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Tristan und Isbin / Scaglione e Corigliano / Tucson Symphony Orchestra

Sharon Isbin, Guitar Case Scaglione, Guest Conductor Tucson Symphony Orchestra, 15 November 2019 Case Scaglione, guest conductor Sharon Isbin, guitar Sharon Isbin, Corigliano's Troubadour John Corigliano's 'Troubadour', is a dream-like vision of the hard-working 12th Century musicians and poets, whose stories and songs helped define the meaning and range of Medieval chivalry and courtly love. As a composition, 'Troubadour' is a complete work of art and artifice; a very modern and reflective soundscape is engaged to imagine and to emulate, rather than whimsically imitate, a powerful musical tradition; one which left us almost no notation of the music they wrote and performed. The most striking aspect of 'Troubadour' is the series of delicately assembled ethereal sonorities, including micro-tones and slow, harmonized tone-bending by woodwind instruments, all culled from a chamber-like ensemble of about thirty players. Some of these,