Yale Cellos Gallery
View photographs of two sold-out concerts by the Yale Cellos with director and founder Aldo Parisot. The concerts, which took place at Yale and in Carnegie Hall, honored Aldo Parisot’s 50th year on the Yale School of Music faculty.
All photos by Vincent Oneppo.
Aldo Parisot and the Grammy-nominated Yale Cellos perform music for cello ensemble
The Yale School of music celebrates Professor Aldo Parisot’s fifty years on the faculty with a concert featuring the Yale Cellos on Monday, April 20 at 8:00 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St, New Haven). In his astonishing career, Aldo Parisot has been a star soloist, renowned chamber player, and perhaps the most beloved cello teacher of his time. The concert will showcase the famed Yale Cellos, founded by Parisot in 1983, whose 20 or so members belong to the select group of international young artists invited to study with him at Yale. Joining the ensemble are pianist Elizabeth Parisot and soprano Hyunah Yu. (more…)
“Senior” by Timo Andres ‘09MM premieres at Carnegie Hall
Composer Timothy (Timo) Andres enjoyed a successful premiere of his orchestral work “Senior” in Carnegie Hall on Sunday, March 22.Written for string quartet and orchestra, the piece is written to evoke the state of mind of a senior in college. The New York Youth Symphony commissioned the 12-minute work, performing it with the ACME String Quartet and conductor Ryan McAdams.
According to Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times, “This pensive and restless music does seem to touch on the conflicting emotions that Mr. Andres identifies with senior slump: expectancy and finality, bewilderment and boredom. But the piece was fascinating on musical terms alone… The acuteness of Mr. Andres’s ear lends intricacy to the layered lines and pungency to the piercing harmonies.” (more…)
Turangalîla Symphony
at Carnegie Hall garners rave reviews
The Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale performed Olivier Messiaen’s epic Turangalîla Symphonie at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, December 14, under the baton of guest conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and with Wei-Yi Yang at the piano and Geneviève Grenier at the ondes Martenot to close the Messiaen Centenary Celebration. The critical reception to the performance was overwhelmingly positive:
Allan Kozinn at the New York Times had this to say in his review “A Monumental Messiaen Speaks Many Languages“:
The performance was sensational: well prepared, solidly and precisely executed, and rippling with high-energy percussion and brass playing and a fluid interplay of polished strings as well as winds. If you were looking for a demonstration of how completely a conductor can convey an unusual work’s ideas in all their complexity and beauty, and inspire his musicians to play the piece as if it is the most vivid, original music ever written, you could hardly have done better than this.
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But in a way the work’s inspiration, musical sources and relationship with Messiaen’s other music need not matter. Taken entirely on its own, this is a masterpiece of color, texture and peculiarly alluring turns of phrase. Mr. de Leeuw made every moment of it taut and exciting, and Wei-Yi Yang, playing the sparkling piano line, contributed significantly and virtuosically, as did Geneviève Grenier, who produced the score’s otherworldly electronic lines on the ondes martenot.
Other positive reviews include:
- Robert Levine, ClassicsToday.com: “Yale Philharmonia in Messiaen’s Ecstatic Turangalîla“
- Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News: “Classical Music Review: Turangalîla Symphony“
- Heidi Macdonald, The Beat, Publishers Weekly: “Turanga Leela“
- James Marcus, House of Mirth: “Turangalîla or bust“
