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Described by the Boston Globe as "Thrilling" "Brilliant" and "Intrepid", this concert footage comes from Boston's self-conducted chamber orchestra, A FAR CRY's 2009-10 season opener, "The Lunatic" at the inimitable Jordan Hall inside New England Conservatory. The Austrian violin virtuoso, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's (1644-1704) "Battle Music" is a masterpiece depicting scenes of battle drums, drunken soldiers, blasting canons, the wounded and…
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World Premiere of Howie Frazin's Unexpected Encounter. Recorded LIVE by Simon C. Yue for A Far Cry.
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Described by the Boston Globe as "Thrilling" "Brilliant" and "Intrepid", this concert footage comes from Boston's self-conducted chamber orchestra, A FAR CRY's 2009-10 season opener, "The Lunatic" at the inimitable Jordan Hall inside New England Conservatory. From program notes written by the witty & lovely, Kathryn J. Allwine Bacasmot, explaining the reason for Lunacy: "This Lunatic program could be subtitled Haunted by the Ghost of Arcangelo Corelli.…
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From a series of concerts entitled, "The Poet" which was featured during our last concert cycle of the 2009-2010 season. The idea was to concoct a program of music that had been written during, and pieces lamenting the devastating Second World War, with a set of Jazz standards from the period as the center piece & sandwiched with 2 of Paul Sacher commissioned masterpieces of the era: opening with Arthur Honegger's 2nd Symphony for Strings and Trumpet…
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Live from the 2009-10 season during our cycle titled, "The Lover". The footage was recorded by Simon C. Yue on January 29th, 2010 inside Jordan Hall in Boston. Every year the Criers hold a prep competition, and the winners who are High school musicians studying at New England Conservatory's preparatory school, get the opportunity to join us in a concert once a year. Last season's winners, violinists, Gergana Haralampieva & Abe McWilliams, and double…
A Far Cry
Founded in 2007 by 17 young musicians bent on making music according to their own rules, the groundbreaking, self-conducted string orchestra A Far Cry has enjoyed a heady ascent toward the highest ranks of today's new generation of classical ensembles. Hailed by the Boston Globe as "Thrilling", "Intrepid" and "Brilliant," A Far Cry explores the traditional boundaries of classical music, experimenting with the ways it is prepared,
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