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Elizabeth Chang Earlier this month, UMass professor of violin Elizabeth Chang released her new CD, “ Transformations ,” on Albany Records. The release features works by Leon Kirchner; Roger Sessions; and Arnold Schoenberg; and is rooted in the cross-generational connections between Chang and these composers. The CD was produced, engineered and mastered by Adam Abeshouse, a past GRAMMY-winner of Classical Producer of the Year, with David Schneider, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music at Amherst College, providing the liner notes. While at Harvard, Chang studied under Kirchner, who in turn studied with both Sessions and Schoenberg, two of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. According to Chang, “Both Sessions and Schoenberg were pioneers in seeking a new compositional language in the post-tonal world while being deeply rooted in the Germanic tradition.” She describes Kirchner as having had a “profound artist ....
By Adam Feibel Brad Mehldau’s latest album is called Variations on a Melancholy Theme and features the pianist and composer performing with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Combining classical form and jazz harmonization, the album comprises a theme and 11 variations, followed by a cadenza, a postlude and an encore. “I imagine it as if Brahms woke up one day and had the blues,” Mehldau says. “The theme itself has a wistful character, perhaps a feeling of resignation. There is some sense of finality and ending to it when heard for the first time already. So as I composed, a narrative challenge emerged namely, how to embark on a story that begins with a conclusion. While the theme evokes melancholy, I let it be used as a springboard for other happy, wild, violent, and reckless emotions as the variations progress.” ....
Orpheus Chamber Singers offering excellent recorded program online, for free Led by founding director Donald Krehbiel, the choir performed a mix of motets from the 16th and 20th centuries. Artistic director Donald Krehbiel and the Orpheus Chamber Singers lead the audience in a carol at Custer Road United Methodist Church in Plano on Dec. 14, 2017.(Anja Schlein / Special Contributor) COVID-19 restrictions have kept the Orpheus Chamber Singers, an acclaimed professional chamber choir in Dallas, from giving a live concert in over a year. But the ensemble has reached its devoted following by offering video recordings on its website. The latest performance, “Lamentations and Meditations,” was sung by 12 masked and socially-distanced voices in St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. Led by founding director Donald Krehbiel, who’ll step down from his position in December, the 40-minute program mixed together 16th- and 20th-century motets for the Christian season of Lent ....