In Thursday’s (3/3) South Bend Tribune (Indiana), Andrew Hughes previews the South Bend Symphony Orchestra’s March 6 concert, in which “all four works come from the first half of the 20th century, a period that [Music Director Tsung Yeh] regards as one of the freest and most important eras for composers.… During those 50 years, Yeh says, Romanticism co-existed with the period’s rejection of Romanticism by France’s Les Six, Arnold Schoenberg and others invented 12-tone harmony, and the increased incorporation of folk music into orchestral music paralleled the rise of nationalism in Europe and the United States.… The [South Bend Symphony] concert begins with Paul Hindemith’s Kammermusik, No. 1, a wild, energetic work from 1922 that calls for an accordion among its instruments.… The concert continues with Francis Poulenc’s “Le bal masque, Cantate profane,” from 1932. The vocal work features baritone Stephen Lancaster as the soloist … An associate professor of piano at Notre Dame, [pianist] John Blacklow joins the SBSO for … Leoš Janáček’s Concertino for Piano. The concert concludes with Aaron Copland’s ‘Music for Movies,’ an arrangement of five pieces from the first three films he scored.”
Posted March 4, 2016
Pictured: Leoš Janáček, whose Concertino for Piano will be performed on the South Bend Symphony Orchestra’s March 6 program
