Archive for February 2009
Persecution and Hope
Persecution and Hope By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Persecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience, performed on Feb 20, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. It is not an exaggeration to assert that Luigi Dallapiccola was the greatest Italian composer of the twentieth century. He was an almost exact contemporary of Aaron…
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Luigi Dallapiccola, Volo di notte By Paul Griffiths Written for the concert Persecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience, performed on Feb 20, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Dallapiccola found his voice in protest. After a long period of training and self-education, during which first Debussy and then Schoenberg were shocks to his system, he…
Read MoreLuigi Dallapiccola, Il prigioniero
Luigi Dallapiccola, Il prigioniero By Paul Griffiths Written for the concert Persecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience, performed on Feb 20, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The origins of Dallapiccola’s second opera go back to June 1939, just a couple of months after he had completed Volo di notte. He was visiting Paris with…
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Persecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience 02/20/2009 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center A courageous composer who publicly reviled Mussolini– and openly used music to oppose Italian fascism Two of Dallapiccola’s most affecting works stand as monumental moral testaments. Night Flight was written in response to the rise of fascism, and is…
Read MoreRevueltas: La noche de los mayas
Revueltas: La noche de los mayas 02/08/2009 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Silvestre Revueltas lived his short life as his music—impulsive, eccentric and distinctly Mexican. His film score, La noche de los mayas (“The Night of the Mayas”), is described as “a workout for the orchestra”. How much did Latin American folk…
Read MoreTsontakis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Revueltas-02/07/09
Tsontakis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Revueltas-02/07/09 02/07/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Revueltas’s La Noche de los Mayas, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter,” and Claire de Lune work by Bard’s Distinguished Composer-in-Residence George Tsontakis. Concert Notes
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Tsontakis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Revueltas 02/06/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Revueltas’s La Noche de los Mayas, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter,” and Claire de Lune work by Bard’s Distinguished Composer in Residence George Tsontakis. Concert Notes
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