Interchanging Idioms

Here are some of the other CD reviews done by Interchanging Idioms This page will be updated with other reviews as they appear on the website Nicola Benedetti Italia Drew Baker Stress Position Hilary Hahn - Charles Ives Violin Sonatas Dale Trumbore Snow White Turns 60 Pierre-Laurent Aimard The Liszt Project Meerenai Shim Sometimes the City is Silent Nicholas Vasallo Anna Netrebko Live at the Met James Newton Howard Water for Elephants Dave Camwell Bach-centric Nicola Benedetti Tchaikovsky & Bruch: Violin Concertos Anna Netrebko In the Still of the Night Bryn Terfel Bad Boys Yuja Wang Transformation Daniel Hope Air - a Baroque Journey Verismo - Renée Fleming If On a Winter's Night - Sting Chopin - Ingrid Fliter Bach Partitas 1, 5 and 6 Bernstein: Mass for Singers, Players and Dancers From the Top at the Pops Rav...

I am very please to say last night's concert of my music went VERY well. Here are a few of the pieces from it: Bamboo Suite Caitlin Conklin – Oboe, Danielle Smoot - English Horn, Adam Lusk - Bassoon Bamboo Suite is a piece written for a trio of double reeds. In four movements, the piece covers a great deal of territory concerning 20th century music. The opening, First Sprouts - Simplicity, explores interval based music. The piece is written taking a root note with notes one semi-tone up, two semi-tones up and 5 semi-tones up. A pitch class of four notes was chosen to cross beyond the three instruments – require more than one note per player to complete the set. Scherzo – The Great Grass, takes the motive of the first movement and plays with the rhythm obscuring the pulse again and again in a playful manner. The Choral – Delicate Blossoms explores the tonal color of the various instruments utilizing alternate fingerings as well. Finale – Versatility is a “neo-romantic...

O'Connor Violin Method Gaining Traction Among Teachers, Students Mark O'Connor, the multi-Grammy-Award-winning composer and violinist, has announced the opening of registration for his 2010 String Camps in New York City and Tennessee. O'Connor has gathered the world's top violinists, violists and cellists to give intermediate, advanced and professional string players an extraordinary week of instruction and performance at each camp. The camps will also offer teacher training courses in the new O'Connor Violin Method, which has been widely praised since its debut in fall 2009 as "an American grown rival to the Suzuki method" (The New Yorker). It was inspired by his students and by his belief that those who learn to play the "rich stream of American music" (as the Wall Street Journal recently described the O'Connor Method) will enjoy playing music for a lifetime. Teachers who have been trained in the Method have been wildly enthusiastic, ca...

"Musicians for Haiti" - a Benefit Concert - Wednesday January 27th 8pm at Lincoln Theatre, Miami Musicians from The Cleveland Orchestra and the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy (NWS), will join forces to present “Musicians for Haiti,” a concert to benefit Haiti, Wednesday, January 27 at 8:00 P.M. at the Lincoln Theatre (541 Lincoln Road). The performance will be conducted by The Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and NWS Conducting Fellow Teddy Abrams. The performance, the latest collaboration between the two prestigious institutions in a relationship that began nearly 18 years ago, will include Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Elgar’s Nimrod from Enigma Variations, Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. All ticket sales, sponsorship money and donations will benefit Partners In Health (PIH, www.pih.org), an organization that has been working on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years and is helping those affe...

Marvin Hamlisch conducts the Colorado Symphony Orchestra with selections from My Fair Lady to Brigadoon and Gigi . Saturday's concert will present the music of Lerner and Loewe, who created a lasting legacy on Broadway, as well as a songbook of hits that transcend generations. Join Marvin Hamlisch as he leads the CSO, CSO Chorus and three acclaimed vocalists in some of the most memorable music of the 20th century. The Music of Lerner and Loewe CSO Pops Sat | Jan 30 Marvin Hamlisch, principal pops conductor Lauren Dennis, soprano | Drew Frady, tenor Stephen Day, baritone Colorado Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Jack Everly and the BSO team up with magicians and comedians The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, led by BSO Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly, will open its four-week BSO Under the Big Top festival with Mysterioso: Music, Magic, Mayhem & Mirth on Thursday, March 4 at 8 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore and Friday, March 5 and Saturday, March 6 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 7 at 3 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The program features quick-change artists David and Dania and the comedic magic act of Les Arnold and Dazzle. This family-friendly program marks the start of the BSO’s four-week festival of circus-themed programming, titled BSO Under the Big Top —the cultural centerpiece of the Orchestra’s 2009-2010 season. This program combines a variety of musical styles with winning visual performances. The concert features Les Arnold and his daughter, Alex, also known as “Dazzle,” who offer impressive magic with a comedic flair, set in the timeless era of the 1930s ...

Mei-Ann Chen leads Orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Enchantment Theatre Company, under the direction of Assistant Conductor and League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellow Mei-Ann Chen, will perform the fantastic tales of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (based on Arabian Nights ) as part of the BSO Family Concert Series on Saturday, March 6 at 11:00 a.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The production also includes excerpts from Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor , Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and Mussorgsky’s dramatic favorite Night on Bald Mountain . During the winter of 1887, while working to complete Alexander Borodin's unfinished opera Prince Igor , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed an orchestral piece based upon stories and pictures from Arabian Nights . The Enchantment Theater Company will help bring this tale to life using masks, puppets, magic and movement to support the symphonic music of Rim...