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Orchestra 2001

Sat., April 14, 8 p.m., Trinity Center, 22nd and Spruce streets; Sun., April 15, 7:30 p.m., Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College


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Published: Apr 10, 2007

classical

Orchestra 2001's upcoming concerts represent an accessible, though not necessarily simple, take on new music. This might seem like an odd way to describe a program that includes music by Gyorgy Ligeti, once one of the wildest avant-gardists, but his Chamber Concerto marked a new direction for the composer, a refinement of his previously uber-experimental ways. The band also presents a new violin concerto from Andrea Clearfield, commissioned by Orchestra 2001 artistic director James Freeman in memory of his mother, Florence Knope, a pioneering female instrumentalist. Clearfield amalgamates a variety of influences in her highly communicative work; this is her first, much-anticipated concerto for the violin. Joseph Schwantner brings more melodiousness with his Sparrows, for soprano and orchestra, and soloist Lucy Shelton will also sing the jaunty Hums and Songs of Winnie the Pooh, by Oliver Knussen.

Sat., April 14, 8 p.m., Trinity Center, 22nd and Spruce streets; Sun., April 15, 7:30 p.m., Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, $10-$30, 215-922-2192, www.orchestra2001.org.