{"id":1706,"date":"2009-01-14T16:51:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T00:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:13:12","slug":"this-weeks-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/14\/this-weeks-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"this week’s concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we’re doing an immensely interesting classical series set that features four excellent pieces that I’ll bet you’ve never heard before.\u00c2\u00a0 I certainly hadn’t played any of them before, and that’s becoming increasingly rare as I traverse my 13th season in the OSO.<\/p>\n

Here’s the lineup:<\/p>\n

Classical Bass
\nJanuary 17, 18, 19, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles Ives<\/strong> – Central Park in the Dark<\/em>
\nGiovanni Bottesini (ed. Meyer)<\/strong> – Concerto No. 2 in B minor for Double Bass & Orchestra
\nEdgar Meyer <\/strong>– Concerto No. 1 in D major for Double Bass & Orchestra
\nAntonin Dvorak<\/strong> – Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 6<\/p>\n

Edgar Meyer – double bass soloist
\nCarlos Kalmar – conductor<\/p>\n

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Charles Ives<\/em><\/p>\n

The Ives is an amazing, evocative piece of tone-painting, portraying the sounds of a warm summer’s night in New York’s Central Park.\u00c2\u00a0 Wikipedia notes:<\/p>\n

In 1906 Ives would compose what some have argued was the first radical musical work of the twentieth century, “Central Park in the Dark”.[<\/span>12]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> The piece evokes an evening comparing sounds from nearby nightclubs in Manhattan (playing the popular music of the day, ragtime, quoting “Hello My Baby” and even Sousa’s “Washington Post March<\/a>“) with the mysterious dark and misty qualities of the Central Park woods (played by the strings). The string harmony uses shifting chord structures that are not solely based on thirds but a combination of thirds, fourths, and fifths. Near the end of the piece the remainder of the orchestra builds up to a grand chaos ending on a dissonant chord, leaving the string section to end the piece save for a brief violin duo superimposed over the unusual chord structures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Edgar Meyer – Photo: Jimmy Lenner Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then come two works for the double bass, a long-neglected solo instrument in the classical world.\u00c2\u00a0 Renowned virtuoso Edgar Meyer (familiar to Portland audiences from his frequent appearances with Chamber Music Northwest) will play his own edition of the Bottesini concerto, which is very much in the popular verismo style, and features a jaw-dropping cadenza written by Meyer himself.\u00c2\u00a0 After this appetizer comes Meyer’s own Concerto No. 1, which is very much in the modern vernacular, with licks for the solo bass drawing from jazz, country, and bluegrass traditions as well as the classical oeuvre<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 You have never heard the double bass played the way you will during this series – I cannot recommend coming more highly!<\/p>\n

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Antonin Dvorak – Image: LIFE<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, the Sixth Symphony of Dvorak.\u00c2\u00a0 I had heard about this piece, but never listened to it or performed it before this week.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a wonderful piece, and it shows off the common practice of cross-pollination between contemporary composers.\u00c2\u00a0 The outer movements of Dvorak’s symphony seem to play homage to Brahms’ Second Symphony, also in D major, which was written three years prior to Dvorak’s symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 There are also echoes of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 For me the highlight is the central dance movement, the scherzo-like Furiant<\/em>, a whirling, colorful, acrobatic dance.\u00c2\u00a0 Why this piece hasn’t been done here since 1995 is a mystery to me!<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample of the beginning of the last movement – hear if you can spot the likeness to Brahms’ Second Symphony.<\/p>\n[audio:dvorak6_IV.mp3]\n

For tickets, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we’re doing an immensely interesting classical series set that features four excellent pieces that I’ll bet you’ve never heard before.\u00c2\u00a0 I certainly hadn’t played any of them before, and that’s becoming increasingly rare as I traverse my 13th season in the OSO. Here’s the lineup: Classical Bass January 17, 18, 19, 2009 Charles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-rw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3290,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/24\/nancy-ives-plays-dvorak\/","url_meta":{"origin":1706,"position":0},"title":"nancy ives plays dvorak","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Nancy Ives\/Photo \u00a9 Charles Noble I had the pleasure of venturing North into the wilds of Vancouver, Washington to hear Nancy Ives, principal cellist of the Oregon Symphony, perform the great Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Vancouver Symphony under the direction of Salvator Brotons.\u00a0 I don't really want to write\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "cello"","block_context":{"text":"cello","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/instruments\/cello\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"CRW_1653","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/3811818687_ef01fecabb_o-200x290.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12577,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/06\/classical-up-close-concerts-blitz-events-set\/","url_meta":{"origin":1706,"position":1},"title":"classical up close concerts & blitz events set","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You can see the complete list of events\/locations\/times at the Classical Up Close website, but the programs are listed at the Classical Up Close facebook page. \u00a0ED: Now everything is on one handy page at www.classicalupclose.com. 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