On Saturday February 18th, Elmar Oliveira plays Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto with the Evansville Philharmonic. When choosing soloists for the concert, find out why music director Alfred Savia said, “Elmar was my absolute first choice.” Read more here.
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WQXR-Q2 highlights the music of this Pulitzer Prize and Grawemeyer Award-winning American composer. Check out this thoughtful overview and listen to his music.
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San Francisco Chronicle reader John Rogers of New London, NH asked music critic Joshua Kosman for an introductory list “to the world of fine orchestral compositions of the last 50 years.” Kosman called Aaron Jay Kernis’ Symphony No. 2 “An impassioned cry of protest.”...
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On September 17th, Music from Copland House kicked off its 2011-12 season with its smash hit “Late Night with Leonard Bernstein.” The intimate program showcased the composer’s daughter, Jamie...
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Elmar Oliveira,Violin Korngold: Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra Puerto Rico Symphony/Maximo Valdes October 15, 2011 “The Austro-Hungarian composer Erich W. Korngold is considered one of the ‘founders’...
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WORLD PREMIERE: Symphony Space, NYC September 24, 2011 PORTALS – an full-evening multimedia musical exploration of the human longing for connection in the digital age featuring violinist Tim...
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Spotlighting the elegant violin artistry of Elmar Oliveira and under the direction of Stewart Robertson, Symphony Syracuse brought all the lush color of a Central New York autumn into...
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“An American Perspective” October 22, 2011 Contemporary Directions Ensemble/Christopher James Lee University of Michigan The second half of the concert was…no less potent, than the first. It began with...
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Premiered in 2009, the three-movement “Concerto with Echoes” was commissioned by… Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as part of a project to create companion pieces for each of Bach’s six “Brandenburg”...
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