Concert Notes
The 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…
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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 By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Richard Strauss’s Die agyptische Helena, performed on Jan 18, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Librettists have a strange habit of disappearing from view as individuals in their own right. For instance, everyone knows that Lorenzo Da Ponte collaborated with Mozart…
Read MoreThe Egyptian Helen (Original Version, 1928)
The Egyptian Helen (Original Version, 1928) By Bryan Gilliam, Duke University Written for the concert Richard Strauss’s Die agyptische Helena, performed on Jan 18, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. “What could be more serious than married life?,” Richard Strauss once remarked about his Sinfonia domestica (1904), “marriage is the most profound event…
Read MoreStrauss, Marriage, and The Egyptian Helen
Strauss, Marriage, and The Egyptian Helen By James Miller Written for the concert Richard Strauss’s Die agyptische Helena, performed on Jan 18, 1998 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Die ägyptische Helena, the fifth Strauss opera for which Hugo von Hofmannsthal provided the libretto, takes its basic plot from ancient attempts to explain how…
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