Concertorama

for piano/synthesizer soloist and orchestra
Duration: 22:00
Date of Composition: 1985

PROGRAM NOTES:

Concertorama is scored for piano/synthesizer soloist and electric orchestra and consists of five sections played as one large movement.  The sections are titled Grand Introduction, Punk Fugue, Famous Chords, Disco Toccata, and Grand Finale with Big Tune.

The musical style of Concertorama is a fantastic amalgam of pop, disco, symphonic music, electronics, and the ‘Grand Romantic Piano Concerto.’  It stems, in part, from the American tradition of transforming popular elements into a “serious” style.  It may be considered to disco and rock what Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is to jazz and pop.

Concertorama was first performed by soloist Yvar Mikhashoff and the Hartford Symphony at an outdoor concert to an audience of 50,000 during the 1984 New Music America Festival in Hartford, Connecticut. -James Sellars

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