Academy Artists Present: A Special Concert Featuring World-Renowned Violist PAUL COLETTI April 14, 2010

Bach, From Manuscript to Music: On the Trail of a Lost Viola Concerto.

Join us on April 14th for a very exciting event at Interlake Performing Arts Center in Bellevue, WA!

World-renown violist and music educator Paul Coletti will be premiering the reconstruction of what he believes is Bach’s lost viola concerto with students from the Academy of Music Northwest and Interlake High School in Bellevue.

Nineteen-year-old Justin Almazan, an alumnus of both Academy of Music Northwest and the Interlake High School Orchestra will join him in the Telemann Concerto for Two Violas.

Another notable composition on the program is the Bloch Suite for Viola and piano. Bloch's own imagination saw the 1st movement as the creation of life in the primitive world, the 2nd as the Simian stage of life of
primates and apes, the 3rd as a Miasmic nocturne with noxious swamps
and disease, and the last movement depicting the worlds first great
human civilization of China. Despite all of these amazingly descriptive titles Bloch himself said "one may perceive a certain Jewish inspiration. " "  In truth most of
Ernest Bloch's music contains Jewish themes and biblical stories from
the Old Testament; " the complex, glowing, agitated soul that I feel
vibrating through the Bible...... All this is in me and it is the
better part of me.''

Bellevue's Award-Winning Interlake High School Orchestra will open the program with Grieg's Holberg Suite and Mendelssohn Sinfonia IX, under the direction of Dr. Shira Katsman.

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