http://auralstates.com/2009/11/live-review-leila-josefowicz-gives-john-adams-violin-concerto-total-depth-2009-10-29.html Baltimore-based music blog focusing on all things music-related in the region. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:17:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://auralstates.com/2009/11/live-review-leila-josefowicz-gives-john-adams-violin-concerto-total-depth-2009-10-29.html/comment-page-1#comment-3952 Ed Mulvaney Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:48:54 +0000 http://auralstates.com/?p=6448#comment-3952 I saw Leila Josefowicz play this on December 6, 2009 with John Adams conducting the L A Philharmonic. I completely agree with what Sam Buker has to say (above). I consider this the most marvelous musical performance I have ever attended. LA Times' reviewer Mark Swed captures it well, too: ". . . played brilliantly, calling up the electric violin's deep cello drones as if in a peyote ceremony rising to heights of rapture." I was struck by the structure of the electric violin and I wonder why I can't find out more about it. By its appearance and the "deep cello drones" I believe this has to have more than four strings — or at least one extra, and that is worth comment. It would need a heavier string to get that cello sound and the visible knobs suggest fine-tuning abilities where the standard violin sound box is. The growl she evoked had a jazz-reference such that John Adams may have had in mind for the jazz violinist who played the premier of this marvelous and now extended performance. I saw Leila Josefowicz play this on December 6, 2009 with John Adams conducting the L A Philharmonic. I completely agree with what Sam Buker has to say (above). I consider this the most marvelous musical performance I have ever attended. LA Times’ reviewer Mark Swed captures it well, too: “. . . played brilliantly, calling up the electric violin’s deep cello drones as if in a peyote ceremony rising to heights of rapture.” I was struck by the structure of the electric violin and I wonder why I can’t find out more about it. By its appearance and the “deep cello drones” I believe this has to have more than four strings — or at least one extra, and that is worth comment. It would need a heavier string to get that cello sound and the visible knobs suggest fine-tuning abilities where the standard violin sound box is. The growl she evoked had a jazz-reference such that John Adams may have had in mind for the jazz violinist who played the premier of this marvelous and now extended performance.

]]> http://auralstates.com/2009/11/live-review-leila-josefowicz-gives-john-adams-violin-concerto-total-depth-2009-10-29.html/comment-page-1#comment-3528 E.K. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:50:04 +0000 http://auralstates.com/?p=6448#comment-3528 John Adams is one composer I can never get into. Not even Shaker Loops that much. John Adams is one composer I can never get into. Not even Shaker Loops that much.

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