For his Double Violin Concerto (1997) Mark O'Connor temporarily set aside his popular "Appalachian" mode (adequately represented in the last three pieces here), and turned his attention to the blues and jazz -- or at least the aspects of these genres he had absorbed and accepted as fair game for "classicizing." Considering the Texas swing and ...
The very early history of the folk music revival in America is peopled to some extent by classical musicians such as Ruth Crawford Seeger (Pete's stepmom) and Suzanne Bloch who acted as midwives, expert collectors of past folk material, sources of repertoire, and even as performers when there was no folk movement as such. Once the folk revival got ...
Chamber music meets the glamorous life in the image of the Eroica Trio, shown here lounging among pillows with their instruments, clad in designer jeans and sleeveless white tops. Although violinist Susie Park is Australian, all three members of the trio came from the ranks of Juilliard School alumni. Their music is more conventional than their ...
Nashville-based fiddler Mark O'Connor first gained an international reputation in the classical sphere partly because of the sheer audacity of his country-classical fusions: they worked simply because getting the fiddle and the symphony orchestra in the same room, with something to say to each other, was an accomplishment in itself. O'Connor built ...
As a violinist and fiddler, Mark O'Connor has worked in a wide variety of styles and idioms, and his own compositions reflect the same eclecticism, which encompasses folk, rock, country, bluegrass, contemporary classical, and jazz. The bulk of his work has been instrumental, but here he turns his attention to choral music, and this disc includes ...
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