{"id":1609,"date":"2014-04-18T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2022-01-30T02:06:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T07:06:14","slug":"kernis-viola-concerto-star-trib-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/kernis-viola-concerto-star-trib-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Jay Kernis returns to Minnesota to debut viola concerto with SPCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Aaron Jay Kernis returns to Minnesota to debut viola concerto with SPCO<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Composer Aaron Jay Kernis, who quit the Minnesota Orchestra in protest last fall, brings a world premiere to St. Paul next weekend.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Graydon Royce Star Tribune<\/p>\n<p>April 18, 2014<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1610\" src=\"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Haseltine2-DO-NOT-USE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"177\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Composer Aaron Jay Kernis is eager and happy to hear the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra play the world premiere of his viola concerto with Paul Neubauer next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big piece \u2014 27 minutes in three movements \u2014 and it\u2019s been a lot of fun so closely working with Paul,\u201d said Kernis, who has been accompanying Neubauer on piano, playing the piece in house concerts the past month. \u201cHe\u2019s been playing it wonderfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertain parts are quite dark, pensive, and that very well suits the viola,\u201d Kernis said. \u201cThe piece is not a story exactly, but there are many searching and melancholy moments \u2014 a mixture of concern, unease, apprehension and hope.\u201dThe concerto, conducted by Roberto Abbado, will appear on a program with Haydn\u2019s 101st Symphony and Stravinsky\u2019s \u201cApollon Musag\u00e8te.\u201dKernis, who began working on the concerto last summer, drew more overt inspiration from Neubauer\u2019s playing and transcriptions of Robert Schumann\u2019s work for viola and piano. The second movement, he said, has a late-19th-century romantic quality, and the third is based on Yiddish folk tunes.<\/p>\n<p>Kernis won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for music and the 2002 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, which carries a $200,000 honorarium. The Grawemeyer cited his \u201cColored Field,\u201d which in a version for cello and orchestra was commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra and had its premiere in Minneapolis with cellist Truls M\u00f8rk in 2000. Kernis has taught at Yale since 2003, and lives in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is focused on the SPCO and Neubauer and this world premiere. Three more orchestras will perform the concerto through next November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SPCO was the beginning of my relationship with the Twin Cities,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to coming back, doing the walks around the lakes, reacquainting with people. I hope my associations with the area will go on for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Jay Kernis returns to Minnesota to debut viola concerto with SPCO Composer Aaron Jay Kernis, who quit the Minnesota Orchestra in protest last fall, brings a world premiere to St. Paul next weekend.\u00a0 By Graydon Royce Star Tribune April 18, 2014 &nbsp; Composer Aaron Jay Kernis is eager and happy to hear the St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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-1609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press","7":"related-artist-aaron-jay-kernis","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","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=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"related-artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related-artist?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}