(piano music) (footsteps thumping) (audience clapping) - Good evening.

Thank you for coming tonight.

I'd like to talk a little bit about this program and this is a bit different program than we typically present with the symphony orchestra.

First of all, as we've been doing for this entire year, it's only strings on the program for certain obvious spacing reasons that you can probably figure out by the number of chairs on the stage.

The two pieces that we're performing.

The first one will be by the FGCU Chamber Strings.

Those would be nine of us on stage.

The piece by neuro based composer Richard Einhorn, was written in December 1994 and premiered in 1995.

And actually exists no commercial recording of this piece.

And it was, it was interesting to get a hold of the piece and actually see the music firsthand.

Richard wrote this-- this was his last major work before he wrote Voices of Light.

The oratorial that was used with The Passion of Joan of Arc Salem award-winning film from the mid '90s.

But he wrote this piece and you can hear in this piece you would be familiar with The Passion of Joan of Arc sport, that there are harmonies and rhythms that are post-minimalist, and more inspired by rock drumming than any other genre.

The piece is quite difficult to put together and we're graced by my colleague, Dr. Timothy Yontz to come out and to keep us together from the conductor's stand.

So while the piece is not necessarily intended to be performed that way, it facilitates the performance significantly.

The second piece on the concert, is recomposed by Max Richter, the Vivaldi Four Seasons.

Many of you might be familiar with the Four Seasons already Vivaldi piece.

You pick what is to elevators around the country.

The music...

The doors private phone catalog has a number of pieces that are classical favorites.

That are well-known by classical audiences, are remixed and recomposed.

The project began with remixing pieces by electronic artists.

And Max Richter and several others came along and decided they wanted to recompose rather than remix the pieces.

And the Four Seasons was the first of these actually recomposed pieces.

Now Max Richter, he's a film composer and a concert hall composer, but he is...

The piece that he was best known for prior to doing this was infro valet based on the seven, seven London bombings.

And then he came out and did this piece and it employs a lot of the same post-minimalist strategies looped and spun material over the duration of a piece, employing textural changes instead of developmental procedures to cover time.

The piece though uses Vivaldi's Four Seasons, it's the source material.

And it's very interesting in this piece that you hear the combination of Vivaldi style dominating it at times and Max Richter style dominating at times.

So the piece of floats back and forth between the spirit of Vivaldi and the actual material of Vivaldi.

It's structured similarly to the original Four Seasons.

It has four, three movement sections.

Each season is represented.

We hope you enjoyed the program tonight.

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