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 <title>Kid Composer Proves Skills at Carnegie Hall</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[<!--paging_filter--><p>Jay Greenberg, the 15-year-old composer who got a big-time Sony recording contract last year, has scored again: His violin concerto had its world premiere Sunday at Carnegie Hall. </p>
<p><a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgWIf7E9KEiglqwASBV3mTgagUugD8SJ3KI01">AP reports</a>: </p>
<blockquote><p>The work, which combines a teenager's rambunctiousness with a mature master's sophistication, shows that the 15-year-old composer is for real.</p>
<p>By the time Sony released Greenberg's first CD in August 2006, he had already written more than 100 works, including five symphonies, 17 piano sonatas and three piano concertos.</p>
<p>The violin concerto, written for Bell and commissioned by the chamber orchestra for its 33rd season, is Greenberg's first for the instrument.</p>
<p>''At one point in my life, I resolved that I would never write a violin concerto,'' Greenberg said in the program notes. ''I no longer recall why exactly I made this resolution; perhaps it was sour grapes, as all of my attempts at violin writing up to that point had been failures.''</p>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:04:24 -0400</pubDate>
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