Thursday, January 21, 2010

Interviews with Gil Shaham and Sasha Cooke


Barber’s violin concerto is definitely in the lyrical, romantic mold. Shaham calls it “the great American violin concerto. I first performed it 20 years ago with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by my good friend Michael Stern,” he said. “Every page is gold. It sounds so American. You can almost see the skyscrapers being constructed.”

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