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19-Jan-2018
John Torcello and the LA Philharmonic New Music Groupby Kevin Friedrich |
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 Accordionist John Torcello will perform with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group under the direction of Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki in the Green Umbrella series directed by John Adams, which promotes original works, on Tuesday January 23 at 8.00 PM at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.Career highlights for John, 1972 Coupe Mondiale World Champion, include appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Pasadena Pops/Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Long Beach Opera, Jacaranda Music and Idyllwild Arts Orchestra under conductors including Michael Tilson Thomas, Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Andreas Mitisek, Rachel Worby, Carl St. Clair, John Williams, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel in works by composers including DelTredici, Berg, Ades, Weill, Piaf, Kagel, Ortiz, Golijov, Bernstein, Piazzolla, Shostakovitch, Dean, Eo¨tvo¨s, Romer and Zappa. John's LA Philharmonic performance is part of Marcos Balter's new chamber work, an LA Philharmonic commission entitled, “Things Fall Apart”; scored for woodwinds, brass, percussion, harp, piano, accordion and strings. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Marcos Balter studied in the U.S., graduating with honors from Northwestern University, where his teachers included Augusta Read Thomas, Amy Williams, and Jay Alan Yim. He has held positions at several universities, and is currently an Associate Professor of Music Composition at Montclair State University. His collaborators range from the Mivos Quartet to Deerhoof, and from the International Contemporary Ensemble to the Orquestra Experimental da Amazonas Filarmônica. His commissions have come from presenters ranging from Chamber Music America to the MacArthur Foundation, and his works have been featured in venues from Carnegie Hall and Le Poisson Rouge to the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival and the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. The title of the piece comes from W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” (which also provided the title for Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart). “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” Yeats wrote, and Balter does play with a type of musical entropy here. But there is also a sense of searching and even coalescence, and there is no “mere anarchy” to this formally rounded music. The Concert is presented by members of the LA Philharmonic (Susanna Mälkki, Conductor), The Lyris Quartet, Joanne Pearce Martin, piano and Charles Bascou, electronics. The program will featured four works as follows: Francesca Verunelli - Unfolding (for string quartet); Marcos Balter - Things Fall Apart (world premiere, LA Phil commission); Francesco Filidei - Toccata, per pianoforte and Helmut Lachenmann - Mouvement (– vor der Erstarrung). |