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Butoy has another lovely piece: Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier grafted onto Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto. The one-legged soldier and his ballerina love battle an evil Jack-in-the-box in a gorgeous blend of traditional and computer animation. Eric Goldberg has a snippet set to Carnival of the Animals--flamingoes playing with yo-yos--that is giddy enough to remind you of Bob Clampett's 1943 cartoon classic A Corny Concerto. The Goldberg variation on Rhapsody in Blue is a smartly syncopated tribute to ageless caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. In the style of the NINAs...
...Bennett has since gone on to perform over 400 concerts, win 50 national and international competitions and become one of the youngest musicians ever to perform Rachmaninov's 3rd concerto. His favorite memory was performing privately for the President of Poland, Lech Walesa, at the age of 17. "He is someone I grew up idolizing. He freed Poland from the Communist government. I had always grown up admiring his strength of character and to get to play a program of all Polish music (Chopin), there was something kind of magical about the whole thing," he stated...
WORK Violin Concerto Romeo and Juliet's theme by Mendelssohn by Nino Rota...
...when the board of education cut funding for arts and music instruction, and Roberta lost her job. In response, she founded the nonprofit Opus 118 Music Center and recruited 14 of the world's top violinists, among them Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern, to play Bach's Double Concerto with her and her students on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Together, they raised more than $300,000 to keep violins in the schools of Harlem. The story inspired an Oscar-winning documentary and The Music of My Heart, a Miramax film starring Meryl Streep, to be released in October. "When...
...This summer he will play at the Marlboro chamber music festival in Vermont before performing the Brahms double concerto with the Orchestra of Saint Luke's at the Caramoor Festival, which he describes as a smaller version of Tanglewood...