Green
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Who said it’s not easy being green? We’re going to have a very green evening, traveling from green mountains, to green gardens, and even soaring heavenward...
Wynton Marsalis will play his trumpet as he joins the English Chamber Orchestra under Anthony Newman for Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto” No. 2. Michala Petri, recorder, and Lars Hannibal, guitar, bring us their adaptation of Edouard Lalo’s “Norwegian Fantasy.” Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Daniel Barenboim romp through Mozart’s joyous Violin Sonata in E-flat. Then the world turns green.
In our second hour, Vakhtang Jordania leads the KBS Symphony Orchestra as they take us “To the Green Mountains,” Alan Hovhaness’s Symphony No. 46. The group I Fagiolini sings William Byrd’s “All in a Garden Green.” Michael Torke’s says his “Green” was originally called “Verdant Music,” and implies inexperienced freshness, something unseasoned and youthful; it continues his “exploration of writing energetic, single movement orchestral pieces that celebrate without modulation a single color.” David Zinman conducts the Baltimore Symphony. The Miles Davis/Victor Feldman work “Blue in Green/Seven Steps to Heaven” was arranged by the members of the Turtle Island String Quartet, who join the Detroit Symphony under Neeme Jarvi as they all groove together.
The second half of the evening is no less colorful, though without specific color allusions. The Beaux Arts Trio brings us Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 2 in G Minor; the Melos Quartet presents Leos Janacek’s String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”; and Dieter Klocker conducts the Consortium Classicum in Carl Czerny’s “Notturno brilliant” in E-flat.
Wynton Marsalis will play his trumpet as he joins the English Chamber Orchestra under Anthony Newman for Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto” No. 2. Michala Petri, recorder, and Lars Hannibal, guitar, bring us their adaptation of Edouard Lalo’s “Norwegian Fantasy.” Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Daniel Barenboim romp through Mozart’s joyous Violin Sonata in E-flat. Then the world turns green.
In our second hour, Vakhtang Jordania leads the KBS Symphony Orchestra as they take us “To the Green Mountains,” Alan Hovhaness’s Symphony No. 46. The group I Fagiolini sings William Byrd’s “All in a Garden Green.” Michael Torke’s says his “Green” was originally called “Verdant Music,” and implies inexperienced freshness, something unseasoned and youthful; it continues his “exploration of writing energetic, single movement orchestral pieces that celebrate without modulation a single color.” David Zinman conducts the Baltimore Symphony. The Miles Davis/Victor Feldman work “Blue in Green/Seven Steps to Heaven” was arranged by the members of the Turtle Island String Quartet, who join the Detroit Symphony under Neeme Jarvi as they all groove together.
The second half of the evening is no less colorful, though without specific color allusions. The Beaux Arts Trio brings us Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 2 in G Minor; the Melos Quartet presents Leos Janacek’s String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”; and Dieter Klocker conducts the Consortium Classicum in Carl Czerny’s “Notturno brilliant” in E-flat.
