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Priscilla's Broadway Adventure

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source

Published January 5, 2014 at 5:59 PM EST

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Priscilla Herreid with the New York Baroque

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Priscilla Herreid is the daughter of WRTI's Kile Smith.

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Priscilla Herreid

Philadelphia theatergoers visiting New York for Shakespeare's Globe on Broadway may stumble upon a surprisingly familiar sight: Priscilla Smith Herreid, a member of the Philadelphia Renaissance wind bandPiffaro, playing shawms and bagpipes to accompany the beheadings in Richard III as well as the comic complications of Twelfth Night. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s David Patrick Stearns has more.

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