Locals Rescue Traveling Orchestra That Had To Abandon Instruments

An Italian Baroque orchestra had to fly to Canada without their instruments over the weekend because of increased airline security. “Scouring the city and calling out to performers across B.C., Festival Vancouver promoters found baroque-era replacements — made of 18th-century wood and strung with catgut rather than modern steel for a ‘warmer’ tone — for all 16 of the missed instruments for the musicians from Turin.”