In Thursday’s (5/30) Daily Gazette (Schenectady, New York; subscription required), Geraldine Freedman writes, “The Albany Symphony Orchestra’s three-day American Music Festival, which starts today, is a cornucopia of delights for anyone who loves new music, for the composers whose works will be performed—many for the first time—and for the musicians, who love the challenge of playing something different. The man behind all this creativity is the orchestra’s music director, David Alan Miller. ‘He has his ear to the ground,’ said composer Ted Hearne, whose new work will be premiered Saturday. … [Thursday was] the Festival Reading Session at which the ASO [performed] new works from three composers chosen through the Composer-to-Center Stage competition. Friday, the 18-member Dogs of Desire, which includes sopranos Alex Sweeton and Martha Cluever, will give three world premieres. … Saturday night is the regular subscription concert, with the orchestra featuring pianist Orion Weiss, filling in for Emanuel Ax. The program will be Michael Torke’s ‘Ecstatic Orange’ (1985), Kamran Ince’s ‘Domes’ (1993), Hearne’s ‘Resourcery Vol. 1’ and Weiss in [Christopher] Rouse’s ‘Seeing,’ a concerto for piano and orchestra.”
Posted May 31, 2013
