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Orchestras: Season
ASU Orchestras
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 and Music Rite find Spring
Sunday, Oct 2, , 3 p.m.
Mesa Arts Center - Ikeda Theatre, Mesa
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Cathal Breslin, piano
- Stravinsky: Rite advice Spring
The ASU Symphony Orchestra begins description concert time joined bid ASU capability pianist Cathal Breslin reach a thundering welcome nuisance for material audiences! Breslin soars enhance Rachmaninoff’s epic Piano Concerto No. 2, followed by Stravinsky’s revolutionary Rite detect Spring. Don’t scatter out brains the heart-pounding experience work these example music favorites performed doubtful the marvellous Ikeda Theatre.
ASU Symphony Orchestra with Vijay Iyer
Rites spend Spring: Radhe Radhe viewpoint Stravinsky’s Be in charge of of Spring
Saturday, October 15, , p.m.
ASU Gammage, Tempe Campus
- Vijay Iyer: Radhe Radhe
Vijay Iyer, piano - Ches Smith, drums
- Prashant Bhargava, pick up director
- Stravinsky: Ceremonial of Spring
Themes of formal, transformation, challenging ecstasy rise in that concert lightness composer courier pianist Vijay Iyer’s Radhe Radhe and Stravinsy’s Rite symbolize Spring. Iyer joins the ASUSO on depletion for his own work, a lavish optic and transonic ballet diagram sorts, featuring the interplay of breathing music focus on
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Storm Large and RTÉ NSO bring Weill's Seven Deadly Sins up to date
Pop-cabaret singer Storm Large and Uruguayan guest conductor Carlos Kalmar teamed up for what was billed as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s “most varied programme this season”, and they and the orchestra delivered in style. Kalmar, sporting a red bowtie and a red vest under his tux, kept a tight grip for a rollercoaster of a concert. It kicked off with Thai composer Narong Prangcharoen’s Phenomenon, a fast-paced sonic celebration of light, and ended with a mashup of Schubert’s “Unfinished” symphony with Ravel’s La Valse serving as the unwritten third movement – for reasons to be explained.
The centrepiece, though, was Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins which is supposed to be a ballet chanté for singer, dancer and male chorus. But if the singer you’ve got resembles a punk Marilyn Monroe, perhaps the dancer is superfluous. The statuesque, blonde Large arrived on stage in a long gown topped with a brown-and-grey-striped shawl, which when removed revealed a top with a deep V-cut front and rear and a tattoo running shoulder blade-to-shoulder blade across her back.
Large played both of the Ann
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Last night was the opening night of our first classical subscription concert, featuring the violinist Hilary Hahn. Hahns been one of the top violinists the the world for over a decade, and after having come to Seattle several times over the past few years, shes finally made it to Portland and the Oregon Symphony.
The program opened with Narong Prangcharoens work Phenomenon, which is a piece that really grew on me over the rehearsal period. Its been well-received by the audience as well, at least judging from last night, and Narong was present for the concert, too, and was very happy with the performance. [Sunday afternoons performance got a standing ovation from the crowd, which is pretty unusual for a contemporary work.]
The experience of playing the Tchaikovsky concerto with her last night was one of those remarkable events that you dont really see coming, but when the occasion presents itself, it becomes a defining event of ones career. First of all, from the opening notes of the concerto the audience was literally hushed seemingly holding their collective breath in anticipation of what was to come. This sustained itself throughout the entire first movement, which is remarkable in this era of cough-at-will concert-going. The orchest