The Violin Channel
The Violin Channel
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December 1, 2023
Cellist Joshua Roman Presents Concert Exploring the Effects of Long COVID
The program documents Roman's journey as he battled with the illness and eventually healed well enough to return to his performing career.
"Titled Immunity, this program traces Roman's journey through the doubt, struggle, refocus, and renewal he went through as he decided whether or not he would be able to return to his performing career."
Oregon ArtsWatch
James Bash
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October 10, 2023
Footloose and fancy free: Leonard Slatkin with Oregon Symphony
After a gap of many years, the conductor/composer/author returns to Portland for a concert of Mason Bates, Beethoven, and Elgar’s ‘Cello Concerto’ with Joshua Roman.
“[Elgar's Cello Concerto] has an all-encompassing view of the human condition. The breadth of emotion and the scope that he captured in this piece is amazing. A hundred years have passed since he wrote it, and it still resonates strongly.”
NBC News
Erika Edwards
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September 25, 2023
A blood test for long Covid is possible, a study suggests
The findings offer hope to patients like Joshua Roman, 39, of New York City, who participated in the study.
"We're in such a mysterious swamp of symptoms," he said. "My long Covid treatment is just management of symptoms."
Deutschlandfunk
Andreas Robertz
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July 12, 2023
Mysticism and Long Covid: How a New York cellist deals with his illness
Joshua Ronan's voice: Long COVID can mean a whole range of things. In the beginning, everything simply stopped. Everything came to a complete halt. I couldn't play the cello at all.
San Francisco Chronicle
Joshua Kosman
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July 31, 2021
Review: Charismatic S.F. Symphony soloist blends Schumann, Leonard Cohen
It’s not every day you hear an instrumentalist at a classical orchestral concert sing a pop song as an encore. But crazy times demand crazy responses, as cellist Joshua Roman told the San Francisco Symphony audience in Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, July 30.
Chicago Tribune
John von Rhein
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October 13, 2015
Composer, solo cellist: Both hats fit Joshua Roman just fine
The centuries-old tradition of the composer-performer has pretty much fallen by the wayside in our increasingly specialized classical music era, when the creators and re-creators of music do their thing more or less independently, typically coming together only when it serves their purposes.