Vincent Persichetti Revealed
The Vincent Persichetti concert at Bruno Walter Auditorium, featuring
"Infanta Marina" for viola and piano and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Blackbird” for soprano and piano was performed by violist David Wallace
and mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato with pianist/composer Larry Thomas
Bell. Bell, a student of Persichetti, and musicologist Andrea Olmstead
are from Boston and they spoke about the composer’s music, teaching, and
influence, and they spoke and spoke and spoke and spoke. Just as a
faint glimmer of hope of the actual performance was raised with the
violist’s bow and the singer’s chin, they spoke again. And again. Then
they began to play, but stopped to speak once more. And so it went on.
They were drunk with pleasure at being able to talk about their great,
late mentor, and the audience just wished it was drunk. Some were.Read more about Vincent Persichetti
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