Nashville Symphony Goes Electric With Violinist Tracy Silverman
Saturday, May 12, 2012
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Spring for Music 2012
From May 7 through 12, WQXR presented six live broadcasts from the Spring for Music festival, an annual showcase for the most creative programming ideas among North American orchestras.
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The Nashville Symphony arrives with Nashville-based electric violinist Tracy Silverman, the featured soloist on a new piece written for him by Terry Riley. In addition, the orchestra will perform the New York premiere of Charles Ives's monumental Universe Symphony (Austin realization). Elliott Forrest and David Garland host the program.
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Tracy Silverman, Electric Violin
IVES: Universe Symphony (as realized and completed by Larry Austin) (New York Premiere)
TERRY RILEY: The Palmian Chord Ryddle for Electric Violin and Orchestra (New York Premiere)
GRAINGER: The Warriors
ENCORE: Roberto Sierra: Symphony No. 4, Fourth Movement
Below is the archive of our live chat from Saturday's broadcast:
In this video, Gary from the Nashville Symphony talks about the technical challenges of Ives's Universe Symphony (including five different conductors and 14 different click-tracks):
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Comments [4]
Thank you WQXR for a wonderful week of live concerts!
The repertoire was stimulating, the performances were just great & the recordings & on-air presentation were wonderful!!!
Keep it up - you are doing the Musical World a great service!!!!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU,
David Jaeger
Toronto
First of all: Nashville Symphony and WQXR needs to stop listing the Ives piece as a NY premiere, which it is not -- the communications director said it was an oversight that they did not make it clear that it was the Austin rather than the far superior realization done by Johnny Reinhard and the American Festival of Microtonal music that premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 1996 -- which had no click tracks in it and was performed by 2 conductors -- this is not the space for a long discussion on this but credit should be given where credit is due, otherwise it's just musical politics...
First of all: Nashville Symphony and WQXR needs to stop listing the Ives piece as a NY premiere, which it is not -- the communications director said it was an oversight that they did not make it clear that it was the Austin rather than the far superior realization done by Johnny Reinhard and the American Festival of Microtonal music that premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 1996 -- which had no click tracks in it and was performed by 2 conductors -- this is not the space for a long discussion on this but credit should be given where credit is due, otherwise it's just musical politics...
Heard this concert Thursday in Houston...Mikhail Svetlov pours himself into the characters he portrays. This short piece is an incredible eye opener of
Stalin's threats to Russian composers. Bravo Shostakovich for lampooning the bureaucrats and Bravo Hans Graf for bringing it to Houston.
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