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...Christina Castelli...
...CASTELLI'S death is an exclamation point that ends an era. In 1958 I walked into 4 East 77th Street, New York City. A slight man in his 40s was hanging paintings in a 23-ft. by 24-ft. room. This room became the showcase for a number of young, bold American artists. I, a former billboard painter, was one of them. Leo brought an Old World appreciation, but an understanding of the American spirit, to New York City and the world. In the late '50s and '60s, with his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, he discovered Rauschenberg, Johns, Stella, Lichtenstein...
...highlight of the concert, and presumably its biggest draw, will be HRO Concerto Competition winner Christina Castelli '00, who has to perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto for herds of "Junior Parents," including...
...Castelli, a double-threat who won an international viola competition in 1997, nervousness is probably not an issue. Castelli has been praised in the Washington Post for her virtuosity and for "cantabile resonance," something the Sibelius calls for in spades...
...first movement. There is still plenty of muscular music in the 1905 version we hear tonight, which makes greater demands on the soloist in terms of smoothness and tone. In rehearsal only the first two movements were heard, apparently because of Yannatos' temper, but two were enough to show Castelli at the top of her game. Awesome voicing, awesome dynamic range, and some Heifitzian melodrama suggest a Sibelius not to be missed. For those inclined to adduce parallels, note the resemblance between the second movement of the Sibelius and the refrain of the Gershwin song...