Summer 2021 – a gallery
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David YangAfter marinating indoors for the better part of a year and a half, we’ve all been desperate for live music. Et voilà – this summer, every concert sold out.
Sébastien van Kuijk
A Conversation with David Yang,Artistic Director NCMF
(July 2020)
NICOLAS BACRI (b.1961)
Folia for cello and chamber orchestra
THOMAS VALVERDE & SEB KUIJK
Ambassade
The following pieces were referred to in this interview:
OLIVIER MESSIAEN (1908 – 1992)
Quatuor pour Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
V. "Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus" for cello and piano
OLIVIER MESSIAEN (1908 – 1992)
Quatuor pour Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
VIII. "Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus" for violin and piano
IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882 – 1971)
The Rite of Spring
ADRIANO CELENTANO (b. 1938)
Prisencolinensinainciusol
(sounds like it is in English but it is not)
ELLA FITZGERALD (1917 – 1996)
Air Mail Special
(virtuoso American scat singing – precursor of rap)
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KAHN (1948 – 1997)
Allah Hoo Allah Hoo
(Qawwali: Sufi mystical Islamic devotional singing,
starts to move around 7:20)
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David YangAfter marinating indoors for the better part of a year and a half, we’ve all been desperate for live music. Et voilà – this summer, every concert sold out.
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David YangWhen I was a teenager, I got a job one summer working as a bike messenger in New York.
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David YangThis summer we’ll be performing Shostakovich’s String Quartet in Eb Major, No. 9. Following are my notes from the program.
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