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Joshua Bell, violin
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Joshua Bell, violin
SAM HAYWOOD, PIANO

Thursday, April 15, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall

Classical Mix Series | Is it possible to characterize the entirety of Joshua Bell in a few words? He’s a video game fanatic and a gadget aficionado. He’s been named one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People. He (or his playing) has been featured in the movies Defiance, Iris, The Red Violin, and Music of the Heart. He’s gone undercover as a street performer. And, oh yes, there’s his music.

He’s an inventive musician, yet he’s entirely unselfconscious. In his view, the classical repertoire has become all too predictable, and the music of Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms during their lives was played with more freedom and a greater openness to new ideas. Bell often likes to bring a smidgen of irreverence to these pieces yet interpret them in a way that reveals exactly what they were meant to be. And despite his many accolades, he affirms that music is not at all—and should never be—about soloists like him merely showing off. He says: “Music should be obvious, it should be like breathing.”

For this concert, he brings his singular vision to Mozart’s Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-flat Major, K. 454; Beethoven’s Sonata No. 7 in C Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 30, No. 2; Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Piano; Méditation from Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher; and Sarasate’s Introduction and Tarentella. (Please note that the concert program changed on April 2.)



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