The Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier this year unveiled some of the main components of its renovated musical instrument galleries, and this Saturday A Tempo (7/21 at 7 pm) takes us on a tour through some of the highlights. Host Rachel Katz will interview Bradley Strauchen-Scherer about some of the changes, including a decision to move away from a more traditional geographic and cultural division of instruments in order to better illustrate how music across all cultures has played a fundamental role in how people have used music in their daily, ritual, ceremonial and entertainment activities.
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Bradley Strauchen-Scherer describes some of the earliest instruments on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts' musical instruments galleries.
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More images can be seen at the museum's website here. See here for a time-lapse video of the dismantling and reassembling of the Appleton Organ.
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Bradley Strauchen-Scherer discusses some of the Western stringed instruments on display, including Stradivarius violins.
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Bradley Strauchen-Scherer talks about Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown, whose musical instrument collection forms the backbone of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's musical instrument collection.
