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June 28, 2009

In Performance: NOI and the New; Welsh National Opera

 Web-only reviews: NOI Students Explore the New by Joe Banno The advance publicity for Thursday's "New Lights" Concert - a performance by the University of Maryland's National Orchestral Institute (NOI) at the Clarice Smith Center - outlined an evening of cheekily inventive programming by the Institute's nationally chosen, college-age musicians. But a couple of their more tantalizing ideas never made it to the concert. We were denied hearing '70s pop songs between movements of Elliott Carter's slyly experimental Eight Etudes and a Fantasy for Woodwind Quartet (though the players nailed Carter's mix of intellectual rigor and whimsy). And while the entire second half of the concert was scheduled to be a musical happening in the lobby, only Christopher Rouse's brief but punchy percussion piece, "Ogoun Badageris," actually happened, as promised, outside the auditorium. Plenty of imaginative touches remained, though. Video clips of '30s cartoons lent a giggly vibe to John

Originally from The Classical Beat – Classical Music Forum – washingtonpost.com, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jun 28, 2009 at 01:59 AM

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