CO NC E R T S SATURDAY, July 18 4:00 p.m. PST, worldwide any time after iPalpiti Orchestra / Eduard Schmieder, conductor Festival opens with a short musical greeting: each musician of 2020 performing from their own home! Enjoy a minute and a half of a happy start, “wave” to familiar faces, note the names and countries where musicians are playing from. The video will continue with the same Perpetuum Mobile in a LIVE performance from Disney Hall when it was played as an encore after the grand-finale of the 17th annual festival in 2014, so you get to see the orchestra and maestro on our “home” stage in LA. Searching through iPalpiti archival videos, we found the program from 2004, with Dmitri Shostakovich music, which was always against injustice and aggression. Watch Theodore Bikel introducing iPalpiti. Listen to Maestro Schmieder historical excurse in time of the composing Prelude and Scherzo. The importance of this concert is also that it was the inaugural concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. After the years of iPalpiti concerts on local best stages of the Ford Theater, Zipper Hall at Colburn and other locations, when Disney Hall opened, iPalpiti was the FIRST ensemble performing on the new stage on August 1, 2014, before LA Philharmonic season began. The concert was dedicated to the memory of a great friend and supporter of the arts Lloyd E. Rigler, as iPalpiti continues to benefit from annual grants of the Rigler-Deutsch Foundation to this day. The selected participating musicians of that season became illustrious alumni: Karina Canellakis (sitting next to concertmaster Peter Rainer) is now a Chief Conductor, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor, London Philharmonic; Maria Machowska is a concertmaster of National Warsaw Orchestra; Daniel Austrich is a violinist in a famed Michelangelo Quartet; bassist Roman Patkoló is professor at University of Basel and recording with Anne-Sophie Muter; Miguel Juan Hernandez, violist in the Fine Arts Quartet and prof. at the Royal Academy in London; Isabelle Lambelet is a violinist in the Tonnhalle Orchestra of Zurich; cellist Eldar Saparaev leads a solo career and Klassik Konstanz; Catharina Chen is a first concertmaster and soloist of the National Opera of Norway, and the list goes on…. “Young Artists’ Concert is a stunner…it was both moving and heartening to hear young musicians of such caliber and passion. Each hurled themselves into their music with such fervor you could not help but gladly caught up with it and carried along. The audience was responding with cheers, standing ovations and cries “Bravo, bravo!” And justifiably so. As long as the world has more fine musicians like these, the future of classical music performance is in good hands.” –The Taos News (this was the season that iPalpiti also was touring New Mexico).
Carl Böhm
Perpetuum Mobile iPalpiti 2020 ZOOM & iPalpiti 2014 archival LIVE
Dmitri Shostakovich
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Prelude and Scherzo, Op.11 YouTube Premiere: ARCHIVAL 2004, inaugural Disney Hall opening concert. “National treasure” Theodore Bikel introduction. Maestro Schmieder foreword about music & times
