Annette Richards and David Yearsley explore natural histories in sound, conjuring forests, birds, and landscapes through the music of Byrd, Sweelinck, Monteverdi, Pärt, and Yearsley, at the Italian baroque and Aeolian-Skinner organs.

This event is part of the symposium “Sustaining Keyboards” (September 15-16, 2023). The symposium asks how notions of sustainability might prompt us to think anew about keyboard histories, embedded as they are in ecologies of nature and commerce, artifice and art, craft and industry. To what extent are those histories, and the instruments that embody them, sustainable into an uncertain future? Complete schedule available at https://historicalkeyboards.as.cornell.edu/sustaining-keyboards-september-15-16