2007-2008 Season, Concert 1
October 18, 20 & 21, 2007
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes
Korde: Svara-Yantra (US Premiere)
[concerto for violin, tabla and orchestra]
Joanna Kurkowicz, violin
Samir Chatterjee, tabla
Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
You can download the program notes for this concert here
For the opening concert we are presenting our most unusual program ever. The orchestra is giving the American premiere of Svara-Yantra, a dazzling concerto for violin and tabla by local composer Shirish Korde that combines elements of Western music with instrumental techniques, rhythms, and scales peculiar to the music of India. It was composed especially for our beloved concertmistress Joanna Kurkowicz, who has performed it in Europe and Asia. It’s enthralling – I’m completely in love with it, and I know everyone who hears it next year will be spellbound. Complementing the concerto are works equally rich in color and in national identity – on the one hand, Ginastera’s exuberant, multi-faceted Variaciones concertantes, Argentinean in its flavor, and on the other, a world apart, Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
-Benjamin Zander
Joanna Kurkowicz, violin
"...strong impact, her playing holds one entralled demonstrating strong personality and assured technique."
-Strad Magazine
Samir Chatterjee, tabla
"The tabla virtuoso Chatterjeee's playing is unique among tabla artists...his impeccable mastery of rhythm is expressed with vocal-like quality."
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Sanders Theatre
Discovery Series, 7:30pm
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Jordan Hall
Pre-concert talk, 6:45pm
Concert, 8:00pm
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Sanders Theatre
Pre-concert talk, 1:45pm
Concert, 3:00pm
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Joanna Kurkowicz, violin
Samir Chatterjee, tabla |
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