Evento

The Michael Steinberg and Jorja Fleezanis Fund Second Commission

The Michael Steinberg and Jorja Fleezanis Fund was created in 2009 as a memorial to Michael Steinberg who passed away in July, 2009. This is a commissioning Fund whose mission statement is "to spur curiosity and growth through the performing arts and the written word". Each new commissioned work will incorporate word to music.

June 2, 2019 at 7:30 pm will be the Minnesota premiere of the second commission performed at Westminster Church in Minneapolis. The composer is Emily Cooley and the title of the work is "Slow Song for Mark Rothko". Performers are Anthony Ross, cello, Gregory Millerin, flute, Brian Mount, percussion and Stephen Yoakam, narrator. The other work on the program will be the Mozart Divertimento in E flat Major for string trio with Jorja Fleezanis, violin, Thomas Turner, viola and Anthony Ross, cello.

Mr. Steinberg was a man whose personal mission was to have a public voice in speaking about classical music. He spoke with immediacy and a staggering command of his subject. In his career he was the music critic of the Boston Globe from 1964-75, the program note annotator for the Boston Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony, and a captivating and impassioned speaker at countless pre concert talks for symphony audiences and festivals, setting a remarkable standard of understanding music and those who created it. Oxford University Press has published four books of his program notes and miscellaneous writings.