate the sounds of the time period.

Nordstrom said people enjoy listening to early music because of how it makes them feel.

“It’s refreshing music,” he said.

“It makes you feel good” Dr. Lenora McCroskey of the music faculty plays harpsichord, another instrument popular with the early music ensemble. She said the program is growing among the students.

“It’s an exciting program here for people at all levels,” she said.

Music from the “early music” time period places emphasis on baroque instruments such as the baroque trumpet, which Nordstrom said is made out of wood instead of metal.

It is softer and it has a more woody sound then instruments of today.

The event is free and open to the public.

Reprinted from the North Texas Daily with permission (www.ntdaily.com).

April 2002

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