Lara St. John is a performer whose requirements concerning contemporary music are quite stringent, and it has nothing to do with an especially conservative outlook on her part or other not well-considered assumptions. St. John -- like any concert artist -- is constantly on the lookout for new and interesting pieces to perform, and as a star performer, she has to maintain standards that are bit more exclusive than would be the norm for a violinist. Like most violin players, both stars and non-stars, she has been saddled with ...
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Lara St. John is a performer whose requirements concerning contemporary music are quite stringent, and it has nothing to do with an especially conservative outlook on her part or other not well-considered assumptions. St. John -- like any concert artist -- is constantly on the lookout for new and interesting pieces to perform, and as a star performer, she has to maintain standards that are bit more exclusive than would be the norm for a violinist. Like most violin players, both stars and non-stars, she has been saddled with a work here and there that didn't work for her. For the first release of contemporary music on her own Ancalagon imprint, featuring St. John as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic under Sarah Ioannides, she would not have gone forward without ensuring that the music within was right for her.Luckily for St. John there is Australian composer Matthew Hindson. In the part of the world where Hindson lives and works, the heritage of composers such as New Zealand's Douglas Lilburn is just...
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