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Peter Eötvös In Focus at Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series

Mar. 02, 2010

On March 9th, 2010, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group presents a concert focusing on the music of Peter Eötvös, featuring Brandon Ridenour on trumpet, tenor Timur Bekbosunov, and the Calder Quartet. Part of the LA Philharmonic's contemporary music series Green Umbrella, the concert includes performances of Eötvös’ Snatches of a Conversation, and Sonata per Sei, as well as a performance of young UE composer Vykintas Baltakas’ (co)ro(na). Of Snatches of a Conversation, Eötvös writes:

Snatches… is as freely composed as an improvisation. A friendly conversation in a coffeehouse, snatches of clever conversation, full of irony... we trace our way between the tables... The waiter is a double-bell trumpet... The soloists do not improvise in this piece.

This piece features a narrator and, more notably, calls for the soloist to play a double-bell trumpet, allowing rapid-fire timbral changes from different mutes. Sonata per Sei, a reduction for two pianos and three percussion of Eötvös' monumental CAP-KO (concerto for acoustic piano, keyboard and orchestra), compliments this source work's use of non-traditional instruments by the use of a sampler that "creates intervals in parallel with the notes played by the soloist," as Eötvös puts it.

For more information on this concert, and to purchase tickets, visit www.laphil.org.

For more information on Peter Eötvös, visit his profile at www.schott-music.com.

Peter Eötvös
Snatches of a Conversation (2001)
for double-bell trumpet solo and ensemble
flute, clarinet, sax, trombone, vibraphone, marimbaphone, noise-maker, e-piano (sampler), 2 violins, viola, violoncello, double bass
12’

Sonata per Sei (2006)
for two pianos, three percussion and one sampler keyboard
18’

Vykintas Baltakas
(co)ro(na) (2005)
for ensemble
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9’

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