Andrew Grams brings 'dynamite soloist' to ESO's opener

  [Andrew Grams] chose the upbeat Shostakovich "Festive Overture" to open the concert for obvious reasons. "To start off any season you want to have a festive-type piece, and this begins with a nice, big A-major trumpet fanfare," he said. "We've played such dark Shostak...

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Published inDaily herald (Arlington Heights, Ill. : Arlington Heights ed.)
Main Author Gowen, Bill
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Arlington Heights, Ill Daily Herald 16.09.2016
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Brahms, Johannes
Grams, Andrew
Porter, Simone
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
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Summary:  [Andrew Grams] chose the upbeat Shostakovich "Festive Overture" to open the concert for obvious reasons. "To start off any season you want to have a festive-type piece, and this begins with a nice, big A-major trumpet fanfare," he said. "We've played such dark Shostakovich here recently, last year the 11th Symphony and a couple of years before that, the 10th Symphony, so this is a nice change of pace." "When I look at a score that really speaks to me and I think 'That passage is magnificent ... really genius, I want the opportunity to share that with the public,'" Grams said. "You know, 'What makes this piece a masterpiece?' At a regular concert, you can briefly describe certain qualities of a piece, but you don't have time to break down the different elements of the score." On the "Inside the Music" weekends, the regular Saturday and Sunday concerts will be expanded. On Nov. 5-6, Grams will fill out an all-ballet music program with [Tchaikovsky]'s suites from "Sleeping Beauty" and "Swan Lake." On April 1-2, 2017, he will pair the [Johannes Brahms] symphony with [Sergei Rachmaninoff]'s Third Piano Concerto with soloist Natasha Paremski.