“Two nights before playing the Schoenberg Violin Concerto with the Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja will perform Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal song cycle ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ … at the nearby SKY SLC nightclub with five Utah Symphony musicians and music director Thierry Fischer,” writes Catherine Reese Newton in Sunday’s (10/15) Salt Lake Tribune. “ ‘I played [“Pierrot”] several times as a violinist and always longed to do it as a vocalist,’ Kopatchinskaja said…. She’s getting her chance in Salt Lake City [in] the MOTUS After Dark series of late-night club gigs featuring Utah Symphony musicians. Series organizer David Porter, a violinist in the orchestra, [said], ‘It will be a full club effect…. And there will be lasers. So many lasers.’ … The program will end with Kopatchinskaja playing Ravel’s ‘Tzigane’ on violin, then [trumpeter] Gabe Slesinger … will play an hourlong set of techno music…. It might surprise Utah Symphony fans to learn that Fischer, too, has some experience performing in clubs—he sang chansons in cabarets to help pay his tuition. ‘It was like 30 years ago, 35,’ he said. ‘So, not recently, but I am very familiar with all the cabarets in Switzerland.’ ”
Posted October 19, 2017
Pictured: Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who is performing this week with the Utah Symphony
