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SUMMARY:Pro Arte presents Dancing Through the Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Dancing through the Centuries\nSunday\, May 21\, 2023 3pm\nEarl Lee\, conductor \nPro Arte and Earl Lee\, Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra\, have crafted a fascinating program based on music and movement stretching back six hundred years. Béla Bartók wrote that he would raise the folk music in and around his native Hungary “to the level of art song.” His popular Romanian Folk Dances are evocative arrangements of traditional Transylvanian fiddle tunes. The soulful songs of Southern chain gangs inspired Kenji Bunch’s powerful Supermaximum. Battalia\, by Baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber\, is a bracing depiction of a battle that requires unconventional techniques from its string players. As the first Black woman to be widely recognized as a symphonic composer\, Florence Price was a pioneer in American music. Her Andante moderato is a luminous arrangement of the slow movement from one of her string quartets. In music\, La Follia—Italian for “folly”—refers to a frenzied peasant dance from fifteenth-century Portugal. The dance’s catchy chord progression later spread throughout Europe\, forming the basis for countless compositions\, including a set of variations for solo violin by Arcangelo Corelli\, which was later arranged by his pupil Francesco Geminiani for string orchestra. In her La Follia Variations\, contemporary composer Michi Wiancko takes this a step further\, reflecting Geminiani’s Baroque concerto grosso in a dreamy twenty-first-century mirror. \nPROGRAM\nBéla Bartók Romanian Dances\nKenji Bunch Supermaximum\nHeinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Battalia\nFlorence Price Andante moderato\nArcangelo Corelli/Francesco Geminiani\, Arr. Michi Wiankco La Follia Variations
URL:https://newtonculture.org/event/pro-arte-presents-dancing-through-the-centuries/
LOCATION:Second Church in Newton\, 60 Highland St.\, West Newton\, MA\, 02465\, United States
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