James Buswell, violin with the University Symphony Orchestra
Performs in the Meng Concert Hall
James Buswell
WHO:
Department of Music at Cal State Fullerton
WHAT:
James Buswell, violin with the University Symphony Orchestra
WHEN:
4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19
WHERE:
Meng Concert Hall, California State University, Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton
PROGRAM:
“War of the Romantics”
- Die Meistersinger Overture
- Wagner
- Violin Concerto No. 1in G Minor
- Bruch
- Symphony No. 3
- Brahms
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
- Liszt
- Hungarian Dance No. 5
- Brahms
BACKGROUND:
Violinist James Buswell has performed as a soloist with virtually all of the major orchestras in North America and throughout Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. In addition, he has performed over one hundred solo works for violin and orchestra. His regular professional activities include solo and chamber recitals, conducting, teaching, lecturing and writing. In recital, he is noted for “adventuresome programming, regularly combining standard masterpieces with works off the beaten path.”
Early in his career he was an artist-member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Buswell has recorded award-winning CDs of the Samuel Barber concerto and the concerti of Walter Piston. His world premiere performances include works by Charles Wuorinen, Donald Erb, Ned Rorem, Leon Kirchner, John Harbison and Yehudi Wyner. Recently, Buswell has performed in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Buswell’s began his early training at the Julliard School, where he was a pupil of Ivan Falamian, and continued his studies at Harvard University, where he majored in Renaissance art. Buswell is professor of violin at New England Conservatory and artist-in-residence at Gordon College, where he also is director of orchestral studies.
In this performance, Buswell will perform Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor. Composed in 1866, the three-movement concerto is scored for solo violin and a standard classical orchestra, consisting of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.
The first movement, Vorspiel, serves as a prelude to the second movement. It opens with a smooth army march that features the flutes, followed by a short cadenza during which the solo violin becomes audible.
This introductory section is followed by a much slower second theme. This movement ends the same way it began, with two short cadenzas more virtuosic than before and the tutti orchestra flowing directly into the second movement, connected only by a single low note from the bassoon.
The second movement, Adagio, is knows for its powerful melody and is generally considered to be the heart of the concerto. The third movement, Finale, opens with an intense, yet quiet orchestral introduction that yields to the soloist’s statement of the theme in double stops. This dance movement is taken at a fast and energetic tempo. The piece ends with a huge accelerando section that ascends as it gets faster and louder, eventually concluding with two short, yet grand chords.
ADMISSION:
Advance sales $20 ($15 with advance Titan discount)
At the door all tickets $20
BOX OFFICE:
Tickets available at the Performing Arts Center box office 657-278-3371 between the hours of 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and one hour prior to performance. Tickets also may be purchased at www.tickets.com.
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