Adding To The Pantheon

I met the keyboard player and early music savant Ton Koopman one wan, gray morning in the northern German city of Lübeck, where he was performing in a festival dedicated to the baroque organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude. He wore a dark blue blazer, a light blue shirt, round glasses, and pants the color of reddish mud. He has bright blue eyes, but didn’t make much eye contact during our conversation. At times, he raised and dropped his foot against the dark blue carpet, to mimic the motion of playing an organ pedal.