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Bach: Chaconne in D Minor for Cello
Orchestra
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
No.1 for Cello Orchestra
Grill: Vignettes -- Winter Trees (2004
-- World Premiere)
Cassado: Suite for Cello
Celebrate the holiday season with One World
Symphony cellists and conductor Sung Jin Hong as they present
a compelling program for an all-cello orchestra. Brazilian
composer Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No.1 (1932)
combines elements of Bach's contrapuntal style with the vibrant
sounds of Latin America. Masterfully melding North American
jazz, African rhythms, South American folk sounds, and the
European classical tradition, Bachianas Brasileiras No.1 convincingly
integrates music from four continents -- truly appropriate
for One World Symphony. Villa-Lobos, who was himself a cellist,
imbued this masterpiece with remarkable complexity, giving
it both a sunny and a meditative side.
Bach's music is both rejoiceful and reflective,
so it is especially beloved during the holiday season. One
World Symphony will perform an all-cello orchestration and
arrangement (by Laszlo Varga) of Bach's Partita No. 2 for
unaccompanied violin. This work probes profound musical,
emotion, and intellectual depths that so many composers have
arranged for various instruments: two-hand piano, left-hand
piano, organ, viola solo, guitars, full orchestra, and cello
orchestra.
Faithful to its tradition of performing new
music by up-and-coming composer, One World Symphony will
also perform a world-premiere composition by Stanley Grill,
entitled Vignettes -- Winter Trees. This piece is
an intimate musical setting, for mezzo-sopranos and cellos,
of poems by William Carlos Williams. Stanley Grill was raised
in the Bronx, studied at the Bronx House School of Music,
and later graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with
undergraduate and graduate degrees in music theory. Grill's Vignettes
-- Winter Trees functions on many levels, as a reflection
on winter and as an introspective exploration of love and
loss.
Conductor: Sung
Jin Hong
Mezzo-sopranos:
Elena McEntire
Amber Smoke
CELLOBRATION:
Catherine Bent
Jessica Cesana
Dale Dyer
Katsura Mori
James Pedersen
Jessie Reagen
Leo Robinson
Gil Selinger
Leigh Stewart
Simone Uranovsky
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