Chicago's Cedille Records, which draws on the talent and scenes of the City of Neighborhoods, may offer an ideal blueprint for classical music's revival. Releases like this document music-making that has succeeded with audiences in a specific time and place, and the label has highlighted performers who have a knack for finding contemporary music that resonates with audiences. The Grant Park Orchestra heard on this disc is the top-notch ensemble heard in the massive free concerts heard in the summer on Chicago's lakefront, ...
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Chicago's Cedille Records, which draws on the talent and scenes of the City of Neighborhoods, may offer an ideal blueprint for classical music's revival. Releases like this document music-making that has succeeded with audiences in a specific time and place, and the label has highlighted performers who have a knack for finding contemporary music that resonates with audiences. The Grant Park Orchestra heard on this disc is the top-notch ensemble heard in the massive free concerts heard in the summer on Chicago's lakefront, and the two shorter Aaron Jay Kernis works at the beginning of the program, Newly Drawn Sky and Too Hot Toccata, were actually recorded live in the unusual shell in the new Millennium Park area adjoining the original Grant Park, and Newly Drawn Sky was written expressly for outdoor performance. Despite what were probably difficult performance and recording conditions, the orchestral strings maintain impressive control. It works beautifully, and you wonder why so few other contemporary...
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