{"id":2931,"date":"2021-03-05T00:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2021-03-05T00:48:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:48:31","slug":"kernis-sonatine-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/kernis-sonatine-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehnes & Weiss premiere Kernis’s Sonatine at Duke University"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JAMES EHNES, VIOLIN & ORION WEISS, PIANO<\/h1>\n

SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021 | 8 PM<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u00a0VIRTUAL SPRING<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Duke Performances is excited to present our\u00a0virtual season \u2013\u00a0<\/b>The Show Must Go Online!\u00a0<\/b><\/em>High-quality, commissioned films featuring artists originally slated for in-person performances will premiere on Vimeo for ticket holders. Each film, shot following local safety protocols, is made in collaboration with an audio and video crew in each artist\u2019s home city.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

General admission tickets are $10 per presentation and Duke Student tickets are available free of charge through the support of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke University.\u00a0Chamber Arts Series subscriptions<\/strong>, including all three concerts, are available at a discount of 25% off for $22.50.\u00a0Tickets go off sale at 8 PM ET on the day of the presentation.<\/strong>\u00a0Ticket buyers will receive a unique Vimeo link to watch the presentation online from the Duke University Box Office before the listed start time. Films will be available for viewing for 72 hours.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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Renowned recitalist\u00a0James Ehnes\u00a0<\/strong>makes his Duke Performances debut with pianist\u00a0Orion Weiss<\/strong>\u00a0in a programme of violin sonatas from across two centuries. Ehnes, \u2018a violinist in a class of his own\u2019 (The Times<\/em>), leads with a light, lyrical sonatina by Schubert, before moving on to Prokofiev\u2019s Sonata No. 2 in D Major, which is both virtuosic and expressive due to the fact that it was originally written for flute. The pair will then turn their attention to\u00a0Sonatine<\/em>, a recent work by Aaron Jay Kernis, one of the youngest composers to have ever been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Kernis and Ehnes are longterm collaborators, having won a Grammy together in 2019 for the violinist\u2019s recording of the Kernis\u2019s Violin Concerto, which\u00a0BBC Music Magazine<\/em>\u00a0praised as being an \u2018incredibly powerful live performance, the taxing violin part superbly executed.\u2019 Stepping back again to the 19th century, Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019s First Sonata concludes the evening, a piece first premiered in 1885 with the composer himself at the piano.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Freya Parr<\/p>\n

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Schubert:<\/strong>\u00a0Sonata in G Minor, D. 408
\nProkofiev:<\/strong>\u00a0Sonata No. 2 in D Major, op. 94a
\nKernis:<\/strong>\u00a0Sonatine<\/em>
\nSaint-Sa\u00ebns:<\/strong>\u00a0Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, op. 75<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Student tickets for Duke Performances\u2019 virtual season are made possible through generous support from the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke University.<\/em><\/p>\n

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