Word: concertos
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...again Wednesday night at Club Passim in Harvard Square. The rehearsal was an informal affair. Ma and Kirby joked onstage with Dr. James Yannatos, the conductor of HRO, and conversed with both the audience and musicians. In the middle of the opening piece, Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto, soloist Jonathan Gandelsman took the classic work in an entirely surprising direction. Instead of playing a traditional cadenza, Gandelsman switched to a distinctly Chinese theme. Playing over a sustained drone from the cellos and pentatonic bird-calls from the violins, his solo was a stark contrast what would be expected...
...home: with his latest release, the famed composer produces a tribute to the state worthy of a native son. In what may be Adams’ best composition of the past ten years, “The Dharma at Big Sur” is a 27-minute concerto for electric violin and orchestra that makes up the first half of his new double-disc release. Adams writes of the piece: “[It] express[es] the ‘shock of recognition’” of arriving and experiencing the magnificent Pacific coastline for the first time...
...wrote that "performing the Isang Yun Cello Concerto with the Isang Yun Orchestra in the Isang Yun Concert Hall in North Korea would have been a priceless experience...
...possesses a deep affinity for Yun’s concerto...
...reflection of his time in prison and of his life,” explains Koh. He vividly describes the ending of the concerto as a significant part of this reflection. “The cello is raging—it’s reaching for the high A with the orchestra supporting it. It sustains a G-sharp for eight measures in fortississimo with intense vibrato. It never reaches the A, though...