Like the unnerving and richly voiced instrument in the movie "The Red Violin," Tuesday's release of the premiere recording of John Corigliano's "Red Violin Concerto" has a winding tale behind it. And it convenes its own formidable cast of characters.
"The reason it happened was rather circuitous and strange," says Corigliano, the composer reunited with the film's famed soloist, Joshua Bell, for this event long awaited by fans of both.
Corigliano is, at 69, the Pulitzer- and Oscar- winning composer of major modern works in American classical music. He was born to the high rank he enjoys, studying as a kid with his violinist-father, John Sr., concertmaster to the New York Philharmonic under both Arturo Toscanini and Leonard Bernstein. 
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