CCHK artist-in-residence Mike Lee collaborates with renowned Chopin scholar, Jonathan Bellman, to explore Chopin’s predilections for unequal tuning systems and the expressive implications that historical temperaments hold for his music – and conversely what’s lost when the music is heard with modern equal temperament. For this Salon, our 1849 Broadwood (Chopin famously called Broadwood “a real London Pleyel”) will be tuned to Bellman’s reconstructed temperament recipe – the BELLMAN1 – and the A. D. White House’s resident New York Steinway to equal temperament. A selection of excerpts will be explored with the audience on both instruments and tunings.

Space is limited, and advance reservations are recommended at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805054FA9AF2EA3FF2-feb 

Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell’s public health requirements for events, which include wearing masks while indoors and providing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.