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Lara Downes
Lara Downes: Duke Ellington New World A-Comin'
Brevard Music Center
349 Andante Ln
Brevard, NC 28712
Jul 5, 2024
7:30 PM EDT
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BMC's Principal Guest Conductor JoAnn Falletta returns for the first of two concerts this season in a program featuring colorful folk tunes, lyrical melodies, vividly expressive spirit, and the soul of Harlem. Falletta and the orchestra shimmer in works by Enescu and Dvořák, while pianist Lara Downes brings to life Ellington's lush and improvisatory single movement homage to vibrancy, variety, and soulful melancholy.
Brevard Sinfonia
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Lara Downes, piano
GEORGE ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
EDWARD K. "DUKE" ELLINGTON New World A-Comin'
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 6
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Davis
November 13th 2023
Lara, the Richmond Symphony, the conductors and the choral group orchestrated an incredibly memorable evening - never to be forgotten. Lara and her talent always exceed what are always very high expectations.
Richmond, VA@Dominion Energy Center
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The Brevard Music Center is a community of student and professional musicians who aspire to ever-higher levels of artistry. The Summer Institute enrolls 500 students in o...
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Lara Downes Biography
Honored as 2022 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today, American pianist Lara Downes has been called “a musical ray of hope” by NBC News and “an explorer whose imagination is fired by bringing notice to the underrepresented and forgotten” (The Log Journal). An iconoclast and trailblazer, her dynamic work as a sought-after soloist, a Billboard Chart-topping recording artist, a producer, curator, arts activist and advocate positions her as a cultural visionary on the national arts scene. Ms. Downes’ musical roadmap seeks inspiration from the legacies of history, family, and collective memory, excavating the broad landscape of American music to create a series of acclaimed performance and recording projects that serve as gathering spaces for her listeners to find common ground and shared experience.
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