Naxos' Jamestown Concerto: American Music for Cello and Orchestra features cellist Yehuda Hanani with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under William Eddins in a program of one twenty first century American cello concerto with two more from the previous century. The newer work is Jamestown Concerto by William Perry, composed in 2007 to celebrate the quadricentennial of the founding of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent European settlement in what became the United States of America. Long before the fame ...
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Naxos' Jamestown Concerto: American Music for Cello and Orchestra features cellist Yehuda Hanani with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under William Eddins in a program of one twenty first century American cello concerto with two more from the previous century. The newer work is Jamestown Concerto by William Perry, composed in 2007 to celebrate the quadricentennial of the founding of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent European settlement in what became the United States of America. Long before the fame of his name was usurped by a football playing "refrigerator," Perry was established as a composer of music for silent films and for his work on the PBS series The Silent Years. Folks who insist that contemporary composers are elitists who have completely lost touch with both the audience and music itself should really give a good listen to Perry's concerto. While its five-movement structure seems a bit discursive for a concerto and Perry cannot resist a certain amount of cinematic...
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