Symphonic Jazz Works

Concerto for Jazz Violin and Orchestra (2007)

I.    Blue Reel

II.   Ballad
III.  Step Dance

for symphony orchestra and violin solo 

Commissioned by Chien Tan

Winner of the University of Miami
Concerto Competition

Duration: 15-16 minutes

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Routenberg's Jazz Violin Concerto has become the composer's most popular work, with performances around the world spanning three continents.

"The Jazz Violin Concerto has all the seriousness of a classical work—three movements, sophisticated orchestration, great development—but it also has the appeal of idiomatic fiddle writing, evoking wide open skies, sort of along the lines of Aaron Copland. Finally, it's got the 'it factor' of a jazz piece, and it allows the solo voice to really shine through, taking risks."

-Christian Howes, jazz violinist

 

"The Concerto for Jazz Violin is groundbreaking with the use of improvised violin solos."

-Andrew Paul, US Embassy Cultural Attaché in Kyiv, Ukraine

 

"Routenberg's Concerto for Jazz Violin and Orchestra was wonderful, its syncopated embellishments reminiscent of Aaron Copland, an American hoedown and a whole lot more.  This compostion is a true keeper, every bit as fine as much of Copland and Leonard Bernstein."

-THE NEAPOLITAN, Peg Goldberg Longstreth, Naples, Florida

 

 Program Notes
 

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