{"id":1121,"date":"2020-02-28T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2020-03-06T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T18:48:43","slug":"michael-hall-viola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/michael-hall-viola\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Musique: Who is Michael Hall?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the second year of concerts for Now Musique<\/a><\/strong>, I’m very excited to be returning to the concert stage with Chicago-base violist and passionate new music advocate Michael Hall. We will be performing in Dorchester, New York City, Boston, and Providence from March 19-24. We will also be performing on MIT Radio’s WMBR ‘Not Brahms and Liszt’ with Alley Stoughton on Monday March 16 and an interview for ‘Conducting Conversations’ with Mike Maino on WCRI will air March 22. The Boston and Providence programs are produced by my Now Musique<\/a>. A complete tour schedule is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q: Who is Michael Hall?<\/strong>
A: <\/strong>Simply, Michael Hall is a fantastic violist who lives in Chicago.
\u2022 More complex, Michael Hall is fantastic violist who lives in Chicago, loves contemporary, taught at Vandercook College, has a DMA from UNC Greensboro.
\u2022 Complex Truth, Michael Hall is fantastic violist who lives in Chicago, loves contemporary, taught at Vandercook College, has a DMA from UNC Greensboro, premiered over 50 works written for him, editor of contemporary music for viola, co-founded the Bandung Philharmonic \u2013 the first professional orchestra of Indonesia. A dad and husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q: How do I find out more about him?<\/strong>
A: http:\/\/michaelhallviola.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: How did you two meet?<\/strong>
A: We met over new music on Twitter and then in person at the Boston “New Music Gathering”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: What are you performing?<\/strong>
A: ‘America’ \u2013 Contemporary duos & solos for viola and guitar by living composers. Each concert will have a slight variation due to program length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PROGRAM<\/strong> (not order)
\u2022 Francine Trester: Borrowed Blue (2019)
\u2022 John Anthony Lennon: Infinite Arrow (2004)
\u2022 Darleen Mitchell: Images
\u2022 Thomas L. Read: Traveller\u2019s Frolic* (2019)
\u2022 Antonio Celso Rebeiro: Melancholy Dressed in Yellow (2019)
\u2022 David Liptak: Freight \u2013 Guitar Solo
\u2022 Tom Flaherty: Steps and Leaps* \u2013 Guitar + Electronics (2019)
\u2022 Alice Shields: Sri Mata \u2013 Viola solo
\u2022 David Froom: Shades of Red \u2013 Viola solo
\u2022 Matthew Davidson: Magyar Rondo \u2013 Viola solo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: How Can I hear you two?<\/strong>
A: <\/strong>Youtube! Music & Interview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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