Posts: Kelly Hall-Tompkins

Music for the Soul: Meet Soloist Kelly Hall-Tompkins

September 14, 2023

Former Broadway “Fiddler on the Roof” star Kelly Hall-Tompkins talks with us about performing Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto—a piece she considers to be one of the greatest violin concertos of the 21st century—and about bringing Music Kitchen: Food for the Soul to Walnut Creek.  Also covered: wine-tasting in Napa, and how Warner Brothers Cartoons influenced her career choice. …

2023-24 Season, Blog, COPLAND—AMERICAN TRADITIONS, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Wynton Marsalis

Program Notes — COPLAND—AMERICAN TRADITIONS

September 5, 2023

Juan Pablo Contreras (b. 1987) MeChicano (2022) Juan Pablo Contreras joins a distinguished line of Mexican-born composers who have brought their sensibilities to concert audiences everywhere: consider Carlos Chavez, Silvestre Revueltas, Manuel Ponce, Arturo Marquez, and Gabriela Ortiz, and many others. Contreras brings his own particular approach to fusing Mexican folk music with the Western…

2023-24 Season, Aaron Copland, COPLAND—AMERICAN TRADITIONS, Juan Pablo Contreras, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Wynton Marsalis