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Orchestral Variantions (1957)
Orchestral Variantions (1957) By Kyle Gann Written for the concert Nadia Boulager: Teacher of the Century, performed on May 13, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. If Nadia Boulanger became famous for teaching American composers, one of her first remained her most famous: Aaron Copland (1900-1990). Copland, who sailed to France to study…
Read MoreIcare (1952)
Icare (1952) By Bernard Jacobson Written for the concert Nadia Boulager: Teacher of the Century, performed on May 13, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Was Igor Markevitch himself Icarus? Irresistibly evoking the legend of the young pioneer who flew too near the sun, Markevitch’s composing career looks in hindsight very much like…
Read MoreThe Musical Romance of Childhood
The Musical Romance of Childhood 04/05/1998 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes The Musical Romance of Childhood – Leon Botstein The Wand of Youth, Suite I, Op. 1a (1907) – Bernard Jacobson Memories of My Childhood (1925) – Carol J. Oja, College of William and Mary Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53…
Read MoreThe Wand of Youth, Suite I, Op. 1a (1907)
The Wand of Youth, Suite I, Op. 1a (1907) By Bernard Jacobson Written for the concert The Musical Romance of Childhood, performed on April 5, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. “What remains for ever a wonder is Sir Edward Elgar’s want of youth,” said a review in those dangerous days when critics…
Read MoreMemories of My Childhood (1925)
Memories of My Childhood (1925) By Carol J. Oja, College of William and Mary Written for the concert The Musical Romance of Childhood, performed on April 5, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Few escape the politics of their time, as Charles Martin Loeffler’s Memories of My Childhood vividly shows. Seeming on the…
Read MoreSymphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (1903)
Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (1903) By Timothy L. Jackson, University of North Texas Written for the concert The Musical Romance of Childhood, performed on April 5, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. By 1902-03, the years in which Richard Strauss composed his Symphonia Domestica, the idea of composing a symphony about one’s own…
Read MoreMusic of Conscience
Music of Conscience 02/25/1998 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Music of Conscience – Leon Botstein Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50 (1936-58) – Misha Donat Jewish Chronicle (1961) – Misha Donat
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Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50 (1936-58) By Misha Donat Written for the concert Music of Conscience, performed on Feb 25, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In July 1935 Hanns Eisler wrote enthusiastically to Bertolt Brecht from Moscow, about an idea he had had for a new work: I want to write a large…
Read MoreJewish Chronicle (1961)
Jewish Chronicle (1961) By Misha Donat Written for the concert Music of Conscience, performed on Feb 25, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The history of anti-fascist protest in art has seen some distinguished contributions from leading figures of the twentieth century. One thinks of Picasso’s Guernica, of Camus’s La Peste, of Schoenberg’s…
Read MoreRichard Strauss's Die agyptische Helena
Richard Strauss’s Die agyptische Helena 01/18/1998 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Richard Strauss’s Die agyptische Helena – Leon Botstein The Egyptian Helen (Original Version, 1928) – Bryan Gilliam, Duke University Strauss, Marriage, and The Egyptian Helen – James Miller
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