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Posted on Wed, Jun 10, 2009
Ladies' night near D.C., in Higdon's 'Violin Concerto'
NORTH BETHESDA, Md. - New concertos pop up so frequently that composers worry that they're turning into concerto machines. The venerable Elliott Carter is up to 11, the reliable Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has written eight, and Jennifer Higdon has followed up her breakthrough Concerto for Orchestra with seven more works in that medium, most recently a Violin Concerto that has had so many performances that abundance of supply clearly hasn't lessened demand. »Read story
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