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Josef Bardanashvili Mr. Bardanashvili's new work was commissioned for the 2004-2005 season, and was performed on Saturday, January 15, 2005 at the Whitaker Center (Harrisburg, PA) and on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at Merkin Hall (New York City). 
Born in Georgia near the Black Sea coast in 1949, Josef Bardanashvili immigrated to Israel in 1995 with a hefty musical resum̩. He holds a doctorate from the Music Academy of Tbilisi, was the in-house composer of the world-famous Rustavelli Theater, the director of the Music Academy in Batovei, organized international music festivals, won numerous awards, and served as Deputy Minister of Culture in Georgia. His compositions include symphonies, concerti for violin, guitar, piano, and cello, string quartets and piano trios. He has also composed a rock opera and rock ballet and music for over 20 films and 40 theatre productions. Many leading conductors, ensembles, orchestras, and soloists have performed his music throughout Georgia and Israel, as well as in Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, the UK, and the USA. In addition to his activities as a composer, he is a painter who has exhibited his works in both Georgia and Israel. Notes to NekudotIn Hebrew, nekudot means the points, or dots, representing the vowels found underneath Hebrew letters to create a specific word with specific sounds. The different nekudot are short or long, strong or weak and a single slight difference can radically alter the meaning (and sound) of a word. A variation of these symbols is used to indicate the rise and fall of the voice, the punctuation and often the dramatic implications, in traditional Jewish prayer and chanting of the Torah. Nekudot also means, quite simply, the periods at the ends of sentences. In life, as in music, each of us inflects and punctuates decisions, ideas, actions, certain periods of time, even the end of time. All of the above meanings of nekudot are reflected in the piece you are about to hear: strong and weak tonal centers, strong and weak dynamics Рand in the form of the piece itself, with each episode representing or reflecting a certain vowel. In the coda, each instrument can be recognized by what has become, over the course of the piece, its characteristic point or sound. In addition to elements of traditional Jewish chant, Nekudot is also permeated with Georgian folk sounds. Nekudot was commissioned by Concertante and written in 2004. |
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