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Myths and Legends: the Video
Jared Starr recently sent me the video recording of his performance. Check it out below:
In other news, I’ve just started in on a new string quartet. Details forthcoming . . .
Returning to the Violin
So I’ve recently started work on a violin concerto for my friend Jared Starr. I grew up playing violin, and though I never progressed passed an intermediate level, writing a concerto for the instrument feels like a kind of homecoming to me. Here’s a video of David Oistrakh playing Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, my favorite as a teenager. (For the record, other favorites of mine include those by Barber, Berg, Bolcom, Korngold, Ligeti, Mendelssohn, Rosza, and Williams.)
