Concerts
Wilson, Shostakovich, Brahms-04/18/08
Wilson, Shostakovich, Brahms-04/18/08 04/18/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The season concludes with Richard Wilson’s The Cello Has Many Secrets, Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Brahms Symphony No. 3. Concert Notes
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Wilson, Shostakovich, Brahms 04/17/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The season concludes with Richard Wilson’s The Cello Has Many Secrets, Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Brahms Symphony No. 3. Concert Notes
Read MoreRevisiting William Grant Still
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…
Read MorePersecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience
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…
Read MoreRevueltas: La noche de los mayas
Revueltas: La noche de los mayas 02/08/2009 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Silvestre Revueltas lived his short life as his music—impulsive, eccentric and distinctly Mexican. His film score, La noche de los mayas (“The Night of the Mayas”), is described as “a workout for the orchestra”. How much did Latin American folk…
Read MoreTsontakis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Revueltas-02/07/09
Tsontakis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Revueltas-02/07/09 02/07/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Revueltas’s La Noche de los Mayas, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter,” and Claire de Lune work by Bard’s Distinguished Composer-in-Residence George Tsontakis. Concert Notes
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Tsontakis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Revueltas 02/06/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Revueltas’s La Noche de los Mayas, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter,” and Claire de Lune work by Bard’s Distinguished Composer in Residence George Tsontakis. Concert Notes
Read MoreMusic of the Other Germany
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…
Read MoreAgainst the Avant-Garde: Romanticisms of the 1920s
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…
Read MoreBARD MUSIC FESTIVAL-Prokofiev & His World-10/25/08
BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL-Prokofiev & His World-10/25/08 10/25/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, 2008 Program One Sosnoff Theater 7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs 8 pm Performance: Mira Wang, violin; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director Sergey Prokofiev…
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