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Double Reed Madness

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In an epic concert co-curated by Brad Balliet featuring New York's most extraordinary double reed players, we celebrated double reeds of all kinds, including the shawm and zurna

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EXO partnered with Artistic Advisor Brad Balliett to create a fully immersive celebration of double reeds, with 36 oboes and bassoons (including 3 contrabassoons!) surrounding the audience, commissions and world premieres from Brad Balliett and Viet Cuong, a dance party featuring the Macedonian Zurna, and an exploration of the Medieval Shawm.

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The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration & Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Permission to use this photograph of Julia Perry is granted by Talbott Music Library Special Collections and Westminster Choir College Archives (Julia Perry Collection), Rider University. Digital image, copyright 2021.

Smyth’s haunting music, given here in conductor James Blachly’s new edition, is beautifully constructed and highly evocative (with quotes or allusions to earlier Smyth scores). Her orchestration is limpid and masterly, rendered lovingly here by Blachly with the Experiential Orchestra. The choral contribution is relatively minor, the focus rightly on the two soloists, but again superbly performed… Magnificent sound from Chandos, too. Very strongly recommended.

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