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...composer of the World Premiere of Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra, David Baker, a professor of music at Indiana University, says he wanted to illustrate how cellular phones create both order and disorder in our society. "All man-made devices can be used for good and for bad," says Baker, who has been nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy. He adds that while cell phones are great for keeping in touch and getting help in emergencies, they're also very disruptive. The orchestra will alternate between using the cell phones melodiously and as interrupting, annoying rings...
...minute tutorial will instruct audience members to follow the red-light and green-light cues for their phones before the concert opens with "Redes," a piece by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Green light means turn your phone on and/or play you ringtone; red means let the orchestra take charge. Chiming in with the Sinfonietta will be two accomplished young musicians: pianist Alexander Kobrin from Moscow, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, and violinist Melissa White playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...
...play the cello, or a work history that includes the founding of a non-profit. In my experience, there are few students at Harvard “only for athletics,” as there are few students there only for lab work or a role in the orchestra. My teammates have gone on to pursue careers in medicine, in law, in teaching, and yes, there are even a few in finance. And as an aside, I can tell you with the utmost certainty that we were far from “exalted” in the College community...
...revolution became permissible in group ensembles. But the sort of mentality that seeks to ban images of women typically wants also to control and restrict women's place in public life. At a recent concert in the town of Sari, the female members of Iran's only non-government orchestra were asked to play from behind a black curtain. They have been disinvited from an upcoming concert in northwestern Iran altogether...
...This week sees the Sydney Opera House world premiere of Lim's new work for didgeridoo, flute and orchestra, and the SSO may never sound the same again. The Perth-born composer was interested in how Barton could reconfigure the symphonic frequencies of the orchestra, and The Compass is about "tilting the horizon point," she says. "In a way, the didgeridoo collects all the low instruments around it." The piece also brings Barton back to his roots. He begins with a chant in his native Kalkadunga tongue, since "the voice is absolutely the heart of what the didgeridoo's about...