by Robert Rollin
On Saturday evening, April 9, the Youngstown Symphony presented Hebraic Rhapsody, the last of its three Powers Auditorium classical concerts of the season, conducted by music director Randall Craig Fleischer. The highlights were two works the Orchestra performed with Israeli cellist Inbal Segev: Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo and Leonard Bernstein’s “Three Meditations” from Mass. [Read more…]
by Mike Telin
“What captivates me about Avner Dorman’s cello concerto is that it is so different than anything I have done before,” cellist Inbal Segev enthusiastically remarks over the telephone. “It is definitely on steroids. The first movement really hits you. The last time I played it, people jumped because they were not expecting a classical piece to sound like that. But it does grip you right away.”
On Saturday, September 21 at 8 PM in Youngstown’s DeYor Performing Arts Center, Inbal Segev will give the Ohio premier of Avner Dorman’s Cello Concerto with the Youngstown Symphony under the direction of Randall Craig Fleischer. The concert also includes Glinka’s Overture to Russian and Ludmilla and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.
Composer Avner Dorman is quickly establishing a presence in Northeast Ohio, having recently been named Music Director of CityMusic Cleveland. He describes his piece as “a concerto for a cello that forgot it was a cello,” and Segev quickly agrees that it is unlike anything that she has done before, adding that “Avner is a great guy and of course his music is great too!”
The story of how the concerto came to be is a real case of like minds being in the same place at the same time. [Read more…]