I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat…
Anna Clyne’s “The Seamstress,” a work for violin and orchestra after a poem of William Butler Yeats, will open this Sunday’s concert of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Jennifer Koh will be the soloist. Also on the program, music director Rossen Milanov will conduct Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. The concert will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium Sunday afternoon at 4. Milanov will deliver a pre-concert talk at 3.
A PSO “Behind the Music” event will take place tomorrow afternoon at 3, at The Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center. Insights into Clyne’s music will be offered, with Koh discussing her collaborative relationship with the composer, and Milanov his method of preparing her scores for live performance. The event is free and open to the public, with advanced reservations available through the PSO, at princetonsymphony.org or 609-497-0020.
Clyne and Koh talk to me about “The Seamstress” in today’s Trenton Times.
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/09/classical_music_pso_opening_se.html
Of perhaps related interest, Milanov and the PSO can be heard, along with guest soloists soprano Michelle Johnson, mezzo-soprano Margaret Lattimore, tenor Zach Borichevsky, and baritone Hugh Russell, and the Princeton High School Choir, in a broadcast concert of last season’s PSO finale, “Viva Verdi,” tonight at 8 ET, on WWFM – The Classical Network, at 89.1 FM or online at wwfm.org.
PHOTOS: Anna Clyne (left) with Jennifer Koh and Rossen Milanov