Wednesday, October 16, 2024 7 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
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Sphinx Virtuosi by Scott Jackson
The Sphinx Organization's “flagship performing entity” presents a varied and vibrant program of string music in this acclaimed annual event. It includes a riveting movement by 19th-century pianist, composer, singer, and conductor Teresa Carreño, a larger-than-life New Yorker from Venezuela who, by age 10, had performed for Abraham Lincoln at the White House during her first year of touring the US. Additional concepts of American music are explored in Derrick Skye's multifaceted and optimistic American Mirror, Part One; works (including a world premiere) by renowned violinist-composer Curtis Stewart, who “translates stories of American self-determination to the concert stage”; the Overture from Treemonisha, written by foundational ragtime composer Scott Joplin and newly arranged by Jannina Norpoth; and an imaginative nod to Joplin by celebrated film composer and advocate Levi Taylor.
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Tickets $29 ($25 + $4 fee)
Performers
Sphinx VirtuosiNjioma Chinyere Grevious, ViolinTai Murray, ViolinJosh Jones, Percussion
Program
JOPLIN Overture from Treemonisha (arr. Jannina Norpoth; NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
CARREÑO Tempo di Marcia from Serenade for Strings
DERRICK SKYE American Mirror, Part One (arr. for string orchestra; NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
CURTIS STEWART Double Down, Invention No. 1 for Two Violins (World Premiere)
CURTIS STEWART Drill (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
LEVI TAYLOR Daydreaming (A Fantasy on Scott Joplin) (NY Premiere)
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