The Berkshire Review, October 27, 2010 — Yehudi Wyner, whose career as a composer and a performing musician goes back some sixty years, finds himself entirely focused on the present at the moment, and very positively so. For one thing, Bridge Records, who have issued the most substantial body of his work on CD, have released his collected sacred music, and Mr. Wyner is very pleased to have it all together in one place. Secondly, he is anticipating the premiere of a new work, a secular cantata called Give Thanks for All Things. As he explains in the interview we now offer as our latest podcast, the work didn't come to him easily, and, although he refuses to pass judgment on it until he hears it played before an audience, he is looking forward to hearing it performed by one of his favorite groups and conductors, The Cantata Singers under David Hoose. Beyond that, he is busily at work revising his Fragments from Antiquity (1978) for a performance by his favorite soprano, Dominique Labelle, with the Lexington Symphony in February, 2011.
In this podcast we talk mostly about Mr. Wyner's formative experiences at the American Academy in Rome, musicians and composers, opera production — yes,Regieoper, too — and his own music and the musical traditions he draws upon, above all his upcoming premiere.
In this podcast we talk mostly about Mr. Wyner's formative experiences at the American Academy in Rome, musicians and composers, opera production — yes,Regieoper, too — and his own music and the musical traditions he draws upon, above all his upcoming premiere.
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