{"id":5425,"date":"2019-10-20T21:10:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2019-10-30T21:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T21:10:40","slug":"review-joshua-roman-with-the-spokane-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-joshua-roman-with-the-spokane-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Joshua Roman with the Spokane Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2019\/oct\/20\/nakahara-leads-spokane-symphony-confidently-throug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Spokesman-Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nakahara leads Spokane Symphony confidently through \u2018Soviet Transcendence\u2019<\/p>\n<p>By Larry Lapidus<\/p>\n<p>Led by resident conductor Morihiko Nakahara and joined by cello soloist Joshua Roman, the orchestra offered a program of works by Arvo P\u00e4rt (1935-), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) that challenged the audience to face some brutal truths and rewarded with the pleasure that comes with the experience of great art&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In his traversal of the solo part, Roman showed himself to be not only a brilliant instrumentalist, but also an artist of real stature. The purity, commitment and discipline of his playing showed him to be the rarest of species: the selfless virtuoso who dedicates his considerable resources to expressing the moral vision of the composer&#8230;<br \/>\nWhen the audience rose to its feet, he thanked them by performing Mark O\u2019Connor\u2019s \u201cAppalachian Waltz,\u201d another piece that puts great virtuosity to work in the service of utter, selfless simplicity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2019\/oct\/20\/nakahara-leads-spokane-symphony-confidently-throug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spokesman-Review Nakahara leads Spokane Symphony confidently through \u2018Soviet Transcendence\u2019 By Larry Lapidus Led by resident conductor Morihiko Nakahara and joined by cello soloist Joshua Roman, the orchestra offered a program of works by Arvo P\u00e4rt (1935-), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) that challenged the audience to face some brutal truths and rewarded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-joshua-roman-with-the-spokane-symphony\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3633,3685,4010,3686,3612],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}