Joshua Bell: “Every Note Means Something…” by Karen Herlitz
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
behind tNhe o te s rockport music newsletter : SPRING 2017 Joshua Bell: “Every Note Means Something…” By karen herlitz experience with Mr. Gingold. He was also a teacher and mentor Opening this year’s Rockport Chamber Music to several regular Rockport Chamber Music Festival artists Festival is world-renowned violinist Joshua Bell. including Andrés Cárdenes and Jaime Laredo (of Kalichstein- Since arriving on the world stage in the early 90’s, Laredo-Robinson Trio), as well as providing an early chamber music festival experience to our own Executive Director Tony Bell has turned into one of the most acclaimed Beadle. Andrés Cárdenes shares: and high-profile classical artists in the world. Mr. Gingold was, for all his students, not simply a famous, Never one to limit his music to a particular genre world-renowned teacher—he was our role model in every or medium, Bell has shaped an impressive career way. Etiquette, professionalism, integrity, humanity and the by balancing musical integrity and virtuosity with highest standards of violin playing. His devotion to the art, discipline and craft of violin playing was infectious and has a willingness to explore opportunities. been a source of daily inspiration to me. By many accounts of those who knew him, Josef Gingold was not He has performed in the Oscar-winning original soundtrack only an extraordinary violinist and teacher, but also a remarkable The Red Violin and the blockbuster Angels and Demons , as well person with a great sense of humor. Among the many violinists as a wide range of crossover recordings with artists from Béla of today influenced by Mr. Gingold, one of the most prominent Fleck to Chris Botti. In addition to his appointment as music is Joshua Bell, who has shared on multiple occasions the director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, his significance Mr. Gingold has had on his life. In Joshua Bell’s participation in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post story words (from an interview with The Strad ): about busking (incognito) in the DC Metro brought him even For me the most direct influence and by far the greatest more international attention and recognition. Bell obviously hero was my teacher Josef Gingold. He was one of the likes to stay busy. When asked how he manages his hectic most sincere and beautiful music makers that I’ve ever schedule, he told the Washington Post “I just say yes to Violinist Joshua Bell continues on pg . 07 everything…that way, there’s no fear of missing out.’” For Opening Night, Bell will perform works of Beethoven, Brahms, Grieg, and Sarasate. Joshua Bell’s story is known by many. His musical passion began early—as a 4-year-old he placed rubber bands between his dresser knobs, playing the dresser like an instrument. Wishing to foster this interest, his parents started him with violin lessons. Joshua’s father was on faculty at Indiana University , which was also where world-renowned violinist and teacher Josef Gingold taught within the prestigious school of music. At 12 years old, Josef Gingold became Joshua Bell’s teacher and would become a major influence. Gingold had a deep impact on a multitude of world-renowned violinists today—Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman are just two of the many who had their first chamber music Joshua Bell performing with great skill and emotion in an orchestral concert. rockport music 37 MAIN STREET, ROCKPORT, MA 01966 T 978.546.7391 W rockportmusic.org 01 FROM OUR CHAIR A Commitment to Cultural Excellence By susanne guyer celebratory events, non-profit events, Rockport Music is committed to the cultural excellence and business meetings. The beautiful of our community. Throughout Rockport Music’s history , Shalin Liu Performance Center was we have been a part of the rich cultural fabric of Cape also the site of a Northshore magazine Ann. With the opening of the Shalin Liu Performance fashion photo shoot, an ESPN documentary, as well as artist video profiles of Colin Center, our ability to be a community resource has Hay and the Harlem Quartet. grown exponentially with year-round concert offerings As part of Rockport Music’s commitment including free concerts, free educational programs to the community, we provide free use susanne guyer, chair for students and adults, and much more. of our concert hall to the Rockport Schools for student performances Our commitment to the community was recently featured in a approximately eight times per year. The hall is also made available Northshore magazine article entitled “KIDS ROCK —Experience at no charge for Northshore 104.9’s Holiday Toy Drive, the Town Music to Your Ears at the Shalin Liu Performance Center.“ The of Rockport’s New Year’s Eve concerts, the Holiday Sing-Along, article highlights the many Rockport Music educational programs and activities during Motif No. 1 Day and the Harvest Festival. that serve over 5,000 students in area schools through in-school The mission of Rockport Music is to enrich lives through programs, workshops, and exceptional musical performances and learning opportunities the Rockport Jazz Camp. that deepen a love of music. Within our core values is a Did you see? We also provide adults commitment to our communit y—to Rockport, Cape Ann, with enrichment activities rockport music in and the greater North Shore region. We are proud of this through community commitment. Northshore magazine concerts , lectures, classes This summer you have the opportunity to enrich your life with such as the popular opera the many concert offerings in the Rockport Chamber Music series , and workshops like Festival, the Rockport Jazz Festival, and Summer at Rockport. a recent one on bow-making . It is a season packed with exciting performances by artists new Beyond these man y to our stage and favorites who continue to awe our audiences. educational programs, the Shalin Liu Performance Center is often utilized for This is David Deveau’s final Rockport Chamber Music Festival check out Northshore purposes other than to hea r magazine's april issue for a as artistic director, so please plan to join me to celebrate the feature story on rockport a concert. Our wonderful artistic leadership and musicianship that David has brought music’s extensive education concert hall and reception to Rockport Music over the past 22 years. It is sure to be a and outreach programs! room have been the site tremendous Festival! of weddings and other Board of trustees mary malone Janice cane andrew calkins olivia parker susanne guyer, Chair frank e. previte susan gray robert cassady, m.d. pat petrou stephen m. Bell, ruth shane mimi harper stephanie connaughton leeanne powers Vice Chair naomi stonberg william hausman michael costello melvin rosenblatt garth greimann, david sweet Joseph mueller deborah epstein richard safier Vice Chair william e. taylor frank fritsch david scudder allan h. cohen, richard tennant rockport music sherwin greenblatt mary ann sherry council Treasurer susan wagner Judith hood hinda simon dianne anderson Jeannie mcintyre, peter wernau gillian kellogg kathleen skrabut Secretary James Bacon margaret ziering susan king helen soussou frank g. Berson patricia Bertero lew leathersich Barbara sparks david deveau philip cutter william Bonaccorso trustees emeriti edward lowenstein, m.d. Bruce d. sunstein Artistic Director nina d. fieldsteel gregory r. Bover James Barker everett morss paul sylva tony Beadle Jerry a. hausman thomas Burger John Brennan deborah nelson Executive Director steve lindo mollie Byrnes lois Brynes anne pardee spring 2017 NEWSLETTER 02 World Premieres Inspired by Cape Ann By karen herlitz In David Deveau’s final Rockport Chamber Music Festival, he Since its inception, the Rockport Chamber Music brings together the past, present, and future with a concert and Festival has been honored to present many world premiere by David Alpher, one of the Festival’s founding directors. premieres, from Scott Wheeler to Elena Ruehr. This He then performs the world premiere of his MIT colleague year, David Deveau is bringing two world premieres Charles Shadle’s work. Looking ahead, he performs his final to the Festival, and the two share an intriguing local Festival concert as artistic director alongside longtime connection. Charles Shadle’s Dogtown Common and collaborators Andrés Cárdenes and Anne Martindale Williams with incoming artistic director Barry Shiffman. From David David Alpher’s Between Twilights are both inspired Deveau about this year’s Festival: by and celebrate the natural landscape of Cape Ann. “As I contemplated what might make this year’s Festival— Charles Shadle describes his my last as Artistic Director — inspiration for Dogtown Common special, it seemed appropriate as “the long-abandoned community to focus on time and space. bordering the old inland road Past, present and future are from Rockport to Gloucester. The represented in both my landscape is rugged…often in a programming and musician tangle of vegetation. Today it is choices . And Cape Ann is conservation land, valued for its celebrated in both commissioned beauty, as a place to walk and to new works; it is especially breathe the air that pushes in gratifying to see this region, one from the sea.” we love so deeply, represented in beautiful musical terms . David Alpher’s Between Twilights: Musicians both new and very Seven Songs on Poems of Marsden familiar to Festival audiences Hartley sets the poetry of celebrated will perform works ranging New England painter/poet Marsden marsden hartley used the new england coast, including cape ann, as inspiration for many of his renowned paintings. the aBoVe is from the medieval (Boston Hartley (whose work is exhibited at MOUNT KATAHDIN GMAINEH, AUTUMN #2. across the top (left to right): THE Camerata) to works composed the Cape Ann Museum as well as LIGHTHOUSE (1940); DOGTOWN (1934); EVENING STORM, SCHOODIC, MAINE NO.