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Reviewed by Marcia Gronewold Sly
Special to The Ellsworth American
ORONO To presented last Friday’s Masterworks IV concert, “Mozart & Schubert,” Bangor Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Conductor Lucas Richman made the most of a reduced orchestra and fit together three works that share similar instrumentation. The online concert also included the little-known composer, Marianna Martines’s Sinfonia in C Major. In his pre-concert talk, Maestro Richman expressed his delight at discovering the piece. Featuring Martines, he noted, advances the symphony’s goal of programming works by composers, including women, who are under-represented in Western classical music. Scored for strings, flute, oboes, French horns, and harpsichord, the Austrian composer’s Sinfonia is a charming piece in three movements.
BSO launches listeners into spring
By Marcia Gronewold Sly
Special to The Ellsworth American
BANGOR The Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s second Masterworks concert of the 2021 season began Friday evening with Arvo Pärt’s “Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten,” performed by a small string orchestra and one percussionist under the baton of Music Director and Conductor Lucas Richman. The piece began with three beats of silence, interrupted by the tolling of a bell on a single note. Then the violins began at the top of their register, playing a descending minor scale. One by one, the orchestra’s other sections joined the downward spiral, creating layers of sound. The bell sounded intermittently throughout the eight-minute piece, which ended as it began, in silence.