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The Music from Copland House ensemble brings Paul Moravec’s Tempest Fantasy to WQXR in a Café Concert in advance of its concert at Caramoor.
March 22, 2011
Aaron Jay Kernis finished his two-year stint as Astral Artists’ first composer in residence with two spectacular pieces that starred a spectacular soprano. Kernis has been blessed with a genius for choosing texts.
March 19, 2011
Berlioz’s “Harold in Italy,” with the San Diego Symphony and viola soloist Cynthia Phelps, was a tour de force.
Aaron Jay Kernis composed ‘A Voice, a Messenger,’ a concerto for trumpet and orchestra, for Philip Smith and the New York Philharmonic. The New York Philharmonic has championed Mr. Kernis’s music since 1983, when the composer was only 23 years old. “It had something that appealed to me,” Mr. Smith says. “It was music that reflected his faith.”
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra opens its season Oct. 8 at Carnegie Hall with a program of Stravinsky, Bach and Beethoven. The evening leads off with the world-premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Concerto with Echoes.