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Psalm 47, Op. 38 (1904)
Psalm 47, Op. 38 (1904) By Robert McColley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Written for the concert Against the Grain: The German Influence in French Music at the Turn of the Century, performed on April 13, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Igor Stravinsky knew and greatly admired the pathbreaking Psalm 47, Op.38,…
Read MoreDreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music
Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music 03/12/1997 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music 1929-42 – Leon Botstein Rissolty Rossolty (1939) – Judith Tick, Author, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for American Music
Read MoreDreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music 1929-42
Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music 1929-42 By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music performed on March 12, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In his classic 1983 study Music in the New World, Charles Hamm characterizes the period from 1894 to the outbreak of the second…
Read MoreRissolty Rossolty (1939)
Rissolty Rossolty (1939) By Judith Tick, Author, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for American Music Written for the concert Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music performed on March 12, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. After the concert on April 6, 1938, Ruth Crawford Seeger took questions from an audience which had…
Read MoreThe Soul of Poland in Modern Times
The Soul of Poland in Modern Times 01/24/1997 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes The Soul of Poland in Modern Times: The Music of Karol Szymanowski – Leon Botstein Slopiewnie (1928) – Thos. Callen Symphony No. 4 (“Symphony Concertante”) (1932) – Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College Symphony No. 2 (1910)…
Read MoreThe Soul of Poland in Modern Times: The Music of Karol Szymanowski
The Soul of Poland in Modern Times: The Music of Karol Szymanowski By Leon Botstein Written for the concert The Soul of Poland in Modern Times, performed on Jan 24, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Karol Szymanowski’s life and work are bound up with the question of Polish independence and identity, and…
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Slopiewnie (1928) By Thos. Callen Written for the concert The Soul of Poland in Modern Times, performed on Jan 24, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Now is the time for us to lay our foundations for the future. . . Let our music be national in its Polish characteristics but not falter…
Read MoreSymphony No. 4 (“Symphony Concertante”) (1932)
Symphony No. 4 (“Symphony Concertante”) (1932) By Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College Written for the concert The Soul of Poland in Modern Times, performed on Jan 24, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Szymanowski was an ecstatic composer in at least two senses. On the one hand, he wrote trance-like works aiming at…
Read MoreSymphony No. 2 (1910)
Symphony No. 2 (1910) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert The Soul of Poland in Modern Times, performed on Jan 24, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The Second Symphony was considered by Szymanowski one of his best works. In the context of this concert, it provides the listener with an impressive…
Read MoreSymphony No. 3 (“Song of the Night”) (1916)
Symphony No. 3 (“Song of the Night”) (1916) By Adrian Corleonis, Contributor, Fanfare Written for the concert The Soul of Poland in Modern Times, performed on Jan 24, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In the summer of 1914, Szymanowski returned from an extended visit to Sicily and North Africa, stopping over in…
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