Archive for April 2010
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 04/27/2010 at 07:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space program subject to change Concert Notes
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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 04/25/2010 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space program subject to change Concert Notes
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Beethoven No. 4 & 5 (2nd night) 04/24/2010 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 – 1827) Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 in B flat Major (1806) Beethoven, 5th Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (1807-1808) DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Cello Concerto, No. 3 (1959) Concert Notes
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Beethoven No. 4 & 5 04/23/2010 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 – 1827) Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 in B flat Major (1806) Beethoven, 5th Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (1807-1808) DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Cello Concerto No. 1 (1959) Concert Notes
Read MoreRobert Schumann: Scenes From Goethe's Faust
Robert Schumann: Scenes From Goethe’s Faust 04/09/2010 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center The greatest poetic rendering of the story of the man who sells his soul to the devil, set to music by a composer who knew very well what it is like to be haunted by demons. On the occasion of…
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Robert Schumann By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Robert Schumann: Scenes from Goethe’s Faust (1853), performed on April 9, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Robert Schumann was perhaps the first in a long line of great nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers whose ambitions were as much literary as they were musical. One…
Read MoreRobert Schumann, Szenen aus Goethes Faust
Robert Schumann, Szenen aus Goethes Faust By Paul Griffiths Written for the concert Robert Schumann: Scenes from Goethe’s Faust (1853), performed on April 9, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In October 1838, at a funeral mass in Vienna where Mozart’s Requiem was being performed, Schumann found himself standing next to the composer’s…
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