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George Whitefield Chadwick, Rip Van Winkle Overture
George Whitefield Chadwick, Rip Van Winkle Overture By Byron Adams, University of California, Riverside Written for the concert Revisiting William Grant Still, performed on March 22, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Although one of his biographers has referred to him as a “common man,” George Whitefield Chadwick, while hardly cutting a romantic…
Read MoreWilliam Grant Still, Darker America, Africa, Symphony No. 2
William Grant Still, Darker America, Africa, Symphony No. 2 By Catherine Parsons Smith is the author of William Grant Still (Illinois, 2008); William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions (California, 2000); and Making Music in Los Angeles (California, 2007) Written for the concert Revisiting William Grant Still , performed on March 22, 2009 at Avery…
Read MoreEdgard Varèse, Offrandes
Egard Varèse, Offrandes By Byron Adams. University of California, Riverside Written for the concert Revisiting William Grant Still, performed on March 22, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. “I cannot resist that burning desire to go beyond those limits” wrote the French-born composer Edgard Varèse in 1928. By then, Varèse had already trod a…
Read MoreRevisiting William Grant Still
Revisiting William Grant Still 03/22/2009 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Operas, symphonies, concerti, chamber music, art songs, film scores, popular music—William Grant. Still embraced all of America’s music, and ranks among the greatest American composers. Rivaled only by Leonard Bernstein in the variety of his output, Still trained and worked with…
Read MorePersecution 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…
Read MoreLuigi Dallapiccola, Volo di notte
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…
Read MorePersecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience
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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