Word: concertos
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JEAN SIBELIUS: VIOLIN CONCERTO, KARELIA SUITE; FINLANDIA (Finlandia). Miriam Fried gives a passionate performance of the dour Finn's splendid concerto...
GERSHWIN: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, RHAPSODY IN BLUE, CONCERTO IN F (Arabesque). Present at the creation as a player in the Gershwin band, Mitch Miller conducts George the way it oughtta be done -- with love and verve and gusto...
...Davis exclaims, sitting in an empty Midwestern concert hall listening to the first rehearsal of his new Violin Concerto by the Kansas City Symphony. "I know I wrote slurs over those eighth notes, but they're all jumbled together. They sound like mush." Davis jumps up and heads toward the conductor, score in hand. "We need to hear each one separately," he says. "Dig-a-da-dum!" he scats, his right hand punching the air in emphasis. All at once, something that had been mumbled turns articulate as the strings bite into their parts...
...Sometimes I forget when I'm notating that not everybody hears the music the way I do," says Davis, 37. But hearing it they are these days, and cheering it as well. The Manhattan-based composer is enjoying acclaim for the recent premieres of his two latest works: the concerto, subtitled Maps, performed in Kansas City, and Notes from the Underground, an orchestral piece, in New York City. Two seasons ago, his powerful first opera, X (The Life and Times of Malcolm X), caused a sensation at the New York City Opera, and Davis is now at work...
...contain improvisatory sections reminiscent of jazz, it is carefully controlled and expertly planned. Imagine Ellington's lush, massed sonorities propelled by Bartok's vigorous whiplash rhythms and overlaid with the seductive percussive haze of the Balinese gamelan orchestra, and you will have an idea of what both the Concerto and Notes from the Underground sound like...