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Anne-Marie McDermott James Judd 2 November 2018: McDERMOTT FINDS MOZART'S PATHOS Anne-Marie McDermott is a very versatile pianist. Tucsonans have known and admired her performances with Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for over twenty years. In a revelation of power, passion, and pathos, before recording the complete, heavyweight Prokofiev Piano Sonatas in 2009, she performed all of them in succession in Tucson over several consecutive days. Her discography of both solo and chamber works stretches from Bach to the moderns, including Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin, and celebrated contemporary composer Charles Wuorinen . Last night, crisp and clear, McDermott's performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto #27 was not dainty. And for this last of Mozart's concerti, the ensemble is quite small, which made for a great overall balance of sound. For Mozart, this concerto is very lyrical and less filled with complexities than his great ones just precedin

REVIEW:  2 November 2018 MIDORI plays Brahms Violin Concerto GENESIS And God said:   Let the Earth put forth "each greenery".  And it was so (Japanese: 五嶋みどり ; English transliteration:  Midori Goto ) .  'OMG, thank you!' , re joiced the people, transfixed  by Midori's music, as they basked in the Glory of receiving on Earth this Divine inspiration from He who dwells beyond the canopy of stars. As bright as a meteor was the beginning of Midori's concert career; shining on stage with Zubin Mehta and the NYPO at age 11, a headlining performance with Bernstein at Tanglewood at age 14; and conquering Carnegie Hall with a dazzling full recital at age 18.  Thirty years into a spectacular concert and recording career,  that has taken us far beyond the normal bounds of concert artist,  Midori has become a true citizen of the world. Highly active as an educator, promoter of opportunities for young musicians, and an activist Messenger of Peace, Mi

 Inspirational Musical Master MIDORI  performs BRAHMS  Violin Concerto  with JOSÉ LUIS GOMEZ and  the  TUSCON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MIDORI GOTO This Friday evening, 2 November 2018, at 7:30 P.M., world-renowned concert violinist, dedicated educator, and global music ambassador Midori Goto will perform the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Music Director, José Luis Gomez . Midori, who performed in Carnegie Hall   with orchestra  at the tender age of eleven, brings striking, penetrating musicality and dazzling technique to all repertoire she covers.  Midori's riveting stage presence flows from an endless series of supple rotations, as w hole body motions are applied to each note , arpeggio, double-stop, and  trill. Not only by  virtuosity do her performances thrill.  T he delicacy and power Midori draws from the 1734 Guarnerius del Gesu ex-Huberman violin she plays, belie her petite physical stature. On stage, Midori appears as a

Yolanda Kondonassis José Luis Gomez REVIEW, Tucson Symphony Orchestra , 12 October 2018: Following his overall smashing Inaugural Season as TSO Music Director, Maestro José Luis Gomez said, for his second season, he would show us his Latin side. This concert delivered two fine South American masterworks, counterbalanced by Johannes Brahms orchestral coming-out party – his first symphony, completed at age 43. "...and she was hanging from my lips, as the word of flesh that made the Poem live, because I told him, fr iends, the Parable of the Volcano and the Seven Stars."   ~  Andrés Eloy Blanco 'El Río de las Siete Estrellas' (The River of the Seven Stars) is Evencio Castellanos' seminal orchestral musical political history of Venezuela – a tour de force of orchestral coloration and of artistic settings of suggestive fragments of folkloric melodies. In tracing Venezuela's journey of “discovery” by Christopher Columbus, through

FIRST HALF ONLY Concert Review: F riday, 21 September 2018 in Tucson, was a night for the violinistas ! Consummate concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers gave a deeply musical, masterly Beethoven performance to kick off the Tucson Symphony Orchestra's 90th Season. Then, celebrating the semicentennial of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey', the TSO delivered an exciting, dramatic, and colorful performance of Richard Strauss's penetrating and profound tone poem 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', featuring talented Concertmaster Loren Roth and Associate Concertmaster Michelle Abraham . Finally, pressed hard by the audience for an encore, Maestro Jose Luis Gomez and orchestra waltzed us into a gloriously uplifting azure bliss to conclude this spellbinding odyssey. A nne Akiko Meyers' stage presence is striking , spirited, sensuous, and engaging. On this night, it was as if a beautiful, over-sized, super-musically-talented red flower blossom just happen