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Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (1909; rev. 1949)
Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (1909; rev. 1949) By Richard Hoffman, Oberlin Conservatory Written for the concert Focus on a Masterwork: Brahms’s Fourth Symphony performed on April 30, 1993 at Carnegie Hall. Despite — or because of — a series of bitter disappointments during the years 1908 and 1909, both in his personal life…
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Unjust Obscurity? 02/26/1993 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Overture from the Music to Shakespeare’s Tragedy, “King Lear” (1859) – Leon Botstein Unjust Obscurity? – Leon Botstein La Mort de Tintageles – Philip Hale Concerto for Piano Left Hand – Leon Botstein Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 15…
Read MoreOverture from the Music to Shakespeare's Tragedy, "King Lear" (1859)
Overture from the Music to Shakespeare’s Tragedy, “King Lear” (1859) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Unjust Obscurity? performed on Feb 26, 1993 at Carnegie Hall. The evolution of concert music in Russia and Eastern Europe during the late nineteenth century can be understood as governed by a continual tension and uneasy symbiosis between…
Read MoreLa Mort de Tintageles
La Mort de Tintageles By Philip Hale Written for the concert Unjust Obscurity? performed on Feb 26, 1993 at Carnegie Hall. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck, the author of Pelléas et Melisande and the 1894 play Le Mort de Tintagiles is remembered today more for his influence on music than for his literary achievement. Few…
Read MoreConcerto for Piano Left Hand
Concerto for Piano Left Hand By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Unjust Obscurity? performed on Feb 26, 1993 at Carnegie Hall. Franz Schmidt’s music has always been the object of fanatical advocacy by a small group of connoisseurs. His opera Notre-Dame (1904), the oratorio The Book of the Seven Seals (1937), the four symphonies…
Read MoreSymphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 15 (1907)
Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 15 (1907) By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Unjust Obscurity? performed on Feb 26, 1993 at Carnegie Hall. Before the mid-twentieth century-the era of Penderecki and Lutoslawski-the two greatest figures in the history of music in Poland were Frederic Chopin and Karol Szymanowski. Like Chopin, Szymanowski was…
Read MoreAmerican Modernism Seen & Heard: The Abstract and Geometric Tradition in Music and Painting, 1930-1975
American Modernism Seen & Heard: The Abstract and Geometric Tradition in Music and Painting, 1930-1975 By Leon Botstein Written for the concert American Modernism Seen & Heard: The Abstract and Geometric Tradition in Music and Painting, 1930-1975 performed on Dec 20, 1992 at Carnegie Hall. Modernism in music during the twentieth century evolved in ways fundamentally…
Read MoreSteve Reich’s "Music for Pieces of Wood"
Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood By Leon Botstein Written for the concert American Modernism Seen & Heard: The Abstract and Geometric Tradition in Music and Painting, 1930-1975 performed on Dec 20, 1992 at Carnegie Hall. Steve Reich (b. 1936) is one of America’s leading composers. He was trained as a drummer and quickly became…
Read MoreHenry Cowell’s "Synchrony"
Henry Cowell’s Synchrony By Judith Tick, Department of Music, Northeastern University Written for the concert American Modernism Seen & Heard: The Abstract and Geometric Tradition in Music and Painting, 1930-1975 performed on Dec 20, 1992 at Carnegie Hall. Henry Cowell (1897-1965) used the term Synchrony, because he planned to combine music with the elements of dance and…
Read MoreRuth Crawford Seeger’s "Three Songs to Poems by Carl Sandberg for Voice, Oboe, Piano, Percussion, and Optional Orchestral Ostinato"
Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Three Songs to Poems by Carl Sandberg for Voice, Oboe, Piano, Percussion, and Optional Orchestral Ostinato By Judith Tick, Department of Music, Northeastern University Written for the concert American Modernism Seen & Heard: The Abstract and Geometric Tradition in Music and Painting, 1930-1975 performed on Dec 20, 1992 at Carnegie Hall. As a composer…
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