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"I got very excited, of course, when I knew I was going to be playing the role and I was just living in a pure fantasy for three months going, "I get to do this and I get to do that and I get to do all my stunts and I get to wear the fucking costume and I get to hang out with kids in Queens and I get to research all that and I get to be a kid again..
In the Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists, Jonathan Haas and Evelyn Glennie create an intricate but hard-driven percussion layer around and within the orchestral fabric.
After two hours of music that strove to say a great deal at the American Symphony Orchestra's concert on Sunday afternoon (Ernst Krenek's Second Symphony and Harold Farberman's "Millennium Concerto"), Philip Glass's "Concerto Fantasy" for two timpanists and orchestra was welcome for saying just a little and doing so directly, strongly and with abounding good humor.
Svet Stoyanov will join Mr. Deitz in Glass's Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra.
That was doubly so (if not more) in Mr. Glass's Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists (2000), if only because the persistent thunder of two percussionists rolling their mallets across eight timpani drowned out the orchestra most of the time.
But when the New York Pops introduces New Jerseyans to "Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra" by Philip Glass, no fewer than 14 timpani will be fanned out across the stage at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
The playing was equally exacting and enthusiastic in the concert's opening work, Mark Lortz's effective arrangement of Mr. Glass's grandly buoyant Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, which featured Ji Hye Jung and Gwendolyn Burgett as the precise, animated soloists.
And for good measure, there have also been recent performances of Mr. Glass's "Concerto Fantasy" for two timpanists and orchestra on the West Coast and in Mexico, of his Concerto for Saxophone Quartet in Portugal, Spain and Germany, and of ballets using his music in England, Germany and France.
Tell me!" George's correspondence, it turns out, was also bogus, a fantasy concocted for ten cents a letter.
