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Symphony No. 2, Op. 12
Symphony No. 2, Op. 12 By Matthias Schmidt Written for the concert The Anxiety of Influence: Music as Historical Legacy, performed on Nov 19, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In 1916, in the midst of World War I, Ernst Krenek began his career as a professional artist. The sixteen-year-old started studying with…
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After Carmina Burana: an Historical Perspective 10/20/2000 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Remembrance of Things Past – Leon Botstein Memories of the Night – Fred Kirshnit
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Remembrance of Things Past 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. Over the past forty years, Gustav Mahler has become one of the most discussed and performed composers in American concert life. He was the author of…
Read MoreA Symphonic Saga: Glière’s Ilya Muramets
A Symphonic Saga: Glière’s Ilya Muramets 04/16/2000 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes A Symphonic Saga – Leon Botstein Gliere’s Ilya Muramets: a “Wagner Symphony” – Robert McColley, Fanfare Symphony No. 3, “Ilya Muramets,” Op. 42 (1911) – Anthony Burton
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A Symphonic Saga By Leon Botstein Written for the concert A Symphonic Saga: Glière’s Ilya Muramets, performed on April 16, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In this afternoon’s concert, two recurrent features of the American Symphony Orchestra’s continuing effort to challenge the boundaries of the standard repertory (or the idea of a…
Read MoreGliere’s Ilya Muramets: a “Wagner Symphony”
Gliere’s Ilya Muramets: a “Wagner Symphony” By Robert McColley, Fanfare Written for the concert A Symphonic Saga: Glière’s Ilya Muramets, performed on April 16, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Reinhold Gliere’s Symphony No. 3 (1911), Ilya Muramets, carried into the twentieth century a host of great legacies of the nineteenth century: one…
Read MoreSymphony No. 3, “Ilya Muramets,” Op. 42 (1911)
Symphony No. 3, “Ilya Muramets,” Op. 42 (1911) By Anthony Burton Written for the concert A Symphonic Saga: Glière’s Ilya Muramets, performed on April 16, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Reinhold Gliere’s Third–and last–Symphony was composed between 1909 and 1911, and first performed in Moscow in 1912. It thus belongs to the…
Read MoreBeyond Good and Evil: Nietzshe and Music
Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzshe and Music 03/08/2000 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Beyond Good and Evil – Leon Botstein Mitternachtslied Zarathustras (1898) – Robert Threlfall, Advisor, The Delius Trust, London Hymnus An Das Leben – Kyle Gann, Professor of Music, Bard College, New Music Critic, The Village Voice…
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Beyond Good and Evil By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzshe and Music, performed on March 8, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on twentieth-century thought can hardly be overestimated. During his lifetime his popularity among his contemporaries was remarkable. Also sprach Zarathustra…
Read MoreMitternachtslied Zarathustras (1898)
Mitternachtslied Zarathustras (1898) By Robert Threlfall, Advisor, The Delius Trust, London Written for the concert Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzshe and Music, performed on March 8, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Towards the end of his life, Delius told Eric Fenby that he became acquainted with the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche in…
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