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Category: viola

Tuesday, September 5th

alone

Rose Wollman (viola), live (performing the program on Loop: Ligeti’s Inspiration & Legacy [Acis, 2022]),* Chicago, 8/20/23

*Program:

I
1. Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: I. Prelude (Arr. for Viola)

2. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: I. Hora Lunga

3. Garth Knox, Ritorno

II

4. Giuseppe Tartini, Violin Sonata XVII in D Major, B. D2: IV. Furlana (Arr. for Viola)

5. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: II. Loop

6. Alexander Mansour, Loop for Solo Viola and Electronics

III

7. Domenico Gabrielli, Ricercar for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Minor (Arr. for Viola)

8. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: III. Facsar

9. Rose Wollman, Wanderlust

IV

10. Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Sonata, Op. 5, No. 6: III. Allegro (Arr. for Viola)

11. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: IV. Prestissimo con sordino

12. Atar Arad, Caprice Fourteen (Gyorgy)

V

13. Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia for Violin Without Bass No. 12 in A Minor, TWV 40:25: I. Moderato (Arr. for Viola)

14. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: V. Lamento

15. Melia Watras, Blue Rose

VI

16. Franz Biber, Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas: 16. Passacaglia in G Minor (Arr. for Viola)

17. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: VI. Chaconne chromatique

18. Natalie Williams, Ciklus

 

Thursday, June 15th

sounds of New York

Michael Attias (alto saxophone), Mat Maneri (viola), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Tom Rainey (drums), live, New York (Main Drag, Brooklyn), 3/29/23

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago

Tuesday, February 14th

like nothing else

Mat Maneri (viola), Brandon Lopez (bass), live, New York (Fridman Gallery), 8/30/22

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

Friday, December 23rd

what’s new: sounds of Chicago

Hamid Drake (drums and percussion [MCOTD Hall of Fame]) & Michael Zerang (drums and percussion) with Mark Feldman (violin), Josh Berman (cornet), Mabel Kwan (piano), Kent Kessler (bass), Zahra Glenda Baker (voice), et al., live (performance begins at 32:30), last night, Chicago (Constellation)

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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

Monday, December 19th

never enough

Why not begin the week with something beautiful?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano in E-flat major (K. 498): William Hudgins (clarinet), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Victor Rosenbaum (piano), live, Boston, 2019

Tuesday, December 13th

How about a trip to Cologne?

Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne (François-Xavier Roth [1971-], cond.) with Antoine Tamestit (1979-, viola), live, Cologne (Germany), 5/10/22: Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), The Viola in My Life IV (1970)

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

Thursday, December 8th

alone

Antoine Tamestit (1979-, viola), Paris, 5/16/20: Max Reger (1873-1916), Solo Suite No. 1 in G-minor (1915)

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reading table

You would want to be an awful fool not to know that we only bloom once.

—writer Colm Toibin (1955-) quoting writer John McGahern (1934-2006), from a conversation shortly before his death (London Review of Books, 1/27/22)

Monday, November 14th

more

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Clarinet Quintet (K. 581): Armida Quartet with Sabine Meyer (clarinet), live, Italy (Merano [aka Meran]), 2019

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xTNbclgU3h4%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D0%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

Saturday, November 12th

timeless

One-word review: astonishing.

Anton Webern (1883-1945), Five Movements for String Quartet (Op. 5), 1909: Juilliard String Quartet

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musical thoughts

If I was in a deserted island I would take the complete works of J. S. Bach, A. Webern and Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart.

—YouTube comment

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random sights

other day, Chicago

Wednesday, October 19th

alone

Kim Kashkashian (viola), live, Cambridge, Mass., 2018, playing György Kurtág (1926-)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bmi4Y6a1fHQ%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D0%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

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other day, Chicago