Live From Lincoln Center
Wednesday, August 12, at 8 p.m.
on WKAR-HD and WKAR-23
Joshua Bell Performs at "Mostly Mozart"
Celebrated violinist Joshua Bell joins Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, live from Avery Fisher Hall, in this Live From Lincoln Center telecast. Alan Alda hosts.
Throughout the day, Wednesday, August 12, 90.5 Classical will also feature selections performed by Bell.
The concert, led by Mostly Mozart Festival Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée, will feature Haydn’s beloved “London” Symphony, as well as Mozart’s Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E major and Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C major, and Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides” Overture and Violin Concerto in E minor.
Bell, best known for performing the Oscar-winning soundtrack of John Corigliano’s The Red Violin, and whose latest Sony/BMG Classics CD release of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart, was last featured on Live From Lincoln Center on New Year’s Eve 2008 with the New York Philharmonic and in January 2004 for a special evening of violin favorites from the Kaplan Penthouse.
A little known fact is that one of Bell's earliest (if not first) televised concert was recorded and broadcast by WKAR in the station's Studio A in the 1980s.
For more than two decades, Bell has enchanted audiences worldwide with his breathtaking playing and tone of rare opulence. Today, he is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra leader. His restless curiosity and multifaceted musical interests have taken him in exciting new directions and have earned him the rare title of “classical music superstar.”
He was recently featured on the soundtrack of the Paramount Vantage film Defiance, directed by Edward Zwick and starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. Bell has made acclaimed Sony Classical recordings of the concertos of Beethoven and Mendelssohn (both featuring his own cadenzas), Sibelius and Goldmark, and the Grammy Award-winning Nicholas Maw concerto. The success of his Grammy-nominated Gershwin Fantasy — which premiered a new work for violin and orchestra, based on themes from Porgy and Bess — led to a Grammy-nominated all-Bernstein recording that included the composer’s Serenade and the premiere of West Side Story Suite. He currently serves on the artist committee of the Kennedy Center Honors and plays the 1713 Gibson ex Huberman Stradivarius.
published: August 12, 2009
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