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Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra by Mark Adamo

Sara M. K. Neal — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:01:19 +0000

We are extremely excited for this weekend’s concert, with the Utah Premiere of Mark Adamo’s harp concerto, Four Angels. Our own Principal Harpist, Louise Vickerman, will be performing the concerto, and this will make Vickerman only the second harpist to perform the piece. Very exciting, isn’t it?

If you are looking for more information about the concerto, we’re happy to point you in a few directions! Here are some links:

Salt Lake Tribune article about the background and performance of Four Angels
Notes from the composer, Mark Adamo, about the angels represented in the concerto
An advance article from Salt Lake City arts review, Ed Reichel
An article about harpist Louise Vickerman
A YouTube video of Louise Vickerman performing parts of the concerto, and demonstrating some of the harp techniques used

If you want even more information about the concerto, please join composer Mark Adamo and Music Director Emeritus Keith Lockhart before each concert this weekend at 7:15 PM in the First Tier Room of Abravanel Hall.

Guest Artist Blogs

Jon Miles — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:12:57 +0000

After this weekend’s performance, Alban Gerhardt’s blog popped up in my Google alerts, which inspired me to add a new category to our Blog Roll: Guest Artists. Now, I’m not certain that many of our guests have blogs (in fact, I’m fairly certain that very few of them do), but for those that do, I hope making them available here will help you follow the guests that impress you after their performances with the Utah Symphony. I’ve also begun adding links to their webpages to the concert pages when they’re available (see this example).

When I started working for the Utah Symphony, I found it sad that we have all these talented artists (not to leave out the incredible talent of our own musicians), but they have almost no name recognition outside the classical music bubble. Sure, most everyone knows who Yo-Yo-Ma is, but there are other classical music “rock stars” out there and many of them perform regularly with the Utah Symphony. Hopefully through their blogs and websites you’ll get to know some of them better.