Nadja Plays Piazzolla:
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Clarice Assad: Impressions, Suite for Chamber Orchestra |
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- Thursday, Sept. 11 at 8pm, First Congregational Church, Berkeley
- Saturday, Sept. 13 at 8pm, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
- Sunday, Sept. 14 at 5pm, Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael
- Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 8pm, First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg’s inaugural set of concerts as NCCO Music Director will include a selection of Brazilian and Argentine music, featuring herself as soloist on Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires and Ginastera’s Glosses on Themes by Pablo Casals. The program opens with the world premiere of an NCCO commission, Clarice Assad’s new Impressions, Suite for Chamber Orchestra. The Villa-Lobos work, perhaps his best-known, was originally written for soprano and eight cellos, and will be presented in a new arrangement by Clarice Assad.
Reviews of the NCCO's 9/11/08 performance in Berkeley:
"The quality of performance is so high, the audience so engaged, the program so engaging within its class, and the charisma so omnipresent that now the only remaining barriers to national celebrity lie in the marketing arena." - San Francisco Classical Voice
"This fine string orchestra continues to play with a degree of zest and unanimity that most ensembles can only envy." - San Francisco Chronicle
"The orchestra was being drawn, visibly, into Salerno-Sonnenberg's special world of performance, which matches hot-bloodedness with machine-shop precision." - San Jose Mercury News