Concert Notes
The Breakup of the Soviet Union: A Musical Mirror
The Breakup of the Soviet Union: A Musical Mirror 02/18/1994 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Alfred Schnittke & Sofia Gubaidulina – Maya Pritsker The Breakup of the Soviet Union: A Musical Mirror – Leon Botstein
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Alfred Schnittke & Sofia Gubaidulina By Maya Pritsker Written for the concert The Breakup of the Soviet Union: A Musical Mirror performed on Feb 18, 1994 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. American concert-goers could hardly imagine how tremendously important the music of Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina, composers writing in today’s complicated post-modern…
Read MoreDer Rosenkavalier: The Silent Film
Der Rosenkavalier: The Silent Film 12/19/1993 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Der Rosenkavalier: The Silent Film – Leon Botstein Between Theater and Cinema: Silent Film Accompaniment in the 1920s – John Pruitt, Bard College
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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