Name: Celtic Connections - Béla Fleck
Start: 2016-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Fergus Macleod

Instrumentalist

Béla Fleck

Banjo

Liam O'Flynn

Uilleann Piper

Arty McGlynn

Guitar

Rod McVey

Keyboard

Celtic Connections - Béla Fleck

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Public

Concerto for Banjo

Jnanakumar P

Approved

In one particular sense, Béla Fleck fulfilled a birthright in writing his acclaimed banjo concerto, commissioned by the Nashville Symphony and premièred in 2011 – despite its tellingly, albeit deceptively, humble title: The Impostor. The native New Yorker and 15-time Grammy-winner’s full name, Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (“The torture started in kindergarten,” he once told Time), is for Bartók, Webern and Janácek - as if his parents, in referencing two folk-inspired and one avant-garde classical greats, somehow prefigured Fleck’s uniquely genre-spanning career, including this first solo-penned orchestral work.

Tonight’s European première features its author amidst the full might of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The strings of the orchestra also provide aptly classy accompaniment to the man many regard as Ireland’s greatest living uilleann piper, Liam O’Flynn, who’s also flanked by legendary guitarist Arty McGlynn and Rod McVey on keyboards, in a programme of his previously orchestrated repertoire, including excerpts from Shaun Davey’s The Brendan Voyage.

English

Celtic Connections - Béla Fleck by Unknown, A. /., Fra (2016/2016), Dirigent Fergus Macleod, City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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