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09-Apr-2010
by Kevin Friedrich
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 The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Minnesota) featured Dee Langley on accordion during its recent performance of Thomas Adès’ work ‘Chamber Symphony for 15 Players, Opus 2’. Program notes described the work and his role for the accordion as follows: “Fractured jazz sonorities predominate in the first movement, with pizzicato bass, muted trumpet, and sinuous licks from the basset and bass clarinets. The airy second movement begins with a low rumble of notes from the prepared piano, a sound that cycles repeatedly underneath the hovering upper layers. The accordion makes a tentative entrance, but soon the music accelerates into the flowing triplets and swoops of the third section; this breaks off suddenly at the climax, leaving only the quiet wheezing of the accordion to start the final slow section. Ghostly blooms from the strings and deep responses from the clarinets spin out to a whispered conclusion.” The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, now in its 51st season, is the nation’s only full-time professional chamber orchestra and is widely regarded as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world. Welcoming the Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Donata Cabrera, this St. Paul Concert marked his debut with the orchestra. President of the Accordionists & Teachers Guild, International (ATG), Dee Langley specializes in both solo and ensemble work on the accordion and has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Ancia Quartet, Minnesota Sinfonia, Minneapolis Philharmonic and Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra. |