The Americans pronounce the word to rhyme with ‘joke’, the British, like the German Barock with ‘shock’. With their Academy of Original Instruments-in-the-Streetsīaroque. Michael Copley, flute, sopranino recorder, crumhorn JACQUES OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld: Can Can WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro: Non più andrai PIETRO MASCAGNI: Cavalleria rusticana: IntermezzoįRANZ VON SUPPÉ:Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant): Overture GIUSEPPE VERDI: La traviata: Sempre libera WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Don Giovanni: Deh vieni alla finestra (Serenade) GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: L’italiana in Algeri: Overture GIUSEPPE VERDI: Rigoletto: Quartet (Act III) RICHARD WAGNER: Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Una voce poco fa KURT WEILL: The Threepenny Opera: Happy Life SongĪRTHUR SULLIVAN: HMS Pinafore: Little Buttercup WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Die Zauberflöte: Monostatos’s Aria WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro: Dove sono i bei momenti GIUSEPPE VERDI: Rigoletto: La donna è mobile GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville: Largo al factotum

There was no audience but both of the Hall cleaning ladies liked what they heard and asked for a free copy. Instead, it was made in Hornsey Town Hall in North London over two days in late April 1982.

It was not recorded on a street corner or subway station as we found that the digital computer and balance console blocked the sidewalk and people kept throwing coins to the producer. On this record we tried to reproduce the spontaneity and fun of live pavement work.

Overture by D.G. Parker