Chicago Sinfonietta engaged saxophonist Julian Velasco as a soloist for its season opener, which marked its first without Terrance Malone Gray.
, a nationally touring saxophone quartet that’s become Gen Z’s answer to the PRISM Quartet, is fiendishly good and fiendishly goofy in equal measure.concertoLuckily, Chicago Sinfonietta has made an Olympic sport of high-jumping over classical convention for 35 years, and didn’t bat an eye in engaging ~Nois saxophonist Julian Velasco as a soloist for its season opener on Saturday and Monday.
The musicality, however, was all Velasco’s. The young soloist played his saxophone like a one-pipe organ, conjuring distinct timbres on a dime — burly passages evaporated into wispy harmonics and arpeggios flowed with the liquid ease of a bowed instrument. Stylistic pirouettes seemed just as effortless. During his hammy final cadenza, Velasco parlayed a bebop-y solo into a spirit-band-style ditty, all served with a generous heaping of stank.
But there were further heights still to come, like Chen and Sinfonietta’s crisp, striding account of Ottorino Respighi’s “Pines of Rome.” Chen, who tends to fire on all cylinders early on and stay there in extroverted rep, reined in the majestic final movement so the orchestra didn’t fully crest until the piece’s end. The payoff was sublime, as were inner-movement solos by principal clarinetist Leslie Grimm and English hornist June Matayoshi.
. The Sinfonietta’s season opener not only marked its 35th season but the beginning of its first without Gray, and the first time it had performed as an ensemble since his death.Assistant principal cellist Edward Kelsey Moore shared memories of the man he called his “best friend” in remarks from the stage.
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