Creative Links

Creative Links 11/18/2005 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Creative Links – Leon Botstein Chain 2, Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra (1985) – Michael Klein, Temple University Musique funèbre (1958) – Michael Klein, Temple University Symphony No. 3 (1983) – Michael Klein, Temple University Symphony No. 1 (1947) – Michael…

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Chain 2, Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra (1985)

Chain 2, Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra (1985) By Michael Klein, Temple University Written for the concert Creative Links: The Career of Witold Lutoslawski, performed on Nov 18, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Beginning with the completion of his Jeux vénitiens in 1961, Lutoslawski composed a long line of large-scale works of…

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Musique funèbre (1958)

Musique funèbre (1958) By Michael Klein, Temple University Written for the concert Creative Links: The Career of Witold Lutoslawski, performed on Nov 18, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Lutoslawski wrote that after a performance of his Symphony No. 1 in 1949, the Polish minister of culture “stormed into the conductor’s room and…

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Symphony No. 3 (1983)

Symphony No. 3 (1983) By Michael Klein, Temple University Written for the concert Creative Links: The Career of Witold Lutoslawski, performed on Nov 18, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Beginning in the 1960s, Lutoslawski’s international reputation brought him enough commissions and performances to allow full devotion to composition. In 1974, while receiving…

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Symphony No. 1 (1947)

Symphony No. 1 (1947) By Michael Klein, Temple University Written for the concert Creative Links: The Career of Witold Lutoslawski, performed on Nov 18, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Witold Lutoslawski began composing his Symphony No. 1 in 1941, during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Relatively unknown as a composer, and with…

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