The Seasons Project

Robert McDuffie, Leader and Violin Soloist, and the Venice Baroque Orchestra
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• Manager: Tim Fox
  Management Territory: Worldwide

The first performance of the work – Violin Concerto No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" – was so spectacularly played by the new piece's muse, American violinist Robert McDuffie, at Roy Thomson Hall Wednesday night, that the event turned into one of the most exciting musical evenings of the year. —Toronto Star (World Premiere Performance, Toronto, December 9, 2009)

Philip Glass’s new violin concerto, The American Four Seasons…was dignified and contained, even when the soloist launched into passionate flights of virtuosity, which was quite often…Glass has a magical way of giving the merest twist to banality and ordinariness, which makes it interesting – the mark of classic art down the ages. As for the solo performance by Robert McDuffie, it was beyond praise, as cool, poised and heroically strong as a piece of Greek statuary. —London Telegraph (European Premiere Performance, London, April 17, 2010)

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Worldwide premiere tour of a new Philip Glass composition entitled Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra: "The American Four Seasons" which was commissioned by Robert McDuffie, The Toronto Symphony (World Premiere with Peter Oundjian, Conductor), The London Philharmonic (European Premiere), Aspen Music Festival (US Premiere), the Krannert Center (Premiere Tour City) and Johnson County Community College. This new work is inspired by Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons."

This tour will feature the Venice Baroque Orchestra and Robert McDuffie, violin soloist and leader.

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