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16 April 2024
The Bell of the Ball
BY RICHARD MINEARDS | APRIL 16, 2024
Grammy-winning violinist Joshua Bell and St. Martin in the Fields gives a sublime performance
(photo by Benjamin Ealovega)
Our Eden by the Beach’s Community Arts Music Association ended its 105th
International Series on a particularly high note when the U.K.’s 66-year-old
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – under the directorship of legendary
Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell – played a sold-out concert at the
Granada.
The wonderfully entertaining show featured the world premiere of Vince
Mendoza’s “Flight of Moving Days,” a new commission to mark the centenary of
founder Sir Neville Marriner, also featuring his New York-based percussionist
grandson Douglas Marriner, whose father Andrew is principal clarinetist with
the London Symphony Orchestra.
Luckily for us Mendoza was also in the audience!
Brahms’ “Violin Concerto in D Major” celebrated the concert’s halfway mark, with
Bell, who has performed for three American presidents and the justices of the
