{"id":95646,"date":"2023-04-07T16:44:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T20:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=95646"},"modified":"2023-04-07T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T20:44:15","slug":"national-arts-centre-alpine-symphony-nobu-plays-rachmaninoff","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/national-arts-centre-alpine-symphony-nobu-plays-rachmaninoff\/2023-05-10\/","title":{"rendered":"National Arts Centre | An Alpine Symphony &#038; Nobu Plays Rachmaninoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight\u2019s guest artist, Japanese pianist\u00a0<strong>Nobu (Nobuyuki Tsujii)<\/strong>, first found himself at a keyboard at the age of 2 picking out a tune he heard his mother hum. Nobu has gone on to become a composer and much sought-after guest pianist, with a legion of fellow concert pianists as admirers. Blind from birth, Nobu learns each piece strictly by ear, and of his performances, iconic pianist Van Cliburn once said \u201c\u2026he was absolutely miraculous. His performance had the power of a healing service. It was truly divine.\u201d Tonight, Nobu performs\u00a0<strong>Rachmaninoff<\/strong>\u2019s glorious and immensely moving\u00a0<em>Piano Concerto No. 2.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Montreal-based composer\u00a0<strong>Keiko Devaux<\/strong>\u00a0is an NAC Orchestra Carrefour composer resident whose approach to composition embraces a love of electroacoustic sounds and \u201cgenre-blurring.\u201d The NAC Orchestra is proud to perform the world premiere of her new work.<\/p>\n<p>Our concert closes with\u00a0<strong>Richard Strauss<\/strong>\u2019s tone poem\u00a0<em>An Alpine Symphony<\/em>, the great composer\u2019s orchestral rendering of the alpine landscape\u2014rousingly rugged in one passage and delicate as snowfall in the next. An Alpine Symphony paints with music the majesty of icy mountains and silent winter nights, and perfectly demonstrates how artists have always listened to the Earth and endeavoured to capture the exquisite beauty of our planet.<\/p>\n<p>The NAC Orchestra is proud to present this concert as part of NACO\u2019s Mentorship Program. Now in its second year, this program provides aspiring young orchestral musicians three immersive and inspiring weeks working side by side with NACO musicians in a professional orchestra setting. The evening\u2019s performance also serves as a fitting bookend to NACO\u2019s year-long exploration of the Orchestra as an ecosystem and the ways in which music and art can serve as inspiration for a way forward in the climate crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight\u2019s guest artist, Japanese pianist\u00a0Nobu (Nobuyuki Tsujii), first found himself at a keyboard at the age of 2 picking out a tune he heard his mother hum. Nobu has gone on to become a composer and much sought-after guest pianist, with a legion of fellow concert pianists as admirers. Blind from birth, Nobu learns each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[6487],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/95646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/95646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95647,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/95646\/revisions\/95647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95646"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=95646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}