Saturday Jan 20, Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard in New York City, the members of the Ahn Trio—sisters Maria, Lucia, and Angella—are redefining the art and architecture of chamber music, breathing new life into the standard piano trio literature with commissioned works from visionary composers like Pat Metheny, Kenji Bunch, Maurice Jarre, Nikolai Kapustin and Michael Nyman.
Lucia, Angella, and Maria thrive on dissolving the barriers between art forms. Possessing an enviable combination of talent and style, they have long been natural subjects for the international press. Pianist Azusa Hokugo, who has concertized in Asia and the U. Additionally, she has participated as the 4th member of the Ahn Trio in chamber recitals alongside the Spokane, WA and Owensboro, KY symphony orchestras. Jessie Montgomery b. Exploding gestures are juxtaposed with gentle fleeting melodies in an attempt to create a multidimensional soundscape.
During the Baroque era, the Concerto Grosso with its multiple—most often three—soloists, gradually gave way to the solo concerto. The Archduke could command the services of violinist Ignaz Seidler and cellist Anton Kraft as fellow soloists, but a performance by the three never materialized. It is still seldom performed, but that is due more to its extravagant solo requirements than to any perceived lack of quality in the music itself. The above notes, by former Symphony librarian Jeffrey M.
Igor Stravinsky — Suite from Pulcinella. Impresario Sergei Diaghilev — set early 20 th -century Paris ablaze with his legendary Ballets Russes in Over the next 20 years he commissioned groundbreaking scores from many of the leading composers of the day, including Debussy, Ravel, Strauss, Falla, Prokofiev, and, most importantly, Igor Stravinsky. It was Diaghilev who gave a young Stravinsky his first big career break, and the two enjoyed a fruitful—and, at times, contentious—collaboration, beginning with the pre-WWI triumphs of The Firebird , Petrushka , and The Rite of Spring.
Unfolding in one act, the story follows the title character; his girlfriend, Pimpinella; his friends Furbo, Prudenza and Rosetta, and his not-so-friends Florindo and Cloviello, as they stumble through a farcical series of intrigues involving love, deception, and disguise, before happily ending—of course—with marriages for all the couples. For the music, Diaghilev asked Stravinsky to orchestrate a collection of unpublished instrumental works mostly string trios, canzones, and the like by the 18th-century composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and others which he had discovered in Naples.
