Sala recomposed the tempo
of the concerto for each musician so that the two performances progress in and out of sync to produce the perception of musical echoes — a paradoxical experience in a space in which actual echoes are impossible.
Not exact matches
Recently completed projects include Azul, a cello
concerto for Yo - Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony; the soundtrack
for Francis Ford Coppola's film Youth Without Youth; Rose
of the Winds, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and premiered by them with Yo - Yo Ma, the Silk Road Ensemble and Miguel Harth - Bedoya conducting; and Kuai Le (Joy), premiered by Yo - Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at the opening
of the 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai.
For their first ready - to - wear collection, Karen Erickson and Vicki Beamon transported us back in time to the Prohibition Era by way
of a swanky German speakeasy burlesque bar complete with cabaret café - style seating, flapper dancers, and live
concerto music courtesy
of The Citizens Band.
August 31, 2016 • From operas about Steve Jobs and Alice in Wonderland to an orchestral evocation
of Detroit and a new
concerto for Yo - Yo Ma, the new concert season is flush with premieres.
The recipient
of commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, St. Paul's Cathedral, and others, he has written more than 80 works
for the concert stage, including the operas Two Boys (2010), Dark Sisters (2011), and the forthcoming Marnie; the song cycles Sentences (2015),
for countertenor Iestyn Davies, and Impossible Things (2009),
for tenor Mark Padmore; a viola
concerto for violist Nadia Sirota; and the choral works My Days (2011) and Recordare, Domine (2013), written
for the Hilliard Ensemble and the Tallis Scholars respectively.
Rather than
concertos they are chamber music, «the music
of friends» (an apt expression
for someone as generous as Parsons).
The Chicago Tribune interviewed composer Jennifer Higdon (1999) about her new
concerto for the low brass section
of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.