{"id":4175,"date":"2019-01-25T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2019-01-25T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:58:51","slug":"kandinsky-trio-paints-a-musical-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4175","title":{"rendered":"Kandinsky Trio Paints a Musical Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The audience waited in silent anticipation as the trio of musicians took their seats on the Olin stage. For a moment, the tableau freezes\u2014hands poised over piano keys, bows hovering inches from strings. Then, music breaks forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In tumbling, complex harmony, the Kandinsky Trio played through Beethoven\u2019s \u201cTrio in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1.\u201d No outside noise interrupted the awed hush between movements, until enthusiastic applause and intermission lights greeted the final flourish of notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Jan. 19, RC welcomed the Kandinsky Trio for a spectacular concert entitled \u201cReflections on Eternity.\u201d The talented threesome, composed of violinist Benedict Goodfriend, cellist Alan Weinstein and pianist Elizabeth Bachelder, took their name from abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky, who believed that color\u2014like music\u2014could be an expression of raw feeling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those who attended Saturday\u2019s concert experienced this artistic phenomenon firsthand. After a captivating opening half, the Kandinsky Trio returned to the Olin stage, accompanied by a clarinetist and an actress, to lead their audience through the multi-faceted musical landscape of Messiaen\u2019s \u201cQuartet for the End of Time,\u201d which he wrote from a German prisoner of war camp in 1941. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Narration and onscreen visuals further enhanced the spine-chilling, otherworldly nature of Messiaen\u2019s masterpiece, delivered with breathtaking skill by the musicians. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI loved them both,\u201d says RC President Michael Maxey, recalling the concert\u2019s two parts. \u201cThe second piece was powerful and overwhelming\u2026and just gripping\u2026They are incredible artists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Charissa Roberson The audience waited in silent anticipation as the trio of musicians took their seats on the Olin stage. For a moment, the tableau freezes\u2014hands poised over piano keys, bows hovering inches from strings. Then, music breaks forth. In tumbling, complex harmony, the Kandinsky Trio played through Beethoven\u2019s \u201cTrio in E-flat Major, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":4170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kandinsky.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}