2008-2009

Composing a Nation: Israel’s Musical Patriarchs 05/31/2009 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center The names of those who built the nation of Israel are legendary, but those who forged its cultural voice played a vital role in expressing the identity of the new country. Explore the work of Israel’s musical patriarchs. Thrill…

Revisiting William Grant Still 03/22/2009 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Operas, symphonies, concerti, chamber music, art songs, film scores, popular music—William Grant. Still embraced all of America’s music, and ranks among the greatest American composers. Rivaled only by Leonard Bernstein in the variety of his output, Still trained and worked with…

Persecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience 02/20/2009 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center A courageous composer who publicly reviled Mussolini– and openly used music to oppose Italian fascism Two of Dallapiccola’s most affecting works stand as monumental moral testaments. Night Flight was written in response to the rise of fascism, and is…

Music of the Other Germany 01/25/2009 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center A program that could only be brought to you by the American Symphony Orchestra. Music of postwar East Germany, created in the then newly established German Democratic Republic. Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Udo Zimmerman, Siegfried Matthus—these are composers…

Against the Avant-Garde: Romanticisms of the 1920s 12/07/2008 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center In Europe in the 1920s, music experienced the revolution of the avant-garde. Composers turned away from Romanticism… But these three great composers struggled to prove that Romantic music was still relevant and thriving as a style of truly…