HEAR IT - Humanity's Expressive Artists Reveal & Illuminate Truth

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 act...

If music is magic, this sorcerer's ruse commenced with a facade of easy pastels, pleasantly drawn with facile dexterity. Then, without warning, sharp arrows begin piercing the canvass, as darker realities emerge from below... Such was the spell cast by Benjamin Beilman, the 27-year-old violinist, in collaboration with pianist Anna Polonsky, in the opening concert of the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music 2017-2018 season, October 15, 2017. Of course, music is not really magic – at least not of that variety – but an in-the-moment expression of an interpretive artist's cumulative experience of a composer's ideas. The admirable constants of Beilman's performance here were a strongly projected full tone and a penetrating delivery. All cresting waves, calm waters, and dark depths were explored from a very even keel – a captivating journey from beginning to close.          The most balanced crafting of contrasting emotions arrived immediately with Beethoven's Pian...

University of Arizona Faculty Recital "The Magic of Mendelssohn" September 7, 2016 Tucson, Arizona It has been far too hot for way too long in this Northern Sonora Desert town, and too dry of the soul-feeding, endlessly nuanced emotional sustenance a live concert of great chamber music can provide. Well, this is the time to rejoice, as University of Arizona students and teachers are back. Autumn's relief has finally arrived! Last night, September 7th, a coterie of UA music students and spiritually-dehydrated Old Pueblo denizens rushed bravely through the dying remnants of Hurricane Newton, to hear the University of Arizona, Fred Fox School of Music Violin and Piano Faculty Duo of Lauren Roth and John Milbauer, perform Beethoven and Vaughn Williams. Cellist Marybeth Brown-Palmbeck later joined them for the ever-invigorating and deservedly revered war horse, Mendelssohn's Piano Trio #1, Op. 49. As Holsclaw Hall's very modest seating capacity of 204 qu...