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    Default "The Mandolin Meets Vivaldi" in NE Ohio

    A friend of mine shared this by e-mail. I don't know John Reynolds, but am sincerely curious. I may try to listen in.

    Please plan on joining us for :
    VIRTUAL CONCERT: The Mandolin Meets Vivaldi
    Hudson Library & Historical Society

    Sunday, Mar. 28, 2 p.m.

    You needn't leave home. You don't need to live in the vicinity of Kent, and we won't be passing a basket!

    The Hudson Library & Historical Society will welcome John Reynolds & Company for a virtual concert titled "The Mandolin Meets Vivaldi" on Sunday, March 28 at 2p.m. The program will include the "Spring" and "Autumn" concerti from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Vivaldi’s Double Mandolin Concerto, two sonatinas by Beethoven, and an aria arranged for mandolin, cello, and strings from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute.

    This concert will premiere on the library’s Facebook page on Sunday, March 28 at 2 p.m. and will be available for streaming on the library's YouTube page anytime thereafter. Access the library’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HudsonLibra...toricalSociety.

    John Reynolds & Company: musicians for this concert include John Reynolds, principal mandolin; Mark Polanka, mandolin; Timothy Staron, concertmaster; Shirley Keirnan, violin; Devon Caskey, viola; Greg Fiocco, cello; and Alexandre Marr, harpsichord and piano.

    This concert is being sponsored by the Friends of the Hudson Library & Historical Society. For more information, email AskUs@hudson.lib.oh.us or visit hudsonlibrary.org.

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    Default Re: "The Mandolin Meets Vivaldi" in NE Ohio

    The event's given time, by the way, is as EDT (UTC−04:00).

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    Default Re: "The Mandolin Meets Vivaldi" in NE Ohio

    That was weird. Metal cone plays Vivaldi. I think he was going for more volume, but played so softly it didn't matter.

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    I have to agree. I didn't know what to expect, but I admit that a resonator mandolin wasn't on my list of potential expectations. I'd rather the tone color of a more conventional mandolin played loudly than that of a resonator played softly in this context. The repertoire was also too deeply couched in standards (albeit sometimes violin standards) for my taste: all major composers all the time, no mandolin-specialist composers represented. The interpretations were a little too straight, too rigid, too mechanical for me. Pulse was maintained and the notes were mostly correct, but the mannerisms associated with their delivery were also weird.

    Whatever. I am glad that somebody tried in some small and quirky way to make the world better aware that mandolins can occur in so-called "classical" music.

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