Oboists rarely strike out on their own. James Austin Smith’s recent program at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust—pieces culled entirely from the vaults of the German Democratic Republic—was a true solo mission, Alex Ross writes.
The forty-year-old American oboist James Austin Smith, who recently presented “Hearing Memory,” an adventurous program of East German music, at National Sawdust, in Brooklyn, has made his path all the more challenging by choosing to work outside the orchestral cocoon.
” Smith’s “Hearing Memory” concert, presented in collaboration with the pianist Cory Smythe and the violinist and violist Yura Lee, focussed on three leading composers of the later East German period: Friedrich Goldmann , who specialized in potent deconstructions of traditional forms; Georg Katzer , an Eisler student who delved into electronic music; and Christfried Schmidt, who remains active past the age of ninety and has been able to see the belated premières of long-unperformed works,...
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