LEAVING A MARK ON MUSIC HISTORY
BURLINGAME, CA—It took a senior musician confined to the back rows to come up with something new and novel in his premiere. Meet composer Shinji Eshima, a bass player relegated to the back of orchestras, rarely getting solos or, even rarer, contrabass concertos. His notable first was the lineup for a quintet even rarer than Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet (which, yes, also has a string bass): Clarinet, piano, marimba, cello and bass. The night’s versatile cellist Emil Miland, who has been…