Dayton Philharmonic - Michael Gandolfi and His Garden of Sound
GALILEO/RESPIGHI Gagliarda from Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1 GANDOLFI Music from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation: Discussion and Demonstration GANDOLFI Music from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
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Dayton Philharmonic - Michael Gandolfi and His Garden of Sound
GALILEO/RESPIGHI Gagliarda from Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1
GANDOLFI Music from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation: Discussion and Demonstration
GANDOLFI Music from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Casual Q&A after the concert
DPO Artistic Director and Conductor Neal Gittleman explains great compositions in the unique Connections format of first-half description and demonstration followed by second-half performance.
Ottorino Respighi was not only a composer but also a musicologist, and he knew his sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century Italian music extremely well. He published music written by the likes of Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. He even concerned himself with music written by Galileo’s father. That’s right—lute player, composer, and music theorist Vincenzo Galilei had sired the “father of modern physics,” Galileo Galilei, transforming the family’s claim to fame from music to science.
Self-taught guitarist Michael James Gandolfi transformed himself from a potential garage-band rock star to an American composer of contemporary classical music. Leaning on rock and jazz influences, Gandolfi likes to write about scientific subjects (sounds as if he might be a relative of the Galileis). His work titledThe Garden of Cosmic Speculation concerns itself with a multi-acre sculpture garden in southwest Scotland. When you listen to the piece, close your eyes, and try to imagine a garden where nature and man-made artifacts coexist in—what else?—harmony.
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