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2010-2011 SEASON
September 5, 2010
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Wesley Baldwin will perform with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra on November 16.
Composers don’t write in a vacuum; just like the rest of us, they’re influenced by their times and culture — and that’s as true for Beethoven at the turn of the 19th century as it is for JacobTV (aka Jacob Ter Veldhuis) today.
Works by each will be performed at the next performance of the Bryan Symphony Orchestra at Tennessee Tech University beginning at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 16, in Wattenbarger Auditorium. The BSO will be performing Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony, Eroica, and the U.S. premiere of JacobTV’s Rainbow Concerto. “People think of Beethoven as old-fashioned because the Eroica dates back to 1804,” said BSO Music Director Dan Allcott. “But in reality he was bold and new at the time, and he knew it. I think JacobTV is bold and new, but I don’t think he sees himself as revolutionary — and Beethoven did.” JacobTV, whose work is well known in Europe but has yet to gain a large audience in the U.S., made a name for himself in the 1980s with “melodious compositions” written “straight from the heart.” “I work intuitively and only write music I like to listen to myself,” he said. “I often have to wrestle with the concept of melody: is it possible to create one that does not yet exist? I compose rather like a sleepwalker — very romantically, really.” While the Dutch composer began his musical career as a rock musician, he studied composition and electronic music at the Groningen Conservatory, where he was awarded the Dutch Composition Prize in 1980. He has said that he is “preoccupied with American media and world events and draws raw materials from those sources.” “The Rainbow Concerto is beautiful music; it’s not what many people think of when they think of new music, and they’ll be surprised by its beauty,” said Allcott. “JacobTV understands our culture really well and he’s totally into new media; he gets it, and that’s infused in his music. As a result, a lot of it has tape samples and ‘speech melody,’ and so on, but it’s the same thing composers have always done: they synthesize what’s current in our culture with this high art form. “I believe JacobTV is even more relevant to our time than Beethoven was to his,” said Allcott. “Beethoven was blazing a trail, while JacobTV is making melodies that are closer to what we’re accustomed to hearing in the modern world.” Helping interpret those melodies is guest cellist Wesley Baldwin, a member of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville faculty and winner of the Ulrich, Fischoff, and Prix Mercure awards for excellence in cello performance. A recording artist for the Naxos and Zyode labels, Baldwin has also worked with Centaur Records, which released his solo recording of Belgian cello music in 2004 and his recording of duos with violist Sheila Browne in the summer of 2006. This fall he has recorded contemporary chamber music with the Society for New Music for the Innova label. Audience members can meet Baldwin at several concert-week events, including the grand opening of the BSOA’s new office in the West Side arts district on Friday, Nov. 14, and at the post-concert reception on Sunday, Nov. 16, in the lobby of the Bryan Fine Arts Building. Here’s the complete line-up:
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