Episode notes
In which we might have discovered the root cause of how the United States' orchestra seating is the way it is today, with a helpful guest to illuminate the path.
Daniel J. Koury - Orchestral Performance Practices in the Nineteenth Century: Size, Proportions, and Seating (UMI Press 1986)
Content from The Notation Is Not the Music: Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance by Barthold Kuijken is used with permission of Indiana University Press.