November 30, 2009
In his latest posting at So I’ve Heard, Alan Rich offers this description of George Tsontakis’ Ghost Variations, played by Eric Huebner on the November 10 Piano Spheres program at Zipper Hall: “I particularly admired the Tsontakis Ghost Variations, a big piano panoramas that sounded notes of grandeur that awoke comparisons to Lisztian transcendental etudes, before settling back upon a paraphase of a Mozartian concerto finale.”
Tsontakis’ new work for LACO – to be titled, appropriately enough, Laconika – will be constructed as a collection of short character pieces. Commissioned by LACO’s Sound Investment group, it will be premiered as part of our season finale concerts on May 15-16, 2010.