PLAYERS of Royal Northern Sinfonia treated a virtual audience to a selection of their personal favourites, showcasing their individual talents and collective strength, at the latest concert live streamed from Sage Gateshead. With the year marking the centenary of tango master Astor Piazzola, what better work to form the core of the specially-curated programme than his Four Season of Buenos Aires. Four violinists stepped from the ranks to lead the different seasons, each bringing their own distinctive flair. Spring was fronted by Marie Schreer who attacked the rhythms with gutsy bowing, while her rhapsodic lines had a sensuous flow. The foot-stamping Summer was propelled forward with vigour by Gaëlle-Anne Michel, who took relish in the tremolos and glissandi, ending with a flourish, to strains of Vivaldi’s Winter.
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Royal Northern Sinfonia, Sage Gateshead online review – a grab bag of players’ favourites
Piazzolla the centrepiece of an imaginative and varied programme
by Bernard HughesSaturday, 15 May 2021
The Royal Northern Sinfonia play Haydn s Sinfonia Concertante
The Royal Northern Sinfonia handed its players artistic control of the programme for this livestream from the Sage, Gateshead and if the result lacked coherence it certainly had the variety and diversity missing from the Wigmore Hall Nash Ensemble recital I reviewed last month.
Among the art fun happening on Sunday will be sessions on: • mini tea-stain drawing with Positively Petite artist Jo-Ann Sheen (using shapes of tea or coffee stains on printmaking paper); • mini pop-art drawing (with pencil crayons or markers on card stock); • mini holiday wreath making (using natural materials); • and lantern making, with faculty member Catherine Dumaine. “The council is looking to engage youth in the arts and get people interested in the facility so that they are more likely to come back,” Zhang told
The Tri-City News on Monday. Teen Day at PdA! builds on the council’s programs from last year all of which had multicultural components, he said. As well, the council plans to host a new children’s Christmas function next month and, sometime in the new year, another Art After Dark for teens.
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