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Azrieli Music Prizes Volume II: Jewish Music from Canada

Azrieli Music Prizes Volume II: Jewish Music from Canada

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So you read “New Jewish Music” and you think, well, Israel.  At least I did at first.  But the richness of the Canadian musical landscape embraces a wide range of excellent music both pop and classical and this disc (I haven’t heard volume I) serves to illustrate my point. These three works, two for instrumental soloist and orchestra and one for soprano and orchestra are indeed…

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Fabian Ziegler, Raphael Christen — Lucerne, 2019-12-01 | Music Blog

Marimba recital: Fabian Ziegler, Raphael Christen @ Maihof, Lucerne, 2019-12-01 — A. Dorman; A. Viñao; Steve Reich (Piano Phase); E. Séjourné

Concert review, ★★★★, Fabian Ziegler, Raphael Christen @ Der Maihof, Lucerne, 2019-12-01 — Avner Dorman (*1975): Udacrep Akubrad; Alejandro Viñao (*1951): Dance Groove Drifting; Steve Reich (*1936): Piano Phase; Emmanuel Séjourné (*1961): Departures

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Acrobacias y congelación clásica. Crítica de Música .

Mi crítica del primer concierto del 8º programa de abono de la ROSS ayer en el Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla.

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Friday Afternoon Desktop Concert - Avner Dorman's Concerto in A

Concerto in A - 1st Movement from Metropolis Ensemble on Vimeo.

American premiere of Avner Dorman's Concerto in A for Solo Piano and String Orchestra (1995), performed on October 11, 2007 at the Angel Orensanz Center in New York City. Featuring Eliran Avni (piano) and the Metropolis Ensemble led by conductor Andrew Cyr. Video by Timothy Bakland; sound by Nils van Otterloo.

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Kansas City Star: A cheerful tribute to nature and creation

John Heuertz of the Kansas City Star reviews the Kansas City Symphony's premiere of Metropolis composer Avner Dorman's Frozen in Time on April 30, 2011 with percussion soloist Martin Grubinger.

"Creation stories formed the backdrop of the Kansas City Symphony’s inventive concert Friday at the Lyric Theatre... Dorman, a rising young Israeli composer, scored this three-movement work for full orchestra and 23 different percussion instruments, principally marimba and vibraphone. All 23 of which Grubinger played with breathtaking mastery... The audience got so wound up it applauded after every movement, and kept doing it in the second half."

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KCMetropolis: Interview with Avner Dorman

David Peironnet of KCMetropolis interviewed Metropolis composer Avner Dorman ahead of his premiere of Frozen in Time on April 30, 2011 with the Kansas City Symphony.

DP: Frozen in Time is music composed for percussion. That’s always interesting. How do you, as a composer, develop a musical idea when you are essentially limited to banging on things? AD: Well, listeners will notice that I use both unpitched and pitched percussion instruments. The pitched percussion instruments (marimba, vibraphone, crotales, glockenspiel, etc..) are as melodic as, say, a piano (the piano simply has hammers "banging on things.") As far as non pitched instruments, I feel those allow for more primal music, music from before the age of tones, scales, chords etc. I also love the fact that in a percussion concerto the percussion soloist is upfront, turning our focus to it.

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Kansas City Star: Symphony to depict Earth’s creative forces

Patrick Neas of the Kansas City Star previews Kansas City Symphony's premiere of Avner Dorman's Frozen in Time on April 30, 2011.

The Symphony also will perform the U.S. premiere of Avner Dorman’s percussion concerto Frozen in Time. According to Dorman, the work was inspired by Earth’s geology. "It’s divided into three movements: Indoafrica, Eurasia, and The Americas," he said. "The percussionist Martin Grubinger asked me to write a concerto for him. He knew my music well and felt that my style was very global, and he thought that reflected our generation’s view of the world. So he asked me to write a truly global concerto." Indeed, Dorman’s work encompasses the entire planet and its very beginnings.

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New York Times: A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up

Allan Kozinn profiled Metropolis composer Avner Dorman for the New York Times, after the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed the U.S. premiere of his Azerbaijani Dance at Carnegie Hall on February 22, 2011.

"Avner Dorman's music works its magic by melding far-flung influences and making them sound natural together. Depending on the score, an inviting neo-Romantic fabric may bear touches of modernist acerbity; vigorous, complex rhythms; themes built on Middle Eastern and Indian modes; Baroque figuration; or the accents of pop and jazz. Extramusical notions often animate the music as well. Mirage, a string quartet, evokes both the desolation and the power of the Israeli desert; Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!, a kaleidoscopic percussion concerto, builds on the mingled allure and peril of the substances in its title. ...That process helped him transform the mandolinist Avi Avital’s request for a work for mandolin and harpsichord ("That sounded too plucky to me," Mr. Dorman said) into a high-energy Mandolin Concerto that was nominated for a Grammy Award this year. And it led to Niggunim, Hebrew plural for a particularly soulful type of melody, which will have its premiere in a recital by the violinist Gil Shaham and his sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, on Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y."

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