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getClassical (Ilona Oltuski)
2016-11-04 19:33:51
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra opens the 92Y season with two life-affirming works: a premiere by George Tsontakis and Mozart’s Concerto No 23, in A major with pianist Jeremy Denk.
[…] much-lauded interest in innovative contemporary works (to date, the SPCO has commissioned 146 new works). This affinity shone in Tsontakis’ adventurous four-part composition, which the composer himself described as: “…a reflection on recent world circumstances including the tumbling world, loss of friends and [his] own personal advancement into the foothills of an ageless maturity.” The American-born Greek composer is currently composer-in-residence at the Bard Conservatory and Aspen Music Festival, and has formerly been affiliated with Oxford Philomusica, Albany Symphony and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The virulent showcased piece, the title of which while announced personally by Tsontakis sounded vaguely more like an antioxidant remedy than a contemporary composition, offered a vibrant sonic spectrum of all strings within a life-affirming cosmic cycle. The title is in fact loosely inspired by the opening lines of Axion Esti, by contemporary Greek poet Odysseus Elytis: “Attos O Kosmos, O Mikros, O […]
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getClassical (Ilona Oltuski)
2016-10-19 06:01:32
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra opens the 92Y season with two life-affirming works: a premiere by George Tsontakis and Mozart’s Concerto No 23, in A major with pianist Jeremy Denk.
[…] much-lauded interest in innovative contemporary works (to date, the SPCO has commissioned 146 new works). This affinity shone in Tsontakis’ adventurous four-part composition, which the composer himself described as: “…a reflection on recent world circumstances including the tumbling world, loss of friends and [his] own personal advancement into the foothills of an ageless maturity.” The American-born Greek composer is currently composer-in-residence at the Bard Conservatory and Aspen Music Festival, and has formerly been affiliated with Oxford Philomusica, Albany Symphony and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The virulent showcased piece, the title of which while announced personally by Tsontakis sounded vaguely more like an antioxidant remedy than a contemporary composition, offered a vibrant sonic spectrum of all strings within a life-affirming cosmic cycle. The title is in fact loosely inspired by the opening lines of Axion Esti, by contemporary Greek poet Odysseus Elytis: “Attos O Kosmos, O Mikros, […]
2015-11-09 17:25:00
When Marios Papadopoulos founded Oxford Philomusica in 1998, the orchestra's name had a donnish ring that might have gone down well in its home town but proved a stumbling block elsewhere. Earlier this year the outfit rebranded itself as the less ...
2015-11-09 17:25:00
When Marios Papadopoulos founded Oxford Philomusica in 1998, the orchestra's name had a donnish ring that might have gone down well in its home town but proved a stumbling block elsewhere. Earlier this year the outfit rebranded itself as the less ...
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