paul taylor orCHestra präsentiert Grenzen auslotende, innovative Programme und schlägt Brücken zwischen Kulturen und Musiksparten.
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Rhythm & Romance mit Thomas Grossenbacher, Solocellist des Tonhalle Orchesters

Im Zentrum des Programms Rhythm & Romance ist die kürzlich neu verlegte romantische Suite «Seven Pieces for Cello and String Orchestra» des berühmten amerikanischen Operettenkomponisten Victor Herbert. Rhythmisch spannend ist das grossartige Werk «Shaker Loops von John Adams und strotzend vor Energie die Komposition «Ritus» des heute in New York lebenden Zürcher Komponisten Daniel Schnyder, die urbanen Jazz mit klassischen Formen verbindet. Als musikstilistische Fortsetzung der vorangegangenen Programme des paul taylor orCHestras knüpft «Rhythm & Romance» einerseits direkt an die klassische spätromantische Musik im Programm «Die Liebenden» an und andererseits an die im «Alphorn & Nordic Winds» thematisierten modernen Rhythmen und Tonalitätserweiterungen in Bezug auf Tradition und musikalische Wurzeln.

Rhythm and Romance combines the passion and energies of our first program «The Lovers» 2007/2008, and «Alphorn & Nordic Winds» 2012/2013. While in the earlier program influencial late romantic music by Sibelius and Schoenberg was played alongside a work of John Adams with their respective literary references in recitation; in «Alphorn and Nordic Winds» the debt of all music to folk-roots and the natural scale is shown  through the prism of classically arranged folk, pop, or jazz style works.

Three outstanding American composer‘s works are featured in this program: Victor Herbert‘s rarely heard romantic «Seven Pieces» for cello and piano, stand in the center of this program. They are enhanced by the new orchestrations by S. Dennison, and H Kunstovny for solo cello and string orchestra. Victor Herbert (1859-1924), an Irish born cellist was schooled in Stuttgart and Vienna where he played under Johann Strauss before he emigrated to New York and the Metropolitan Opera at age 26. Herbert became the most celebrated American operetta composer and conductor of the early 20th Century.

A new orCHestra presentation of John Adams‘ «Shaker Loops», a modern string showpiece, shows Adams's earlier experimenting in bowing techniques and minimal melodic forms. «Shaker Loops» a  musical kaleidoscope of implacable rhythmic drive, evolved into a pivotal work for Adam‘s international reputation as composer. orCHestra will open the concert with Daniel Schnyder‘s «Ritus» 2001, premiered in African Symphony with Abdullah Ibraham. The Zurich/ New York saxophonist and composer, writes urban Jazz with lyrical energy for classical string orchestra.

Thomas Grossenbacher, our soloist in this program, is Principal Cellist of the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zürich. His numerous recordings, including „Don Quixote“ by Richard Strauss with the Tonhalle Orchestra under David Zinman (Arte Nova), have garnered international praise. As soloist and chamber musician Thomas Grossenbacher is in demand throughout Europe in the USA and in Japan.