Gregory Sullivan Isaac's new work for the Violins of Hope to be premièred

Musik Fabrik is proud to announce the première of an important work for string orchestra by noted American composer Gregory Sullivan Isaacs. The work, entitled «Night Into Dawn » was commissioned by Gary Levinson (Principal Associate Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony) for The Violins of Hope, Miami and The Young Israel Congregation and The Shul of Bal Harbour. The work will be premièred on December 2nd, 2019 at 8 P.M. at The Shul Sanctuary, 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, FL

The Violins of Hope are violins that were played by Jews during the Holocaust and have been restored by Amnon Weinstein. Night Into Dawn is a programmatic work that describes the Night, the decent of anti-Semitism, the brutality of the Holocaust and the Dawn, the renewal of the Jewish spirit.

“Since the Violins of Hope project is about the restored instruments, I decided to write individual and unique parts for each player rather than dividing them into larger groups such as first and second violins,” said Isaacs. The piece lasts about 12 minutes and Isaacs will conduct this world premiere performance.

Violinist Gary Levinson will sit in the solo violin chair and also act as concertmaster. “Gary and I are close friends and I am grateful for his energy that made this all possible,” said Isaacs.

Just released: the new edition of Claude Debussy's Poème for violin and orchestra, completed by Robert Orledge

orchestration: 21EH22/4200/timp/1perc(susp. cym;/trangle)hp/strings (minimum 12.10.8.6.4) with solo violin

duration: aprox: 10'00"

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Debussy’s close friendship with the American violinist Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956) began in 1908, and in the summer of 1910 they planned an American tour of 24 East Coast cities during January-February 1912. During this tour, Debussy was to “conduct the orchestra, an opera of my composition [possibly at this stage The Fall of the House of Usher], or play the piano.” And in every concert, Hartmann was to perform Debussy’s specially composed Poème pour violon et orchestre as the main highlight of the evening. Although the fee of $15000 that Debussy demanded eventually proved too high for the organisers, he wrote two themes for the Poème in 1910, and in January 1914, when he arranged his piano prelude Minstrels for ‘piano et Hartmann’, he added three more, quite extended, and motivically linked themes. As in the case of his sketches for the contemporary ballet No-ja-li, these were virtually all the material necessary for him to complete the work, and as Debussy had no hesitation in asking other composers, such as André Caplet, Charles Koechlin and Henri Busser, to help him complete or orchestrate his works in the 1910-14 period, Robert Orledge decided to complete this masterful work, which was premièred in its final form on 4 March 2013 by Isabelle Faust (Vln), with Orchestre de Lyon, conducted by Heinz Holliger. For more infromatino and for links to purchase scores/piano reductions, please visit this page.