The next time I get an attack of the “contemporary music blues,” I need only think of this amazing concert. Left to right: Zhou Tian, Adolphus Hailstork, David Hayes, and Jennifer Higdon. So wonderful to finally meet Adolphus Hailstork, whose music I have admired since the 1980s, to reconnect with Jennifer Higdon, who is one of the nicest people (and who used to live two blocks from me in Philadelphia), and to catch up with Zhou Tian, a former radio guest and now something of a friendly acquaintance. David Hayes I remember from when he was still a student at Curtis, the kid who went on to conduct the Philadelphia Singers. Of course his career has only continued to blossom. A truly memorable evening, and a concert chock-full of good and even great things!
Tag: Zhou Tian
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Allentown Symphony Weekend Lehigh Valley Music
This weekend: @[100057996013792:2048:Mimi Stillman] plays music by @[100056202085826:2048:Zhou Tian, composer] with the @[100063545561737:2048:Allentown Symphony Orchestra]! Also on the program: William Grant Still’s “Ennanga” for harp and strings and Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony. Show them some love, Lehigh Valley!
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Lunar New Year Year of the Rabbit Classical Music
新年快乐 / 新年快樂
Happy Lunar New Year! And what’s up, doc? It’s the Year of the Rabbit!
Celebrate with another colorful and substantial work by Zhou Tian. “Gift” was commission by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and given its premiere there in September 2019. It was first performed in the U.S. by the New York Philharmonic in January 2020.
Then enjoy a festive playlist at the links below.
Li Huanzhi, “Spring Festival Overture,” with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Sun Yi Qian, “Spring Dance,” with Lang Lang
Ma Sicong (Philly exile during the Cultural Revolution), “Spring Dance”
Chen Yi, “Spring Rain” (text: Du Fu, “Happy Rain on a Spring Night”)
Masked medley
Happy New Year from the TENG Ensemble
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Mimi Stillman Premieres Zhou Tian Flute Concerto
Wow! Here’s Mimi Stillman with “The President’s Own” United States Marine Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere of a new flute concerto by Zhou Tian, composer. I’ve had the privilege to interview and record with Mimi a number of times over the years, and I know Zhou from having interviewed him for the Trenton Times and on the air during my days at WPRB. Both such personable and talented people! Definitely also do check out Zhou’s Grammy-nominated Concerto for Orchestra, recorded by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. It’s a knockout! Mimi has many other wonderful videos posted on her page. Follow her! And congratulations to both.
World premiere of Zhou’s Flute Concerto
Live performance of his Concerto for Orchestra, with the Basque National Orchestra
PHOTO: Zhou, Mimi, and the U.S. Marine Band’s Col. Jason K. Fettig
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Classical Commute Tag Team Blowout Thursday
Carl Hemmingsen and I have been training hard in order to form a successful tag team for your afternoon commute.
Carl will hold you as if in a half nelson of continuous musical pleasure until 5 p.m. Then I’ll be over the ropes to execute a classical camel clutch, in celebration of the birthdays today of conductor Rudolf Kempe, composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and tenor John McCormack.
In the 6:00 hour, watch out for a slingshot suplex in the form of the “Yellow River Concerto,” an artifact of China’s Cultural Revolution – this to mark the birthday of pianist Lang Lang. We’ll break the birthday lock with “Broken Ink,” a colorfully orchestrated work that strives for almost cinematic grandeur, by Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian.
I hope you’ll join Carl and me for a tag team championship smackdown, this Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org
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