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Nashville Starts the Season with Tchaikovsky, Barber, and Hailstork
On Friday, September 13, the Nashville Symphony opened their 2019-2020 season spectacularly with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, Samuel Barber’s piano concerto with guest soloist Garrick Ohlsson, and Adolphus Hailstork’s An American Port of Call, all conducted by Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero. While these pieces appear to be musically unrelated, their composers are tied together through their issues with cultural identity. Both Adolphus Hailstork and Samuel Barber focus heavily on “the singing line” in their compositions, with Barber borrowing heavily from the Russian piano style to do so. Barber’s involvement in both the singing line and Russian piano tradition provided an excellent segue toRead More
