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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) 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…
Read MoreInventing America
Inventing America 09/25/2005 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes America: An Epic Rhapsody (1926) – Peter Laki Inventing America – Leon Botstein Symphony No.1 (1927) – Peter Laki Symphony No. 2 (1931) – Peter Laki
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Written for the concert Inventing America, performed on Sep 25, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In 1916, the 35-year-old Ernest Bloch arrived in the United States full of hope and confidence that he would be able to achieve the recognition that had eluded him in his native Switzerland. He later recalled that…
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Written for the concert Inventing America , performed on Sep 25, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Among connoisseurs of twentieth-century American music, the name Roger Sessions inevitably calls forth the adjective “difficult,” an epithet the composer himself acknowledged in a 1950 article in the New York Times, titled “How a ‘Difficult’ Composer…
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Written for the concert Inventing America, performed on Sep 25, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In terms of external biographical facts, Roger Sessions and Randall Thompson have a great deal in common. Both were born in New York of old New England stock within just a few years of each other, and…
Read MoreRichard Strauss Choral Works
Richard Strauss Choral Works 04/17/2005 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Richard Strauss Choral Works – Leon Botstein Olympische Hymne (1934) – Leon Botstein Richard Strauss Choral Works – Bryan Gilliam
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Olympische Hymne (1934) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Richard Strauss Choral Works, performed on April 17, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Strauss wrote the Olympic Hymn with some reluctance, but not because of its political implications. He communicated to Stefan Zweig, the Viennese Jewish librettist of The Silent Woman (and…
Read MoreHans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen 03/11/2005 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Hans Christian Andersen – Leon Botstein The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1974) – Anna Harwell Celenza Overture to Klein Idas Blumen [Little Ida’s Flowers] (1916) – Anna Harwell Celenza Chant du rossignol [Song of the Nightingale] (1917) – Maya Pritsker Die…
Read MoreThe Steadfast Tin Soldier (1974)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1974) By Anna Harwell Celenza Written for the concert Hans Christian Andersen, performed on March 11, 2005 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Like many of Andersen’s fairy tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1838) was written as a personal commentary on the joys and sorrows of life. Andersen regularly used…
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