Concert Notes
Rinaldo (1869)
Rinaldo (1869) By John Daverio, Boston University, Contributor, The Compleat Brahms Written for the concert The Other Voice of Johannes Brahms, performed on Nov 30, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Rinaldo is among the largest of Brahms’s works for vocal and orchestral forces. Indeed, only Ein deutsches Requiem surpasses it in length…
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Triumphlied (1871) By Daniel Beller-McKenna, University of South Carolina, Contributor, The Compleat Brahms Written for the concert The Other Voice of Johannes Brahms, performed on Nov 30, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Brahms composed this “German Te Deum” in 1870-71 during the patriotic fervor of the Prussian military victory over France and…
Read MoreUptown/Downtown: American Music 1880-1930
Uptown/Downtown: American Music 1880-1930 By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Uptown/Downtown: American Music 1880-1930, performed on Oct 22, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The American Symphony Orchestra, founded by Leopold Stokowski as a way of supporting American instrumentalists and composers, is pleased to begin its thirty-fifth season by presenting a program…
Read MoreSymphony No. 3 in F major (1894)
Symphony No. 3 in F major (1894) By Steven Ledbetter Written for the concert Uptown/Downtown: American Music 1880-1930, performed on Oct 22, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. At his death, George W. Chadwick was hailed by Olin Downes in the New York Times as “the dean of American composers”; for fifty years…
Read MoreSelections from Operettas
Selections from Operettas By Steven Ledbetter Written for the concert Uptown/Downtown: American Music 1880-1930, performed on Oct 22, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Victor Herbert was born to Irish parents in Dublin. His grandfather was also a celebrated Irish artist, the multi-talented Samuel Lover, who was active as a poet, painter, novelist,…
Read MoreShowboat: A Scenario
Showboat: A Scenario By Steven Ledbetter Written for the concert Uptown/Downtown: American Music 1880-1930, performed on Oct 22, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Probably the majority of operettas and musical comedies before 1927 were based on original plots, though some (like Die Fledermaus) were adaptations of theatrical comedies. But no one had…
Read MorePiano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23 By Steven Ledbetter Written for the concert Uptown/Downtown: American Music 1880-1930, performed on Oct 22, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. There were American composers of concert music before the twentieth century, and gradually they have been making their way back in to the…
Read MoreAdmiration and Emulation: The Friendship of Brahms and Dvorák
Admiration and Emulation: The Friendship of Brahms and Dvorák 05/14/1997 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Admiration and Emulation: The Friendship of Brahms and Dvorák – Leon Botstein Symphony No. 2, Op. 73 (1877) – Reinhold Brinkmann, Harvard University Symphony No. 6, Op. 60 (1880) – Anton Dvorák Note by…
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Symphony No. 2, Op. 73 (1877) By Reinhold Brinkmann, Harvard University Written for the concert Admiration and Emulation: The Friendship of Brahms and Dvorák, performed on May 14, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The four symphonies of Brahms are to be placed in pairs, both chronologically and contextually. Regarding the mutual relationship…
Read MoreSymphony No. 6, Op. 60 (1880)
Symphony No. 6, Op. 60 (1880) By Anton Dvorák Written for the concert Admiration and Emulation: The Friendship of Brahms and Dvorák, performed on May 14, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The similarities between the Brahms Second and Dvorák Sixth are striking. Both symphonies are in the key of D major. Brahms…
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