{"id":193,"date":"2009-03-10T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/?p=193"},"modified":"2011-11-26T23:13:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:13:29","slug":"carnegie-hall-chicago-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/2009\/03\/10\/carnegie-hall-chicago-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"CARNEGIE HALL | Yes to Jan\u00e1\u010dek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 9, 2009 at 8 PM<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiehall.org\/article\/box_office\/events\/evt_9729.html\">CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, dir. Pierre Boulez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pre-concert talk by Ara Guzelimian, Provost &amp; Dean, The Juilliard School.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAN\u00c1\u010cEK<\/strong>  |  Sinfonietta<br \/>\n<strong>SZYMANOWSKI<\/strong>  |  Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35. Soloist: Frank Peter Zimmermann<br \/>\n<strong>STRAVINSKY<\/strong>  |  Pulcinella (complete). Soloists: Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone)<\/p>\n<p>The Jan\u00e1\u010dek work was surprisingly revelatory\u2014a work, one feels, modeled on nothing but its own sense of wonder and exuberance\u2014and a reminder of Boulez\u2019s tremendous contribution to programming.  The opening twelve-trumpet fanfare immediately engages, yet so many ideas spring up and develop\u2014entailing some transportingly beautiful spots for strings\u2014before it returns again to close the work.  Once in a while one hears for the first time, in concert or on the radio, a work one knows must urgently join one&#8217;s own inner repertoire; this piece had that effect.  Juilliard Dean Ara Guzelimian\u2019s fluent pre-concert lecture nicely evoked the faintly magical role of Kamila St\u00f6sslov\u00e1\u2014the 25 year-old wife of a small-town antiques dealer, with whom Jan\u00e1\u010dek fell in love at 63 and who became the wellspring of nearly all of his important (i.e., late) output.<\/p>\n<p>For my tastes the Szymanowski concerto suffers a bit from overlong lyricism\u2014and its orchestration suggests more fantasia than concerto\u2014but Zimmermann rendered the work with impressive precision, meeting its demand that the violinist stay strenuously in his instrument\u2019s highest, most wracking range while producing notes of dreamlike delicacy.<\/p>\n<p>A delight as always to hear <i>Pulcinella<\/i> again, especially so soon after seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/douglasdunndance.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=125&amp;Itemid=5\">Douglas Dunn&#8217;s exhilarating, hilarious choreography<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 9, 2009 at 8 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, dir. Pierre Boulez Pre-concert talk by Ara Guzelimian, Provost &amp; Dean, The Juilliard School. JAN\u00c1\u010cEK | Sinfonietta SZYMANOWSKI | Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35. Soloist: Frank Peter Zimmermann STRAVINSKY | Pulcinella (complete). Soloists: Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone) The Jan\u00e1\u010dek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13879,39,2328],"tags":[9463,5842,5830,13252,19808,13878,13249,13253,6584,13250,13255,13254,13251],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","category-music","category-nyc","tag-ballet","tag-boulez","tag-carnegie-hall","tag-chicago-symphony-orchestra","tag-dance","tag-douglas-dunn","tag-janacek","tag-pulcinella","tag-stravinsky","tag-szymanowski","tag-violin","tag-violinists","tag-zimmermann"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}