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At any rate, doing “Orfeo” in the way that Nikolaus Harnoncourt, John Eliot Gardiner and Jordi Savall have would be impossible at Santa Fe.

By then, however, the period-instrument revolution was in full flow; when Paul Hindemith presented a scholarly “attempt to reconstruct the premiere” in Vienna in 1954, Harnoncourt and other members of his recently formed Concentus Musicus Wien played in the ensemble.

Last year Ms. Suda took the helm of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but it was led by Anne d’Harnoncourt for more than 25 years beginning in 1982, a storied tenure.

He didn’t want conductors like Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Roger Norrington to stop performing; he just wanted them to drop the pretense of “authenticity.”

Anne d’Harnoncourt was director and chief executive from 1982 until her death in 2008; Jean Sutherland Boggs, who formerly led the National Gallery of Canada, was director of the Philadelphia museum from 1978 to 1982.