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Image Caption: From left to right: Yoko Nakatani, Brittney Benton, Adam Gallant.<\/em><\/p>\n
Both Benton and Nakatani are very active composers who were commissioned by the Lowell Chamber Orchestra back in 2020 – at the height of the pandemic – to write works for \u201cLowell Threads,\u201d an initiative by the Lowell Chamber Orchestra to enlist composer into writing works around a particular genre. In this case, Nakatani, Benton, and two other composers, were asked to write works in response to the eccentric chamber symphonies of Darius Milhaud. The results was the album \u201cMiniature Symphonies.\u201d On Saturday, the Lowell Chamber Orchestra will perform in public these two pieces since the recording\u2019s release in 2021.<\/p>\n
The concert begins with Nakatani\u2019s one-movement \u201cLa Gicl\u00e9e\u201d takes its inspiration from the joy of children as they splash through water, and produced a homage to George Gershwin in a short work that requires an unusual seating arrangement. Benton\u2019s \u201cThe Sentinel\u201d is the musical telling of a fantastic tale in which a stone golem guards the entrance to a town, and the different movements as the creature slumbers, awakens. The evening will end with Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s Chamber Symphony No. 1, the work that started a trend in which composers had to learn to use much smaller forces than usual because of World War I.<\/p>\n
The concert will also feature Adam Gallant, principal trumpet of the Lowell Chamber Orchestra, as a soloist in Persichetti\u2019s \u201cThe Hollow Men.\u201d This piece, while not technically a symphony, encompasses the profoundly deep meaning of the T. S. Eliot poem that inspired it.<\/p>\n
As always, the Lowell Chamber Orchestra is presenting this concert for free, but donations are most necessary in order to keep its mission of providing the best of classical music without a socio-economic boundary to the Lowell population.<\/p>\n
For more information, please visit https:\/\/lowellchamberorchestra.org\/events\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n