Concerts
Music 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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BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL – Prokofiev & His World 10/24/2008 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…
Read MoreR. Strauss: Four Last Songs
R. Strauss: Four Last Songs 09/21/2008 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Featured soloist Twyla Robinson, soprano One of the great showpieces for the soprano voice, Richard Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), included personal references to his own life. What was Strauss trying to express in this his final work? What…
Read MoreTower, Beethoven, Strauss-09/20/08
Tower, Beethoven, Strauss-09/20/08 09/20/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the three-time Grammy Award winning composer and Bard Professor of Music Joan Tower in a program of her work, Strike Zones, alongside Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Four Last…
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Tower, Beethoven, Strauss 09/19/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the three-time Grammy Award winning composer and Bard Professor of Music Joan Tower in a program of her work, Strike Zones, alongside Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Four Last…
Read MoreSpatial Explorations
Spatial Explorations 06/01/2008 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Spatial Explorations – Leon Botstein Sfaerernes musik (Music of the Spheres) (1918) – Peter Laki Apparitions (1958-59) – Paul Griffiths Atmosphères (1961) – Paul Griffiths Sinfonia di Sfere (1975) – Peter Laki Cassiopeia (1971) – Frank J. Oteri
Read MoreSibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor 04/27/2008 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Erica Kiesewetter, Violin It begins as if emerging from a misty fjord. What makes Jean Sibelius’s music so unmistakably Scandinavian? Why did he completely rewrite this Concerto? Why has it held its place on the concert stage for more than…
Read MoreA New Italian Renaissance
A New Italian Renaissance 04/18/2008 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes A New Italian Renaissance – Leon Botstein Italia, Rhapsody for Orchestra, Op. 11 (1909) – Adrian Corleonis, Fanfare Magazine Pause del Silenzio I (1917) – Harvey Sachs, writer, journalist, and music historian Symphony No. 2 in F, Op. 81…
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