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I'm Seth Boustead welcoming you to the
return of the NY phil biennial three
weeks packed full of premieres staged
operas chamber and orchestral concerts
after parties and more all celebrating
the vibrancy of the global contemporary
classical music scene the biennial
features several exciting concerts at
national sawdust in Brooklyn the first
of these concerts shared madness is the
culmination of an exciting project that
began with an act of kindness was made
possible through friendship when new
music advocates Elizabeth and Justice
schlichting helped violinist Jennifer Co
purchase a major new instrument and
agreed to accept newly commissioned
music in return it was a selfless act
that has created a ripple effect of
generosity more than 30 renowned
composers from around the world agreed
to donate their time and talents and
compose short new show pieces for solo
violin the idea is to showcase
virtuosity in the 21st century and
explore the shared creative space
between composer and performer the
reason I came up with the title shared
madness is because it's about the shared
creative space the shared experience and
essentially this shared community that
we live in and where we actually support
each other that's kind of been an
amazing thing on a musical level to just
see how these composers are approaching
this concept of virtuosity in the 21st
century and there's such a plethora and
multiplicity to those responses which
are really interesting especially when
they're paired next to each other one of
the things i find and jenny is a perfect
example of this when I write for very
fine players which I've been really
fortunate you know to be able to have
done quite a bit is you know really fine
players are fearless so if you write
something that that is somehow you know
that they could actually be smoother or
better some other way you know they
won't tell you they'll just try to make
it work as it is because they they they
can do anything thanks to the generosity
of the schlick teens and the composers
shared madness has created a new body of
solo violin master works on May
twenty-fourth and 31st Jennifer will
play these pieces for the first time on
a new violin which they were written
with the herd of composers more than
half of them American who
enthusiastically jumped on board for
this project of camaraderie and artistry
shared madness is something of a Mike
the NY phil biennial itself I'm Seth
Boustead and this has been your biennial
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