The Alabama Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of Paul Lansky’s With the Grain, a guitar concerto, on November 6 at the Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Music Director Justin Brown will conduct and guitarist David Starobin will serve as soloist in the four-movement work, which was commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University. Lansky, a professor of music at Princeton University, is the orchestra’s composer-in-residence for the 2009-10 season; the concerto is the first of three new pieces by Lansky to be premiered during the season. In the past decade Lansky has written several works for Starobin, including Semi-Suite, a work for solo guitar. Starobin last performed with the ASO during the 2007-08 season, when he joined the orchestra for Manuel Ponce’s Concierto del Sur and the U.S. premiere of Poul Ruders’s Paganini Variations.
Posted July 28, 2009
Photo of Paul Lansky courtesy of the composer
