Adele Anthony

Adele Anthony is a violinist appearing as soloist with the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra in a program pairing Bach's Double Concerto with a contemporary double concerto by Avner Dorman, alongside Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. Listeners can expect a violinist comfortable moving between baroque dialogue and newer, rhythmically driven writing for two violins.

On this program Anthony performs two works built around a pair of violins in conversation. Bach's Double Concerto in D minor sets two violin lines chasing and answering each other over a steady, walking bass, with a slow middle movement where the two instruments seem to breathe together in long, overlapping phrases. Dorman's Concerto for Two Violins and Strings, subtitled "A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance," moves between somber, keening lines and sharply accented, dance-like passages, asking the soloists to shift character quickly. Listeners drawn to this concert can expect close listening between the two violin soloists, tight rhythmic interplay in the faster music, and a clear, singing tone in the slower passages, before the evening turns to the pastoral scene-painting of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony.