Thoughts and Magic is the title of the season opening live performance for Toronto’s Kindred Spirits Orchestra. The opening night time gala takes place October 18, and options violinist Jing Ye as soloist, with host Daniel Vnukowski.
Maestro Kristian Alexander will conduct a different program that features Mason Bates’ Sea-blue circuitry, Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, and Tchaikovsky’s Manfred symphony.
Jing Ye, violin
Jing Ye, Concertmaster of the Kindred Spirits Orchestra, started taking part in as a baby in her native China, and earned a Bachelor of Music diploma from the Central Conservatory of Music. She later went on to earn her Grasp of Music diploma in Violin Efficiency College of Cincinnati Faculty-Conservatory of Music.
Jing made her New York’s Carnegie/Weill Corridor debut in 2002, and has carried out recitals and as a soloist with orchestras throughout North America, China, Singapore, and Indonesia.
She beforehand performed as a member of the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. As a scholar, she was Concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra of the Cincinnati Faculty-Conservatory of Music and of the China Youth Symphony Orchestra. At 22, she turned the youngest Principal Violinist of the China Nationwide Ballet Orchestra.
The Music
Mason Bates: Sea-blue Circuitry
American composer Mason Bates blends symphonic traditions with digital soundscapes in a completely modern type. The native of Richmond, Virginia studied composition and English literature on the Juilliard College and the Curtis Institute of Music. He later accomplished his PhD on the College of California, Berkeley. He has served as composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts. Outstanding ensembles such because the San Francisco Symphony, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra have commissioned and carried out this work. He composed the music for the GRAMMY-winning opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (2017). Sea-blue Circuitry consists in a free-flowing mode, very like the currents of water which might be its inspiration, and incorporates uncommon instrumentation and sounds — like chirping trumpets, and even an previous typewriter.
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
Symphonie espagnole, with its emphasis on the solo instrument, is normally handled as a violin concerto. Although he was born in Lille, France, Lalo’s household had Spanish origins. He started his profession as a violinist and chamber musician, solely taking up composition later in life. Opera was the king of the Parisian music scene within the mid-Nineteenth century when Lalo was energetic as a composer, however it could be his Spanish roots that ultimately made him well-known. His Symphony espagnole was written for Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasota. Lalo composed it in 5 actions as a sort of hybrid kind someplace between a concerto and symphonic suite. It was a hit on its premiere in 1875, and would spark a wave of enthusiasm for romanticized Spanish-themed music.
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony
In B minor is subtitled “Symphony in 4 scenes”. The composer wrote it in 1885 based mostly on Byron’s poem with the identical title, printed in 1817, on the request of Russian nationalist composer Mily Balakirev. It’s the biggest of Tchaikovsky’s programmatic works, each in size and instrumentation. Every scene depicts a part of Byron’s poem, which revolves across the melancholic, alienated titular hero. From the brooding first motion as Manfred, represented all through the work by a recurring melody, begins wandering by way of the mountains, the second depicts fairies within the Alps. The third motion sees him passing by pastures and the straightforward lifetime of the mountain folks. The highly effective finale revolves round Manfred’s imaginative and prescient of his personal dying and redemption.
The Live performance: Thoughts and Magic (October 18)
Audiences can arrive early and keep later so as to add to the expertise.
- 7:10 p.m. Pre-concert discuss: Mihaela Cudalbu, musicologist
- 7:20 p.m. Prélude: pre-concert recital: Johann Strauss Jr., Voices of spring waltz; The blue Danube waltz with Alexander Gangurean, violin; Lusine Navoyan, cello
- Intermission dialogue and Q&A with Jing Ye and Daniel Vnukowski
- Submit-concert reception
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a artistic writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
