BUY NOW . She’ll be here with the Cypress Quartet when they play her “Impressions” on January 23rd for Market Square Concerts. It is time to introduce Jennifer Higdon to the Secrets readership. 262Traditional & Folk … Peachtree Street. CD Crotchet AmazonUK SACD Crotchet AmazonUK AmazonUS: Jennifer HIGDON (b. With the Telarc CD City Scape, Higdon has another rare honor to add to her cap -- a … Because I was born on New Year's Eve, it makes it hard to calculate. It's not. Some may read the dates of composition and bypass this CD, expecting difficult music. No, 42. 7 in F Major, Op. Buy Jennifer Higdon: City Scape; Concerto for Orchestra by Jennifer Higdon, Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra from Amazon's Classical Music Store. close overlay Buy Featured Music Song Cityscape -- Peachtree Street Album Jennifer Higdon: City Scape; Concerto for Orchestra Artist Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Jennifer Higdon: Right. Symphony Hall, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 12, 14 Sept 2003. 1962) Concerto for Orchestra (2002) City Scape (2002) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Robert Spano Telarc CD-80620 66:17. Below is an edited transcript of my extended conversation with Higdon, conducted in March 2005.----Jason Victor Serinus: You are 41 now? It was performed by soloist Roberto Díaz with the Nashville Symphony and conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. Jennifer Higdon is a forty-something composer who teaches at Curtis and has garnered a lot of attention and interest where it counts -- commissions from major performers and orchestras, Guggenheim fellowships, residencies with major ensembles and festivals, and acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Jennifer Higdon (b. Glazunov, Symphony No. Two orchestral works by Jennifer Higdon evoke a modern urban landscape: Concerto for Orchestra; Cityscape (a musical portrait of Atlanta): 1. Her style is tonal and relatively harmonically conservative, but sounds contemporary nonetheless and quite strikingly American. Augustin Hadelich performs Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the Harrisburg Symphony this weekend - Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm at the Forum - on a program called Winterscapes which includes Jennifer Higdon's SkyLine (the exciting opening of CityScape, composed in 2002) and Sergei Rachmaninoff's valedictory Symphonic Dances, a nostalgic look at the dances of Imperial Russia … 77, "Pastorale" (1903): “a pastoral” symphony for city dwellers Skyline; 2. Jennifer Higdon has relatively quickly become one of the leading contemporary American composers. Everyday low … Jennifer Higdon’s music is back on mid-state programs for at least two performances, both in January 2010. I have so many problems with my age. 261)Jennifer Higdon, interview by author, tape recording, Atlanta, Ga., 19 September 2006. Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Telarc 80620. The piece was co-commissioned by the Library of Congress and the Curtis Institute of Music. River Sings a Song to Trees; 3. BGSU alumna Jennifer Higdon won the Best Contemporary Classical Composition Grammy Award for a second time, for "Viola Concerto." 261Nick Jones, jacket notes, Jennifer Higdon, City Scape Concerto for Orchestra, Cond. These cityscape pieces present another side of the modern city: the city as a symbol of free market capitalism. 1962) Concerto for Orchestra (2002) [34.58] Cityscape (2002) [30.51] Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Robert Spano Rec.