{"id":25202,"date":"2015-01-30T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=25202"},"modified":"2016-03-26T18:18:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:18:03","slug":"concert-review-esprit-orchestra-walks-musical-high-wire-with-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/01\/30\/concert-review-esprit-orchestra-walks-musical-high-wire-with-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"SCRUTINY | Esprit Orchestra Walks Musical High Wire With Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_25203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25203\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-30-at-4.22.34-PM.png\" alt=\"Alex Paul and the Esprit Orchestra performed at Koerner Hall on Jan. 29. Photo: Bo Huang\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-30-at-4.22.34-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-30-at-4.22.34-PM-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Pauk and the Esprit Orchestra performed at Koerner Hall on Jan. 29. Photo: Bo Huang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[Originally published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2015\/01\/30\/esprit-orchestra-walks-musical-high-wire-with-grace-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Star<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people talk about how lucky we are to have a boutique orchestra devoted to the performance of contemporary work. And we are. The problem is, Esprit Orchestra only produces four concert per season and, by those numbers, there is a lot riding on every show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>With Thursday night\u2019s program of two world premieres, a Canadian premiere and one rarely performed work, it was like watching Flying Wallendas walk a high wire without a safety net.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>The first half outshone the second in works that were easier to grasp and less abstract. An example was \u201cOver Light Earth,\u201d which is an eerie two-part behemoth inspired by paintings by Rothko and Pollack. Like Morton Feldman before him, Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason transformed the conception of the paintings into a sonic canvas, with each movement responding like artifacts tinged with elements of old Hollywood noir. It was incredibly effective and proves why Bjarnason is a name so commonly repeated amongst contemporary and indie music fans alike.<\/p>\n<p>[Excerpt]<\/p>\n<p>You can read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/2015\/01\/30\/esprit-orchestra-walks-musical-high-wire-with-grace-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people talk about how lucky we are to have a boutique orchestra devoted to the performance of contemporary work. And we are. The problem is, Esprit Orchestra only produces four concert per season and, by those numbers, there is a lot riding on every show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,19,38,52],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-30-at-4.22.34-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-6yu","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32312,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25202\/revisions\/32312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25202"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}