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Beethoven's Symphony No. 4
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
Read MoreBeethoven No. 4 & 5
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…
Read MoreRobert Schumann
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…
Read MoreAfter the Thaw
After the Thaw By Leon Botstein Written for the concert After the Thaw, performed on Feb 24, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. One overtly benign but distinguishing feature of the Soviet Union was its commitment to and investment in aspects of high culture, notably music. From the early 1920s, first under Lenin…
Read MoreAlexander Lokshin, Symphony No. 4
Alexander Lokshin, Symphony No. 4 By Laurel E. Fay Written for the concert After the Thaw, performed on Feb 24, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. If the name and music of Alexander Lokshin (1920-87) are unfamiliar to Western audiences, they are not much better known in his native Russia. Despite producing a…
Read MoreBoris Tchaikovsky, Concerto for Cello and Symphonic Orchestra
Boris Tchaikovsky, Concerto for Cello and Symphonic Orchestra By Laurel E. Fay Written for the concert After the Thaw, performed on Feb 24, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. His surname notwithstanding, Moscow native Boris Tchaikovsky (1925-96) was not born into a family of musicians; he bore no relation to his illustrious namesake.…
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After the Thaw 02/24/2010 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center We don’t mean the weather. Stalin’s death resulted among other things in a blossoming of new musical compositions, full of ideas and innovations that shortly before would have resulted in a trip to Siberia. If you liked ASO’s 2008 concert Russian Futurists about composers…
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