Whether you have a favorite seat at the symphony or you aren’t quite sure of the difference between a violin and a viola, the sound of contemporary classical music can elicit feelings of discomfort.
As listeners, our relationship with new music is a complicated one, as we recently discussed with Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan, whose"will see its U.S. premiere in Dallas later this month. Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti will be the featured soloist.
, which is literally 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, meant to highlight the ambient sounds of the audience and the world around us rather than the music itself. “There’s a lot of music composition that became quite inward and ultra-abstract and specific and esoteric,” Benedetti added. “I don’t think that helped bridge the gap between what a regular person would want to hear and what musicians are choosing to write.”
“Most people in the music world know that and realize that, and they’re always looking for ways to bring new music to new audiences,” MacMillan says. “That seems to be the case in Dallas, which is marvelous.” “[Benedetti] is a great advocate for music, and it’s her personality that’s very apparent in her playing — whatever music she plays,” MacMillan says. “She does have a love of the new, and she has a great commitment to Scottish composers like myself. It feels really nice in a way, like a circle has been completed in the completion of this piece. Because we’re both from Ayrshire, which is in the west of Scotland, we both have similar experiences growing up in this part of the world.
The concerto is written in a single through-composed form, meaning that there aren’t distinct movements like one might expect in a traditional concerto.
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