| Saturday Aug 29, 2015 3:00 PM - Saturday Aug 29, 2015 5:00 PM | $8.00 - $25.00 |
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New Millennium Chamber Orchestra: "American Masters" - Music of Copland and Barber!
Join the New Millennium Chamber Orchestra, led by Music Director James Richard Frieman, for a feast of music by the "American Masters" Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland.
Two exciting and challenging modern-classic concertos anchor the program. Copland's genre-smashing Concerto for Clarinet and Strings, which was written for and premiered by Benny Goodman, features local clarinet virtuoso Rachel Dusenbury in her first appearance with NMCO. Her performance of the Concerto several years ago with the Mill Valley Philharmonic was a highlight of the orchestra's season.
NMCO's concertmaster, recording artist and champion fiddler Colyn Fischer, returns as soloist in Barber's rarely-heard masterpiece, the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. The three movements display a remarkable versatility of style ranging from the majestic opening, to the reverent and elegiac slow movement,to a "perpetual motion" finale that is as blazingly fast as it is glorious and brief.
Especially because it's the summer of 2015, local soprano Claire Kelm gives her passionate reading of Barber's famous "Knoxville: Summer of 1915", a tender and haunting setting of a James Agee prose-poem, of which he writes, "We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child." Barber's evocative musical language conjures up the sights, scents and sounds of the Southern summer: people sitting on their porches, "rocking gently and talking gently and watching the street" and the trees and the birds as people and things pass by, including a lively, raucous streetcar rattling its way across town.
We also present three dances from "Billy the Kid", one of Copland's most famous ballet scores. We hear the quiet of the "Prairie Night" as a muted card game is played, we are entertained by the gentle "Waltz", and we witness the "Celebration" when the outlaw Billy is finally captured.
Be sure to get your tickets now for NMCO's celebration of these two great "American Masters"!
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LocationFirst Presbyterian Church Palo Alto (View)
1140 Cowper Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
United States
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| Minimum Age: 5 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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