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Coro di morti (1941)
Coro di morti (1941) By Bernard Jacobson Written for the concert From the Last Century, performed on Oct 10, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Completed in 1941, Coro di morti (Chorus of the Dead)stands with Noche oscura—a St. John of the Cross setting written ten years later—as perhaps Petrassi’s (b.1904) finest achievement…
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After Carmina Burana: an Historical Perspective 05/16/2001 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes After Carmina Burana – Leon Botstein Reclaiming Antiquity for the Present: Carl Orff and the Trionfi – Hans Jörg Jans, Orff-Zentrum, Munich
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After Carmina Burana By Leon Botstein Written for the concert After Carmina Burana: an Historical Perspective, performed on May 16, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Tonight we bring our year-long series examining the relationship between music and memory to an end with perhaps the most difficult and emotionally fraught example. We present…
Read MoreReclaiming Antiquity for the Present: Carl Orff and the Trionfi
Reclaiming Antiquity for the Present: Carl Orff and the Trionfi By Hans Jörg Jans, Orff-Zentrum, Munich Written for the concert After Carmina Burana: an Historical Perspective, performed on May 16, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. To my mind, music has two wellsprings: the movements of the dance and the spoken word. The…
Read MoreMemories of the Night
Memories of the Night By Fred Kirshnit Written for the concert After Carmina Burana: an Historical Perspective, performed on May 16, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Symphony No. 7 came to Mahler, uncharacteristically, in two lightning flashes of inspiration. He wrote the two serenades in 1904 and the other three movements in…
Read MoreThe Uses of History: Reincarnations of Beethoven
The Uses of History: Reincarnations of Beethoven 03/30/2001 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Nostalgia: The Past Idealized Through Music – Leon Botstein The Ruins of Athens (1924) – Bryan Gilliam, Duke University The Uses of History: Reincarnations of Beethoven – Leon Botstein Variations and Fugue on a Theme by…
Read MoreNostalgia: The Past Idealized Through Music
Nostalgia: The Past Idealized Through Music By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Nostalgia: The Past Idealized Through Music, performed on Feb 4, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In 1861, the Paris production of Tannhäuser changed the course of music history in France. Charles Baudelaire’s famous essay helped secure Wagner’s place in…
Read MoreThe Ruins of Athens (1924)
The Ruins of Athens (1924) By Bryan Gilliam, Duke University Written for the concert The Uses of History: Reincarnations of Beethoven, performed on March 30, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. For all its obscurity, the Strauss-Hofmannsthal collaborative reworking of Beethoven’s Ruins of Athens – their first mutual effort since Die Frau ohne…
Read MoreVariations and Fugue on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 86 (1915)
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 86 (1915) By Walter Frisch, Columbia University Written for the concert The Uses of History: Reincarnations of Beethoven, performed on March 30, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Max Reger composed his Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven, Op. 86, during the…
Read MoreLooking Forward, Looking Backward
Looking Forward, Looking Backward By Fred Kirshnit Written for the concert The Uses of History: Reincarnations of Beethoven, performed on March 30, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. At the center of the musical universe that was Vienna in the first quarter of the twentieth century, the orbits of two minor but pivotal…
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