Concert Notes
Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, Op. 1 (1893)
Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, Op. 1 (1893) By James Parakilas, Bates College Written for the concert Berlin 1894: A Concert Recreated performed on Dec 11, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. We can easily imagine what it meant to Wilhelm Stenhammar to play his Piano Concerto, Op. 1, with the Berlin…
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Schubert Orchestrated 11/18/1994 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Schubert Orchestrated – Leon Botstein About Schubert’s Arrangers: Mottl, Liszt, Brahms, Joachim – Christopher H. Gibbs
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About Schubert’s Arrangers: Mottl, Liszt, Brahms, Joachim By Christopher H. Gibbs Written for the concert Schubert Orchestrated performed on Nov 18, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The conventional three-phase division of an artist’s career by definition concludes with a last period and occasionally with a distinctive late style.” For Schubert, whose active…
Read MoreDjamileh (1871)
Djamileh (1871) By Lesley A. Wright, University of Hawaii Written for the concert Paris in the 1860s performed on Sep 25, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Bizet’s one-act opera comique, Djamileh (1872) evokes a vision of the non-Western world, like so many other musical, literary and artistic efforts in nineteenth-century France. Meyerbeer’s…
Read MoreParis in the 1860s The Origins of Impressionism
Paris in the 1860s The Origins of Impressionism By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Paris in the 1860s performed on Sep 25, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Understanding art and culture as functions of seemingly unique, easily described national character traits has become a convenient and deceptive habit. There is irony,…
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More on Paris in the 1860s By Matthew Truesdell, University of California Berkeley Written for the concert Paris in the 1860s performed on Sep 25, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. “The Parisian,” noted a perceptive American visitor to Paris in the late 1860s, “cares but little for his home … As much…
Read MoreLa Vie Parisienne: Excerpts (1866)
La Vie Parisienne: Excerpts (1866) By Ian Strasfogel, Theater Director and Specialist on the Music of Offenbach Written for the concert Paris in the 1860s performed on Sep 25, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Far and away the most popular composer of Second Empire France, Jacques Offenbach dominated the Parisian theatre between…
Read MoreThe American 1980’s
The American 1980’s 05/22/1994 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes The American 1980’s – Leon Botstein Happy Voices (1984) – David Del Tredici Voyants (1989) – Peter M. Wolrich “Keys to the City” for Piano and Orchestra (1983) – Tobias Picker Articulations (1989) – Richard Wilson
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Happy Voices (1984) By David Del Tredici Written for the concert The American 1980’s performed on May 22, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Happy Voices is a fugue, the subject of which is in two halves. The first–for strings–is motionless, poised; the second–for woodwinds–a slither of chromatic movement. The interval of the…
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Voyants (1989) By Peter M. Wolrich Written for the concert The American 1980’s performed on May 22, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Commissioned by Radio France, this work evolved from an image of the piano as a voyant (‘seer’) predicting, imagining or calling forth dire events. The piece comprises four sections which…
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