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Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (1940)
Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (1940) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Richard Strauss, Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (1940), performed on Jan 16, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. When efforts are made to revive a major work that failed to gain acceptance at the time of its creation,…
Read MoreThe Cheerful Mythology
The Cheerful Mythology By David Murray Written for the concert Richard Strauss, Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (1940), performed on Jan 16, 2000 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Strauss was 74 when he began composing Die Liebe der Danae, his fourteenth opera. When he completed it two years later, in 1940, Germany…
Read MoreBruckner's Divided Vienna
Bruckner’s Divided Vienna 12/01/1999 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Bruckner’s Divided Vienna – Leon Botstein Symphony No. 4 (Löwe version) (1888) – Benjamin M. Korstvedt, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota Overture to The Golden Cross (1875) – Anthony Burton Goldmark Violin Concerto – Leon Botstein
Read MoreBruckner’s Divided Vienna
Bruckner’s Divided Vienna By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Bruckner’s Divided Vienna, performed on Dec 1, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Rarely have politics and music engaged each other with such tenacious consistency as in the case of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Vienna and German-speaking Austria. The recent elections in Austria…
Read MoreSymphony No. 4 (Löwe version) (1888)
Symphony No. 4 (Löwe version) (1888) By Benjamin M. Korstvedt, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota Written for the concert Bruckner’s Divided Vienna, performed on Dec 1, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The Fourth Symphony is one of Bruckner’s most well known and popular works, yet tonight’s concert will present a…
Read MoreOverture to The Golden Cross (1875)
Overture to The Golden Cross (1875) By Anthony Burton Written for the concert Bruckner’s Divided Vienna, performed on Dec 1, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In “Bruckner’s divided Vienna” of the late 19th century, Ignaz Brüll (1846-1907) belonged to the opposite camp to Bruckner’s: the circle surrounding Johannes Brahms. A successful pianist…
Read MoreGoldmark Violin Concerto
Goldmark Violin Concerto By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Bruckner’s Divided Vienna, performed on Dec 1, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Asked what he did for a living by an old lady with whom he found himself traveling, Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) is said to have answered, “I am a composer-I am…
Read MoreTales of Edgar Allen Poe
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe 10/15/1999 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Tales of Edgar Allen Poe – Leon Botstein Conte fantastique (1908) – Roger Nichols The Bells, Sergei Rachmaninoff – Robert McColley, Fanfare On the Last Frontier (1997) – Robert Layton, Author of books on Sibelius, Grieg and Berwald…
Read MoreConte fantastique (1908)
Conte fantastique (1908) By Roger Nichols Written for the concert Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, performed on Oct 15, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Unlike Schmitt, who lived on until 1958 and came to be regarded, in the age of Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître, as some kind of fossil, André Caplet…
Read MoreThe Bells, Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Bells, Sergei Rachmaninoff By Robert McColley, Fanfare Written for the concert Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, performed on Oct 15, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Rachmaninoff completed his choral symphony, The Bells, in 1913, and thereafter liked it best of all his works. Its origins are strange enough. A girl he…
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