Also, you'll be in a classical band and an electronic band and a metal band, and that's okay.
Sinfonia New York materialized with little fanfare, unlike earlier ventures here: the Classical Band, which quickly went defunct, and the New York Collegium, now on hiatus.
They were both in the school's classical band; he played drums, she played clarinet, but explains: "He was at the back, so I started playing trumpet so I moved closer to him".
Prominent conductors have occasionally applied: Trevor Pinnock, from London, as the founding music director of the short-lived Classical Band more than a decade ago, and the venerable Gustav Leonhardt, from Amsterdam, as the founding music director of the New York Collegium three years ago.
Michael S. Feldman, its first president, seemed eager to get past the inevitable growing pains and take up Classical and even Romantic music, as if hellbent on following an earlier New York period-instrument group, the short-lived, unlamented Classical Band, lemminglike, into oblivion.
The Grande Bande has been given a run for its money by better financed, high-profile ventures like the Classical Band, which failed in the early 90's, and the New York Collegium, which appears to be healthy as it heads into its third season.
