As part of the Echo Chamber Music Series, pianist Natalie Zhu ably assists in West Coast premiere by Kenji Bunch
of “Uptown Funk” employs percussive effects on the cello body and glissandos simulating Bruno Mars’ cat calls.
The concert opened with Barber’s 1932 Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Minor, Op. 6. Composed while Barber was still a student at Curtis, it doesn’t quite have the hallmarks of his mature style. Yet its hyper-Romantic gestures and some nontraditional harmonic progressions hint at things to come. Bunch, an American violist, is a successful composer of unabashedly tonal works. His “Broken Voice” for cello and piano was premiered by Newman in 2003. Bunch lives in Portland, Ore., yet somehowYou’d think that more contemporary tonal composers would be able to write a good tune as Bunch can, but only a few of his peers possess that skill. Bunch’s compositions get the job done, but they are prone to long stretches of static harmony.
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