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Anthony Newman
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Back from his sold out performance at Disney Hall..
Anthony Newman continues to be provocative.Los Angeles Times
He launched his appearance on the Organ Series in Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday night with a marvelously iconoclastic Fantasia and Fugue on the "Te Deum" that was drenched with bluesy riffs and circusy themes tumbling about. After knocking out four works by J.S. Bach, Newman replied with his own Toccata, Adagio and Fugue on B-A-C-H, a high-tension roller-coaster ride all around the manuals based upon notes drawn from Bach's name (following Bach's example in "The Art of the Fugue").. Newman came up with a clever idea in patching together three short pieces by Couperin ("Le rossignol en amour"), Rameau ("La Poule," famously used by Respighi in "The Birds"), and Daquin ("Le coucou") into a segment titled "Three French Hens." He also included three organ pieces by Mozart, including a joyous burst of an Allegro in C major, before landing in the 20th century with a high-volume, breathlessly paced rendition of Louis Vierne's ode to Big Ben, "Carillon de Westminster." LOS ANGELES TIMES
During 2007, Bach Maestro Anthony Newman performed organ recitals at the Santa Cruz Baroque Organ Music Festival, Metropolitan Museum and Holy Trinity in New York, returned to the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, toured with flutist Eugenia Zukerman and ended the year with the performance of the Brandenburg Concerti at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City on New Year's Eve. Later in the spring of 2008, Newman will give the Canadian premiere of the Harpsichord Concerto by Philip Glass, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
"High Priest" of the Harpsichord
TIME MAGAZINE
The "High Priest" of Bach
WYNTON MARSALIS
COLLABORATIONS
Anthony Newman is available in concert with flutist Eugenia Zukerman.
Please contact GAMI/Simonds for further information.
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