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DESCRIPTION:Jul 5\, 2026\nMemory may be playing a few tricks on me\, but I 
 don’t think so. The first time I heard the Moscow-born Johnny Gandelsman
 \, now 48\, he was playing Mahler as James Levine’s concertmaster in the
  Verbier Festival Orchestra\, a finishing school for élite conservatory g
 raduates. Next\, I caught him as founder and first violin of the purposefu
 lly eclectic string quartet Brooklyn Rider. The Riders were performing on 
 the Lower East Side in a decommissioned Gothic-revival synagogue putativel
 y modeled on the Cologne Cathedral. In the meantime\, Gandelsman has lent 
 his talents to the Silk Road Ensemble and The Knights\, recorded J. S. Bac
 h’s cello suite on the fiddle\, and been inducted as a MacArthur Fellow 
 in the class of 2024. His project This Is America\, conceived in the first
  months of the pandemic\, is a mosaic of new pieces commissioned from some
  two-dozen composers. Charged with music that might in some way reflect th
 e unrealities of the moment\, they delivered what sounds\, in Gandelsman
 ’s description\, like a composite musical portrait of America on the cus
 p of its first quarter millennium. “Twenty-five voices is a drop in the 
 bucket\,” Gandelsman says\, “but it’s just a way to expand the lens 
 a little bit and just acknowledge that it’s hard to define what classica
 l music is. It’s hard to define what this country is. But it’s not har
 d to find really great creative people and share their music with audience
 s.” At Caramoor\, he offers selections\; for the complete set\, seek out
  the recording\, all three CDs’ worth.
LOCATION:Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts\, 149 Girdle Ridge Rd\, Kat
 onah\, NY 10536
SUMMARY:Johnny Gandelsman\, violin: This Is America
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