Concert Notes
“Adagio” from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
“Adagio” from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra By Diane Weintraub Written for the concert A World Apart, performed on Dec 5, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. For Julius Bürger, tonight’s performance, “A World Apart,” is aptly named. Yes, he emigrated to this country during World War II, but he also would…
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More Gold Than Korn By Frederick L. Kirshnit, Le Concertographe Written for the concert A World Apart, performed on Dec 5, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. When egomaniacal composer Alexander Hollenius (brilliantly portrayed by Claude Rains) tells cellist Paul Henreid in the 1946 film Deception that the key to his new concerto…
Read MoreSymphony No. 4, “Dies irae” (1943-45/1972)
Symphony No. 4, “Dies irae” (1943-45/1972) By Hartmut Krones Written for the concert A World Apart, performed on Dec 5, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Early on, the Viennese composer Marcel Rubin (1905-1995) became a citizen of the world both based on his education and his years spent in emigration. Following brief…
Read MoreFrom the Last Century
From the Last Century 10/10/2001 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes From the Last Century – Leon Botstein Piccola musica notturna (1954) – Kyle Gann Violin Concerto (1943) – Meirion Bowen Miserae (1934) – Michael Kube Symphonic Hymns (1942) – Andrew D. McCredie, Professor Adjunctus, Monash University, Melbourne Coro di…
Read MorePiccola musica notturna (1954)
Piccola musica notturna (1954) By Kyle Gann Written for the concert From the Last Century, performed on Oct 10, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The Italian Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) can arguably be considered an honorary fourth member of the twelve-tone Second Vienna School of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Works such as his…
Read MoreViolin Concerto (1943)
Violin Concerto (1943) By Meirion Bowen Written for the concert From the Last Century, performed on Oct 10, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. ‘…a braiding of diverse strands…’ Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) might be considered as a prototype of the exiled twentieth-century composer. His career trajectory, like that of Kurt Weill and many…
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Miserae (1934) By Michael Kube Written for the concert From the Last Century, performed on Oct 10, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, thousands of musicians and artists were persecuted because of their Jewish religion and their politicalor artistic conventions. As restrictive measures were implemented in…
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Symphonic Hymns (1942) By Andrew D. McCredie, Professor Adjunctus, Monash University, Melbourne Written for the concert From the Last Century, performed on Oct 10, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In the course of over three decades since the death of Karl Amadeus Hartmann in 1963, the canons of the musical history of…
Read MoreCoro di morti (1941)
Coro di morti (1941) By Bernard Jacobson Written for the concert From the Last Century, performed on Oct 10, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Completed in 1941, Coro di morti (Chorus of the Dead)stands with Noche oscura—a St. John of the Cross setting written ten years later—as perhaps Petrassi’s (b.1904) finest achievement…
Read MoreAfter Carmina Burana
After Carmina Burana By Leon Botstein Written for the concert After Carmina Burana: an Historical Perspective, performed on May 16, 2001 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Tonight we bring our year-long series examining the relationship between music and memory to an end with perhaps the most difficult and emotionally fraught example. We present…
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