Sometimes one has to take the good with the bad in life: take for example the husband and wife viola duo Scott Slapin and Tanya Solomon. The very week that Eroica Classical Recordings brought out their excellent debut recording, Sketches from the New World: American Viola Duos in the 21st Century, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Slapin and Solomon were both employed within the Louisiana Philharmonic, and the couple immediately found themselves without jobs, managing to escape with little more than their best instruments. ...
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Sometimes one has to take the good with the bad in life: take for example the husband and wife viola duo Scott Slapin and Tanya Solomon. The very week that Eroica Classical Recordings brought out their excellent debut recording, Sketches from the New World: American Viola Duos in the 21st Century, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Slapin and Solomon were both employed within the Louisiana Philharmonic, and the couple immediately found themselves without jobs, managing to escape with little more than their best instruments. Nonetheless, Sketches from the New World: American Viola Duos in the 21st Century is a satisfying program that, taken piece by piece, provides both insight into contemporary American music and a sometimes challenging, but generally pleasurable listening experience, as well. Sketches From the New World: American Viola Duos in the 21st Century is a useful and representative sample of where contemporary music in America is at the end of the twentieth century, picking up with a couple...
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