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Symphony No. 7 (1958)
Symphony No. 7 (1958) By Bernard Jacobson Written for the concert The Composer’s Advocate: Serge Koussevitzky, performed on March 17, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Call a boy “Amadeus,” and you lay on him the burden of rather high expectations. From the vantage-point of the late 1990s, it is hard to remember…
Read MoreDouble Bass Concerto (1905)
Double Bass Concerto (1905) By Gary Karr Written for the concert The Composer’s Advocate: Serge Koussevitzky, performed on March 17, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In a letter dated April 9, 1970, Leopold Stokowski, the founder of the American Symphony Orchestra, invited me to appear with him in concert with a solo…
Read MoreOde for Orchestra (1943)
Ode for Orchestra (1943) By Bernard Jacobson Written for the concert The Composer’s Advocate: Serge Koussevitzky, performed on March 17, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. To a composer of Stravinsky’s tastes and creative habits, the 1943 commission to write a piece in memory of Natalie Koussevitzky must have been irresistible. All through…
Read MoreTriple Concerto
Triple Concerto By Richard Wilson Written for the concert The Composer’s Advocate: Serge Koussevitzky, performed on March 17, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Though a Beethoven fan, I have always hated his Triple Concerto. Now having written my own, I have re-listened to his and found that it has improved considerably since…
Read MoreMusic of the 1960s
Music of the 1960s 01/17/1999 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Music of the 1960s – Leon Botstein Carter, Berio, and the “Events” of 1968 – David Schiff Preghiere [Prayer] (1962) – Bernard Jacobson Paroles Tiseés [Woven Words] (1965) – Bernard Jacobson
Read MoreCarter, Berio, and the "Events" of 1968
Carter, Berio, and the “Events” of 1968 By David Schiff Written for the concert Music of the 1960s, performed on January 17, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Anyone looking for the musical Zeitgeist of the 1960s (the long 1960s, which extended from Kennedy’s election through Nixon’s resignation) would turn first to the…
Read MorePreghiere [Prayer] (1962)
Preghiere [Prayer] (1962) By Bernard Jacobson Written for the concert Music of the 1960s, performed on January 17, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Good things, as everybody knows, come in threes. The whimsical but affectionate birthday dedication of Alban Berg’s Chamber Concerto to his teacher Arnold Schoenberg allusively hints that such good…
Read MoreParoles Tiseés [Woven Words] (1965)
Paroles Tiseés [Woven Words] (1965) By Bernard Jacobson Written for the concert Music of the 1960s, performed on January 17, 1999 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Chopin died in 1849. For more than one hundred years after that, despite a glorious creative tradition going back to the polyphonic masters of the sixteenth century,…
Read MoreMusic and Visual Imagination
Music and Visual Imagination 11/11/1998 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Music and Visual Imagination – Leon Botstein Miske (“In the Forest”) (1901) – Leon Botstein Second Rhapsody (1931) – Carol J. Oja, College of William and Mary “Mathis der Maler” Symphony (1934) – Bernard Jacobson Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene…
Read MoreMiske (“In the Forest”) (1901)
Miske (“In the Forest”) (1901) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Music and Visual Imagination, performed on Nov 11, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. M.K. Ciurlionis (1875-1911) is with little doubt the leading artistic personality of turn-of-the-century Lithuania. In modern history Lithuania has witnessed the subordination of its national culture (particularly…
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