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My 2010- January with Dvorak and Dragons

2010 January January 23rd was always destined to be the most important date of the first month of 2010. It was to be the day that I once and for all liberated myself from my fear of the Dvorak Cello Concerto. As a young cellist, the Dvorak had been my favorite piece...

Program note archive: Bartok Viola Concerto

Béla Bartók- Concerto for Viola (1945) completed by Tibor Serly William Primrose, maybe the most important violist of modern times, asked the then-ailing Bartók to write a concerto for his use in 1945. Since emigrating from Hungary to the US in 1940, Bartók had...