American composer Jennifer Higdon's breakthrough came in 2002 with her Concerto for Orchestra, a work that attracted the widespread admiration of working symphonic musicians and led to mushrooming performances of her music both within and beyond the U.S. It's no wonder: Higdon's handling of orchestral instruments is flattering indeed to musicians who adequately execute them. Here the composer takes on an especially tricky challenge: The Singing Rooms is a work for violin, chorus, and orchestra, with the violin generally not ...
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American composer Jennifer Higdon's breakthrough came in 2002 with her Concerto for Orchestra, a work that attracted the widespread admiration of working symphonic musicians and led to mushrooming performances of her music both within and beyond the U.S. It's no wonder: Higdon's handling of orchestral instruments is flattering indeed to musicians who adequately execute them. Here the composer takes on an especially tricky challenge: The Singing Rooms is a work for violin, chorus, and orchestra, with the violin generally not in a soloistic role, but first among a group of instruments featured in what the 18th century would have called concertante roles. The work sets an unrelated group of poems by Jeanne Minahan, not entirely convincingly joined together under the "singing rooms" rubric. "This is a house where the violin sings, the choir sings, and the orchestra sings. Every room is its own sound world. Not an ordinary house, this is the house that we all inhabit: that of life," Higdon enigmatically...
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