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 Jennifer Higdon (b. Brooklyn, NY, December 31, 1962) is the most performed living American composer working today. She is the recipient of awards, including a Pew Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. The Telarc release of Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra / City Scape won a GrammyTM award in 2005. Her work blue cathedral is one of the most-performed orchestral works by a living composer (150 orchestras have performed the work since its 2000 premiere). Some of her recent commissions include works for The Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Chicago Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, eighth blackbird, Tokyo String Quartet, and Ying Quartet. Upcoming projects include a new violin concerto for Hilary Hahn. A solo disc of her chamber music was recently released by Naxos. She is on the composition faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she holds the Milton L. Rock Chair in Compositional Studies. To read more about Ms. Higdon, visit her website.
Reviews of blue cathedral:
"'blue cathedral' is a potent experience, awash in facile orchestrations and an engaging sense of journey."
-- Peter Dobrin, The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
"Higdon's 'blue cathedral' made us marvel at the process of creation. It is intriguing and serene, evoking the pastorale naivete of Copland and the crystalline harmonies of Ravel, while sounding utterly of our time."
-- Pierre Ruhe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA)
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 Also programmed on March 14, Theofanidis Rainbow Body (click here to listen to a clip).
"One of Theofanidis' favorite techniques is to develop music not in the traditional thematic manner, but by growing in color, intensity and reverberation. More than just getting louder, he creates energy through a complicated process of holding specific notes and orchestrating certain instruments. He calls this 'haloing' or creating a 'wet acoustic.' In Rainbow Body the theme stated above expands in each of its subsequent statements using this technique." --Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
To read a full preview of this work from Pittsburgh's Post-Gazette, click here.
Call Barbara B. Mann Box Office for tickets to these concerts at
(239) 481-4849 or purchase online by clicking here.
Don't Miss Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2, the "Romantic" - Also on This Program!
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky commissioned Hanson's Symphony No. 2 "the Romantic" and premiered it on November 28, 1930. This work was to become Hanson's best known. One of its themes is performed at the conclusion of all concerts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Now known as the "Interlochen Theme", it is conducted by a student concertmaster after the featured conductor has left the stage. Traditionally no applause follows its performance. It is also best known for its use in the end credits of the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien. Click here for a full Hanson bio.
REMAINING ACCESS CONCERTS:
May 9, 2009
Beethoven: Fidelio Overture
Bruckner Symphony No. 8
Call Barbara B. Mann Box Office for tickets to these concerts at
(239) 481-4849 or purchase online by clicking here.
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