Today we preview our next violinist in the 2014 YAD Concert line up at the Portland5 Centers for the Arts and broadcast with All Classical Portland. TONIGHT you can also get a sneak peek of the 2014 Concert at Kennedy Violins 6:00pm, where four of our violinists will perform...including Kristina Dill! Kristina Dill of Brush Prairie, Washington is an 18 year-old violinist and studies with Carol Sindell. Kristina is a junior at Lewis & Clark College and will perform Ravel’s Tzigane. History Lesson time: The name of the piece is derived from the generic European term for gypsy (in French: gitan, tsigane or tzigane rather than the Hungarian cigány) although it does not use any authentic Gypsy melodies. Note that in Ravels days in Paris gypsy/gitan/tsigane/tzigane did not so much refer to the Roma (Gypsy) people in any strict sense: the gypsy style of the work was rather a kind of popular musical exoticism, comparable to the Spanish exoticism in Wagners day. Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel. It was commissioned by and dedicated to Hungarian violinist Jelly dArányi, great-niece of the influential violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim. The original instrumentation was for violin and piano (with optional luthéal attachment). The first performance took place in London on April 26, 1924 with the dedicatee on violin and with Henri Gil-Marchex at the piano (with luthéal). youtube/watch?v=MqAqQiP61co&feature=kp Book your tickets today at portland5/newmark-theatre/events/young-artists-concert
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:08:53 +0000
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