The Westchester Philharmonic with Itzhak Perlman, conductor and violin, performs works by Bach, Mozart and Brahms.
Music and Dance ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The American Symphony Orchestra with Chanel Wood, soprano, and Erica Kiesewetter, violin, performs works by Barber, Sibelius and Strauss.
The Six Caprices for solo violin, brilliantly performed by Mieko Kanno, consist entirely of disembodied, whistle-like harmonics.
The work most decisively rooted in the late 19th century was Benjamin C. S. Boyle's Sonata-Fantasy, a violin work performed by Timothy Fain, with the composer at the piano.
All of these personal accounts of struggle and survival are accompanied by stark black-and-white still photography and film clips taken by the Nazis, as well as by piercing, Gypsy-flavored violin music performed by Robert McDuffie.
Directed by Charles Dance; written by Mr. Dance, based on the short story by William J. Locke; director of photography, Peter Biziou; edited by Michael Parker; music by Nigel Hess, with violin solos performed by Joshua Bell; production designer, Caroline Amies; produced by Nicolas Brown, Elizabeth Karlsen and Nik Powell; released by Roadside Attractions.
It is a happy coincidence that Naxos has just released a recording of the last public concert conducted by the great Polish composer Witold Lutosławski (1913-94), who led Toronto's superb New Music Concerts Ensemble in such compelling works as "Partita" and "Chain 2," both mini violin concertos performed confidently by Fujiko Imajishi.
Shortly before interval, when the crowd exited for a gasp of fresh air, Rumbewas and Eleby – in traditional dress, and holding a drum and guitar – joined with Gruner, in a plaid shirt and holding a violin; they performed a West Papuan protest song while dancing from one end to the other, in the night's most enjoyable performance.
A Concert for Lincoln Center WEDNESDAY -- Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra, with Sarah Chang on violin, will perform Dvorak's Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra and other works at a concert and dinner-dance in Avery Fisher Hall.
