Violist and Composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama
has a website at www.ngwenyama.com
and is featured at AfriClassical.com
(Photo Darla Furlani)
Springfield, Ohio
Brett Turner
Wednesday January 4, 2017
The Springfield Symphony Orchestra welcomes backs one of its most
embraced genres for its first 2017 concert with music from some of the
leading German, English and French composers of the era.
“Going
for Baroque,” featuring guest soloist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, will be 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Clark State Performing Arts Center.
This is the Symphony’s second MasterWorks concert of the season.
“There
is something intrinsically compelling about baroque music,” said
Springfield Symphony Orchestra conductor Maestro Peter Stafford Wilson.
“It’s driving rhythmic pulse and clean, articulate melodic lines make it
extremely listenable and entertaining. We enjoy popular support from
the public for these Baroque concerts.”
The program will include:
Bach’s “Brandenberg Concerto No. 3,” Jean Baptiste Lully’s “Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme Suite,” and Handel’s “Viola Concerto,” on which Ngwenyama
will play, and “Water Music.”
Stafford Wilson said Lully’s setting
of “The Would-be Gentleman” was created for a ballet, and has a very
lighthearted, jocular feel and he enjoyed a special flair for melody.
“The
Bach and Handel works are mainstays in the repertoire, although the
‘Water Music suite’ that we are performing is some of the lesser known
music from this piece,” he said. “The Handel concerto is attributed to
Handel, but we are more and more convinced that it is by a fellow named
Henri Cassadesus, who was an early music specialist living in Paris
around the turn of the century.
“It is a wonderful piece, very
much in the style of Handel and we are excited to present Thula
(Nokuthula) in this piece,” Stafford Wilson said.
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