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Premiere of my Cello Concerto with cello soloist Constantine Janello with Brian Dollinger conducting the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra on November 12, 2022 at the Wesley United Methodist Church, just blocks from the Mississippi River. Here are my program notes:

David Stern’s Cello Concerto was composed in 2016-17 and is scored for cello soloist with chamber orchestra. As is typical of Dr. Stern’s orchestral works, this concerto is written in a neotonal style with influences from Barber, Debussy, Vaughan Williams and Copland as well as from earlier masters. The Cello Concerto is in the traditional fast-slow-fast format although the fast movements here are in moderate tempo. Throughout, the emphasis is on the lyrical themes rather than on virtuoso display, although there is room for that as well. The first movement is in sonata allegro form with a lively coda. The slow (second) movement has variations on a theme with some freely flowing development. The last movement is in a kind of sonata form in which the thematic material is generally developed from the opening chorale-like melody. Grammy winning cellist David Darling heard the demo to this concerto and called it “beautiful and transcendental.”