October 19, 2009

World Premiere Performances of Meira Warshauer Music

World Premiere Performances of Meira Warshauer’s Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra in Wilmington and Brevard, NC, and Columbia, SC

Tekeeyah (a call) - Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra, will be given its World Premiere performances with shofar/trombone virtuoso Haim Avitsur on the following dates.

http://www.wilmingtonsymphony.org/.

http://www.boamusic.org/bp.htm.

http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/orchestra/index.html.

Tekeeyah (a call) is the first concerto ever written for shofar/trombone soloist and orchestra and was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras that also includes the Western Piedmont Symphony (Hickory, NC), John Gordon Ross, Music Director and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, Music Director.

Tekeeyah (a call) during a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Spring of 2008, has written this about the piece, "I believe our time calls for an awakening to our true essence as human beings. The shofar (ram’s horn), with its natural power and centuries of service in calling Jews to awaken, can be an important instrument in this collective renewal of purpose. The trombone's breadth of range and dynamics complements and extends the expressive capacity of the shofar.”

http://www.readthebeatmagazine.com/Oct09-Warshauer-Classical.htm.

Like Streams in the Desert video is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18OqrQV8z1U&feature=related. The piece is featured on her critically acclaimed Albany Records Streams in the Desert disk of Torah-based choral/orchestral works.

http://www.meirawarshauer.com.

Posted by jmwc at October 19, 2009 10:22 PM