In concerts last week, carefully chosen contemporary works complemented her two programs
On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach. Interleaved into these masterly performances were solo violin works by Thierry Escaich, Annie Gosfield, Jessie Montgomery, and John Zorn.
John Zorn has emerged as the Grand Old Man of what used to be called Downtown music. Not beholden to theories, with omnivorous musical tastes, equally at home in concert music and improvisation, Zorn is one of the key American composers of his generation, yet his concert music has not really found its way into programming — at least here in San Diego.is based on the B-A-C-H motif.
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