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Between Theater and Cinema: Silent Film Accompaniment in the 1920s
Between Theater and Cinema: Silent Film Accompaniment in the 1920s By John Pruitt, Bard College Written for the concert Der Rosenkavalier: The Silent Film performed on Dec 19, 1993 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. For the first thirty or so years of the cinema’s existence as a medium, virtually all films were accompanied…
Read MoreShakespeare! Romanticism and Music
Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music 09/26/1993 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music – Leon Botstein “Othello,” Concert Overture, Op. 93 (1892) – Leon Botstein Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare – Nancy Leonard, Bard College “The Tempest,” Symphonic Poem, Op. 31 (1876) – Leon Botstein “Macbeth,” Symphonic Poem, Op. 23 (1888)…
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“Othello,” Concert Overture, Op. 93 (1892) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music performed on Sep 26, 1993 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. When Antonin Dvorák came to the United States in 1892, he was hailed as the moral equivalent of Christopher Columbus. The second most distinguished European composer…
Read MoreNineteenth-Century Shakespeare
Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare By Nancy Leonard, Bard College Written for the concert Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music performed on Sep 26, 1993 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. An old science-fiction story has William Shakespeare traveling mysteriously through time to register at a major American university for a course in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.”…
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“The Tempest,” Symphonic Poem, Op. 31 (1876) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music performed on Sep 26, 1993 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. John Knowles Paine is perhaps best known for being the first incumbent of a professorial chair in music at Harvard University. He studied in Germany…
Read More“Macbeth", Symphonic Poem, Op. 23 (1888)
“Macbeth”, Symphonic Poem, Op. 23 (1888) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music performed on Sep 26, 1993 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. During the 1880s the enormously gifted young Richard Strauss underwent a musical transformation that drew him away from the more classical traditions favored by his father,…
Read More“Hamlet", Overture-Fantasy, Op. 67a (1888)
“Hamlet”, Overture-Fantasy, Op. 67a (1888) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music performed on Sep 26, 1993 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Hamlet was the last of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s symphonic poems based on Shakespeare and other literary sources. The idea of doing Hamlet first had been suggested in…
Read MoreFocus on a Masterwork: Brahms's Fourth Symphony
Focus on a Masterwork: Brahms’s Fourth Symphony 04/30/1993 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Botstein Focus on a Masterwork, Brahms’s Fourth Symphony – Leon Botstein Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (1885) – Walter Frisch, Columbia University Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (1909; rev. 1949) – Richard…
Read MoreBotstein Focus on a Masterwork, Brahms's Fourth Symphony
Botstein Focus on a Masterwork, Brahms’s Fourth Symphony By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Focus on a Masterwork: Brahms’s Fourth Symphony performed on April 30, 1993 at Carnegie Hall. This concert brings to the contemporary audience a reminiscence of a time in the history of music when the piano was the primary means of…
Read MoreSymphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (1885)
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (1885) By Walter Frisch, Columbia University Written for the concert Focus on a Masterwork: Brahms’s Fourth Symphony performed on April 30, 1993 at Carnegie Hall. Especially in its formidable E-minor outer movements, Brahms’s Fourth Symphony presents a gruff exterior to its listeners. As such, it has never…
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