{"id":60,"date":"2006-07-23T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T00:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:47:09","slug":"interpretive-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/23\/interpretive-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"interpretive dilemma…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in the late stages of learning the Martinu Rhapsody-Concerto for a performance at the Sunriver Music Festival (on the east slopes of the Central Oregon Cascades) in Sunriver, Oregon. I very much love the sound world of the piece, it’s much like if Aaron Copland were Czech! There is the homesick quality that one gets from a piece written by a composer in exile from his homeland (he lived in exile in the United States from 1941 to 1953) and there is just enough fast passage work to challenge the fingers. However, I just am not satisfied with my ability to get the piece to hang together logically. Especially problematic is the ending – a long, sustained low F with very little happening in the orchestra. It may be that I’ve only run it with a piano so far, but I’m left cold and cannot seem to set up the ending properly. The problem with having only one performance to do a piece is that you can’t really shake it down properly beforehand with the orchestra in a performance setting. The rehearsals definitely help, but I wish I had a subscription series of three performances to get the thing to settle for me. Ah, well – beggars definitely cannot be choosers! Meanwhile, back to the lab for more woodshedding…<\/p>\n

Bohuslav Martinu: Rhapsody-concerto for Viola and Orchestra
\nCompleted New York City, 1952.
\nPremiered February 19, 1953 by Jascha Weissi, Principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra, with the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of George Szell.
\nPublished by B\u00c3\u00a4renreiter (4316).<\/p>\n

\"Rhapsody<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in the late stages of learning the Martinu Rhapsody-Concerto for a performance at the Sunriver Music Festival (on the east slopes of the Central Oregon Cascades) in Sunriver, Oregon. I very much love the sound world of the piece, it’s much like if Aaron Copland were Czech! 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