Violinist Paul Huang finally performed his Tucson Symphony Orchestra debut Friday night, two years after his concert was cancelled in 2020 courtesy the pandemic.
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Music Director José Luis Gomez, left, and guest violinist Paul Huang struck all the right notes at Tucson Music Hall Friday night.
Some things are worth the wait, like seeing the University of Arizona men’s basketball team make it to March Madness as a No. 1 seed.
On Friday night, after two years of anticipation, New York violinist Paul Huang made his Tucson Symphony Orchestra debut.
Huang was supposed to play the Barber Violin Concerto with the orchestra on March 13, 2020, but the pandemic spoiled those plans.
On Friday, March 18, he made good on the date, performing Shostakovich’s challenging Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor.
Watching him tease out those somber melodies and frenetically scale the fingerboard to keep up with Shostakovich’s furious note changes was worth the delay.
The last time the TSO performed the Shostakovich — 1993 — many members of the orchestra were likely in grade school/ But on Friday night, they performed the 36-minute piece as if it were part of their musical DNA. TSO Music Director José Luis Gomez emphasized the somberness of the opening lament with softly played baritone-voiced cellos and basses that paved the way for Huang.
Huang coaxed all of the anxiety and emotion that Shostakovich intended when he composed the Violin Concerto in post-World War II Soviet Russia. The Russian composer and many of his contemporaries were constrained from composing from the heart in order to stay on the good side of Stalin so Shostakovich delayed the concerto’s premier until after Stalin had died.
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