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| ### Encore: John Corigliano: Caprice | ### Encore: John Corigliano: Caprice |
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| John Corigliano (b. 1938): _Caprice_ from _the Red Violin_ (1999), performed by Philippe Quint, solo violin | John Corigliano (b. 1938): Variation No. 5 of _Caprice_ from _the Red Violin_ (1999), performed by Philippe Quint, solo violin |
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| 01. [7:55 PM] (unidentified excerpt: Main theme and one or more variations) | 01. [7:55 PM] Variation No. 5 |
| [set ends 7:58 PM; applause and bows, then all off just after 8 PM] | [set ends 7:58 PM; applause and bows, then all off just after 8 PM] |
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| ## Notes | ## Notes |
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| I like hearing brand new music, so starting this season and tonight's concert with a brand new piece by Paul Dresher seemed like a grand idea. This work, _Crazy Eights & Fractured Symmetries_, seemed very different to me than the _Concerto for Quadrachord & Orchestra_ that opened the 2012 season [xref](:2012:2012-10:2012-10-04). Today's piece seemed to bear more than a bit of influence from Philip Glass, seeing as the majority of the work was filled with arpeggios (the crazy eights?) that zigged and zagged this way and that across the orchestral landscape. I'd certainly like to hear the work again, especially if it were taken up by a crack ensemble determined to polish it up to a fierce shine. | I like hearing brand new music, so starting this season and tonight's concert with a brand new piece by Paul Dresher seemed like a grand idea. This work, _Crazy Eights & Fractured Symmetries_, seemed very different to me than the _Concerto for Quadrachord & Orchestra_ that opened the 2012 season [xref](:2012:2012-10:2012-10-04), or _Cornucopia_, performed in 2010 [xref](:2010:2010-02:2010-02-11). Today's piece seemed to bear more than a bit of influence from Philip Glass, seeing as the majority of the work was filled with arpeggios (the crazy eights?) that zigged and zagged this way and that across the orchestral landscape. I'd certainly like to hear the work again, especially if it were taken up by a crack ensemble determined to polish it up to a fierce shine. |
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| Tonight's showcase piece, the Korngold violin concerto, was certainly lush and romantic -- fitting the advertised bill of fare -- and while I enjoyed it, I could also see why some critics decried it for being too melodramatic or schmaltzy. I suppose it comes down to whether you think that the emotions being conveyed are genuine or merely affectations. I'll give Korngold the benefit of the doubt and presume that he was being sweet rather than saccharine. I don't know that I'd care to listen to the piece again soon, but I'd prefer it to most of the atonal modern music that critics and composers of the 20th Century seemed to champion instead. | Tonight's showcase piece, the Korngold violin concerto, was certainly lush and romantic -- fitting the advertised bill of fare -- and while I enjoyed it, I could also see why some critics decried it for being too melodramatic or schmaltzy. I suppose it comes down to whether you think that the emotions being conveyed are genuine or merely affectations. I'll give Korngold the benefit of the doubt and presume that he was being sweet rather than saccharine. I don't know that I'd care to listen to the piece again soon, but I'd prefer it to most of the atonal modern music that critics and composers of the 20th Century seemed to champion instead. |
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| I really enjoyed hearing the solo encore from Philippe -- he's an amazing musician -- but I'm flumoxxed as to exactly how he compressed a roughly 10 minute, 6-part work \(cf. [Corigliano's info page](http://www.johncorigliano.com/index.php?p=item2&item=57)\) down to a three minute encore. | I really enjoyed hearing the solo encore from Philippe -- he's an amazing musician -- <del>but I'm flumoxxed as to exactly how he compressed a roughly 10 minute, 6-part work \(cf. [Corigliano's info page](http://www.johncorigliano.com/index.php?p=item2&item=57)\) down to a three minute encore</del>. Lou Fancher posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/berkeley-symphony/dresher-delights-in-berkeley-symphony-opener) of the show for SFCV -- my thanks to her for clarifying the derivation of Philippe Quint's encore. |
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| I found the final half of tonight's show, the 1947 revision of Stravinsky's _Petrushka_, rather difficult to follow. Without the visual cues of the ballet/theatre, nor anything resembling a full-stop in the musical performance, it was really hard pinpointing where the sections given in the program started or stopped. I can understand why some recordings offer the piece as a single track, or break it down only by the four main scenes. I dunno. I probably should have just shut my eyes and listened instead of trying to hear the musical cues mentioned in the program as characteristic of each movement. (And you, dear reader, should realize that's a backhanded way for me to admit that the timing I gave above for this piece is more or less a hopeful shot in the dark). | I found the final half of tonight's show, the 1947 revision of Stravinsky's _Petrushka_, rather difficult to follow. Without the visual cues of the ballet/theatre, nor anything resembling a full-stop in the musical performance, it was really hard pinpointing where the sections given in the program started or stopped. I can understand why some recordings offer the piece as a single track, or break it down only by the four main scenes. I dunno. I probably should have just shut my eyes and listened instead of trying to hear the musical cues mentioned in the program as characteristic of each movement. (And you, dear reader, should realize that's a backhanded way for me to admit that the timing I gave above for this piece is more or less a hopeful shot in the dark). |
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| Lou Fancher posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/berkeley-symphony/dresher-delights-in-berkeley-symphony-opener) of the show for SFCV -- my thanks to her for clarifying the derivation of Philippe Quint's encore. | |
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