{"id":1593,"date":"2017-01-20T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2022-01-29T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T06:21:38","slug":"kerniss-comes-to-dso-for-flute-concerto-premiere-as-one-of-most-celebrated-composers-of-his-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/kerniss-comes-to-dso-for-flute-concerto-premiere-as-one-of-most-celebrated-composers-of-his-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernis&#8217;s comes to DSO for flute concerto premiere as one of most celebrated composers of his generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>DSO to premiere flute concerto by Aaron Jay Kernis<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Mark Stryker,<b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><em>January 20, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week the DSO\u00a0gives the world premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis&#8217; Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with soloist\u00a0Marina Piccinini.\u00a0 Once a wunderkind,\u00a0Kernis, now 56, comes to the DSO as one of the most celebrated composers of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Though Kernis is best known for the unabashedly neo-romantic lyricism of his music,\u00a0he works with\u00a0an eclectic toolbox.\u00a0His\u00a0Second Symphony, inspired by the Persian Gulf War, swirls\u00a0with massed dissonance, violence and consoling sadness. On the other hand, &#8220;100 Greatest Dance Hits&#8221; for guitar and string quartet is playful, pulsating with salsa, rock and disco rhythms. Other scores might channel\u00a0Beethoven, minimalism or Renaissance and baroque forms. &#8220;He\u2019s a fireball of energy,&#8221; said Slatkin.\u00a0&#8220;And you\u00a0never know what you\u2019re going to get. He runs a true stylistic gamut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The large-scaled\u00a0Flute Concerto is\u00a0cast in four movements and makes virtuoso demands on the soloist and orchestra. Kernis\u00a0said the piece balances darkness and light, and\u00a0each movement starts with an older dance form before moving in\u00a0other directions.\u00a0The finale references flute techniques associated with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and the jazz flutist Rahsaan\u00a0Roland Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>Kernis, who teaches at Yale, spoke from his home in New York. His\u00a0new concerto shares space on the\u00a0program with the 1996 Trumpet Concerto by John Williams, the multiple Oscar-winning composer.\u00a0As it happens, Kernis had just taken his son to see\u00a0&#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; whose music was\u00a0written by Williams. Unprompted, Kernis volunteered that the score was &#8220;fantastic.&#8221; That&#8217;s where the conversation started, before turning to today&#8217;s landscape and Kernis&#8217; own artistic concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See the full\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2016\/01\/20\/dso-premire-flute-kernis\/78676450\/\">story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSO to premiere flute concerto by Aaron Jay Kernis Mark Stryker,\u00a0\u00a0January 20, 2016 This week the DSO\u00a0gives the world premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis&#8217; Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with soloist\u00a0Marina Piccinini.\u00a0 Once a wunderkind,\u00a0Kernis, now 56, comes to the DSO as one of the most celebrated composers of his generation, having won the Pulitzer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"related-artist":[16],"class_list":{"0":"post-1593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press","8":"related-artist-aaron-jay-kernis","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"related-artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related-artist?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}