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2017-01-19 08:25:00
Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Balcony (Seat AA110, $27.) ProgramClarinet Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 by Beethoven (1770-1827).“Short Stories” by Hallman (b. 1979).Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 by Brahms (1833-1897). Readers of this blog know that I am not keen on chamber music, that despite my having learned the standard Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms violin sonatas decades ago. One of the reasons is I find them more difficult to appreciate. Today’s performers are individually well-known. We first heard Barnatan in 2015, and tonight was the fourth time we listened to him perform. Weilerstein comes from a family of musicians, and she was awarded the MacArthur Prize a few years ago. I remember enjoying her play Shostakovich’s cello concerto in Carnegie Hall. McGill is the principal clarinet of New York Philharmonic, so we have seen him quite a bit. Calling the compositions […]
2016-11-02 15:53:16
Barbican, London The BBC Symphony Orchestra under the assured direction of Joshua Weilerstein performed music from Brett Dean’s forthcoming opera, and impressed in Hallman’s Gesualdo settingBrett Dean’s opera based on Hamlet – note the composer’s own “based on” formulation – premieres at the Glyndebourne festival in June 2017. Dean has been building towards the finished work in a number of recent compositions, with From Melodious Lay, a treatment of Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship, the latest. This BBC Symphony Orchestra performance under the assured direction of Joshua Weilerstein more than whetted the appetite.Whether these scenes for soprano, tenor and orchestra transfer in whole or in part into the opera remains to be seen. The scale of the orchestration may struggle to be accommodated in the Glyndebourne pit. But Dean’s “diffraction,” a setting of Shakespeare’s words from the three surviving editions of the play, with some lines reassigned from other characters to the […]
2015-12-11 23:15:00
Weilerstein and Barnaton Cancel February Concert
Alisa Weilerstein and Inon BarnatanCourtesy Stanford Live From Stanford Live comes a press release: The cellist Alisa Weilerstein has canceled her upcoming Stanford Live recital with pianist Inon Barnatan on February 6 at Bing Concert Hall. The duo had planned to perform works by Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff and a new composition from Joseph Hallman. No rescheduled date has been announced. Ms. Weilerstein, a 2011 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” winner, has been forced to curtail her travel schedule due to personal circumstances. Because she will be in the final stages of her pregnancy, it has been deemed unwise that she make an overseas flight and so it is with deep regret that she must postpone her visit to Stanford. All current ticket holders will be given the option to use their credit for a future performance in the 2015–16 Stanford Live season or to request a refund. For more information, […]
2014-05-22 20:02:57
Retiring University of Maine music professor Ludlow Hallman and three colleagues will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 13, in the sanctuary of the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill.
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