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Jay performing Peer
Gynt At Boston Symphony Hall with Steven Karidoyanes
conducting. Jay's daughter, Laura, interprets the story
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performing Peer Gynt at Boston Symphony Hall with
the New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra, April 2006 |
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Jay performing Peer Gynt at Boston Symphony Hall
April, 2006. Jay's daughter, Laura O'Callahan, isinterpreting
the story for the Deaf. |
- Harry
Ellis Dickson conducting
Peer Gynt and Hary Janos Suite March
1983
I was commissioned to create this work for performance with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra because Harry Ellis Dickson was captivated
by the idea of the story inspiring the composer. Greig was inspired
by the story of Peer Gynt; I was inspired by Grieg.
You enter into the hall of the mountain king with Peer Gynt. The
music has power, but that power is much greater when you realize
that the mountain hall is fisalled with trolls. Peer Gynt is filled
with wonder and terror. That sense rose in me because the music
rose in me. And suddenly the symphony hall becomes the Hall of
the Mountain King.
-Jay O’Callahan
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- Michael
Krajewski conducting
“Telltale Music” January 1985
The nicest compliment I got after performing Hary Janos in Detroit
was a woman rushing backstage saying “You were an instrument! You
were an instrument!” I had become part of the orchestra. The cues
are flying back and forth furiously. You have the battle raging
and you have Hary Janos taking moments in between to describe his
Hungarian heroics.
Krajewski opened with the orchestra telling a story with Offenbach’s
Tales of Hoffmann. I followed with my story “Orange Cheeks, then
we combined efforts in Kodaly’s Hary Janos.
-Jay O’Callahan
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- William
Henry Curry conducting
Peer Gynt November 1986
Music and storytelling are time-bound arts with some shared elements:
introductory and linking material, suspense, repetition and variation,
climaxes and so forth. So it shouldn’t be surprising when they
get together in a mutually enhancing way as they did Sunday when
the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra opened with Jay O’Callahan.
(Full Review)
-Indianapolis Star
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Steven Karidoyanes conducting
Peer Gynt December 2005
It was exciting to work with Steven Karidoyanes again! The
New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra accompanied my telling
of Peer Gynt to First Night Boston audiences. My daughter,
Laura, interpreted for the Deaf. The audience was electric,
the student musicians were professional, and Steven was superb.
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- Steven Karidoyanes
conducting
Peer Gynt and Woe Is Me Bones March
2002
What a delight to work with Steven Karidoyanes, a conductor of
vision and energy. We discovered a brand new way of introducing
the narrator for Peer Gynt. And what fun to tell my own story,
Woe Is Me Bones, after the orchestra played Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s
the Flight of the Bumblebee.
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The Little Dragon March 5, 1994
Tales and Scales commissioned Scott Wheeler to compose music for
Jay’s story, The Little Dragon. Tales and Scales introduces children
to classical music by both playing instruments and acting out a
dramatic work. The Little Dragon was performed with Tales and Scales
and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
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