STIRRED SO MUCH
8:00 pm Concert | 7:15 Pre-concert talk
Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory
In the TELUS Centre for
Performance and Learning
273 Bloor Street West
Tickets: 416.408.0208
or performance.rcmusic.ca
Featuring
Alex Pauk, conductor
Shauna Rolston, cello
Programme
| Arvo Pärt | Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten |
| Chris Paul Harman | Silver Threads Among the Gold |
| Douglas Schmidt | The Devil’s Sweat (World Premiere) (Carbon Concerto for carbon cello and orchestra) |
| John Corigliano | Symphony #1 |
YouTube video: John Corigliano: "Tarantella" from SYMPHONY No.1
Rutgers Wind Ensemble, Peter Stanley Martin, conductor
November 14, 2008 - Nicholas Music Center,
Rutgers University, NJ
Corigliano’s instructions to the orchestra:
Cantus is Pärt’s tribute to a composer he greatly admired but never got the chance to meet.
A gramophone and a recording of a popular 19th century American song (Silver Threads Among the Gold) were among the few possessions novelist Joy Kogawa’s family was permitted to keep when sent to an internment camp for Japanese Canadians during WW II. The song is a point of departure for Harman’s piece.
Schmidt’s work reflects on the unsettled mood of most people on the planet these days, but not in an overly dark way. Its title also hints at the challenges provided for Shauna whose carbon cello can, supposedly, be dropped from a plane in flight and not be damaged.
Profound feelings stirred in Corigliano, who lost many friends and colleagues to the AIDS epidemic, lead him to compose his transcendental Symphony #1, memorializing those he had lost or was losing.
Concert Sponsor: Hal Jackman Foundation
