Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music

Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music 03/12/1997 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music 1929-42 – Leon Botstein Rissolty Rossolty (1939) – Judith Tick, Author, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for American Music

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The Soul of Poland in Modern Times

The Soul of Poland in Modern Times 01/24/1997 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes The Soul of Poland in Modern Times: The Music of Karol Szymanowski – Leon Botstein Slopiewnie (1928) – Thos. Callen Symphony No. 4 (“Symphony Concertante”) (1932) – Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College Symphony No. 2 (1910)…

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The Composer’s Voice

The Composer’s Voice 10/06/1996 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Inventing an American Music – Nicholas E. Tawa The Composer’s Voice: Influence and Originality in Hartmann and Mahler – Leon Botstein Symphony No. 1 (1948), Symphony No. 6 (1953) – Robert Maxham, Executive Director, Ames International Orchestra Festival Das klagende…

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Faith: Meditation and Mysticism

Faith: Meditation and Mysticism 04/28/1996 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Faith: Meditation and Mysticism in Turn-of-the-Century France – Leon Botstein Le Martyre de Saint Sebastian (1911) – David Grayson, University of Minnesota Resurrection: Symphonic Prelude after Tolstoy, Op. 4 (1903) – Brian Hart, Indiana University

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America’s Musical Pioneer

America’s Musical Pioneer 03/03/1996 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes J. S. Bach / Leopold Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BMV 565 (1952) – Walter Frisch, Columbia University America’s Musical Pioneer: Homage to Leopold Stokowski – Leon Botstein Symphony No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 63 (1911) –…

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Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain 10/01/1995 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 23 (1975) – Laurel E. Fay Symphony No. 21 in F-sharp minor, Op. 51 (1940) – Maya Pritsker Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141 (1971) – Elizabeth Wilson

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Between War and Peace

Between War and Peace 04/30/1995 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes The Airborne Symphony (1943-46) – Eric a. Gordon, author, Mark the Music; The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein Between War and Peace: The End of the Second World War – Leon Botstein Symphony No.3, “Liturgique” (1945-46) – Richard…

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Unjust Obscurity? (II)

Unjust Obscurity? (II) 03/10/1995 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Unjust Obscurity? – Leon Botstein Psalm 114, “When Israel Out of Egypt Came,” for Double Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 51 – Felix Mendelssohn Concerto (Quasi una fantasia) for Violin and Orchestra in B-flat major, Op. 21 – Chris Walton, Head…

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Bruckner and 20th Century Politics

Bruckner and 20th Century Politics 01/13/1995 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Bruckner and 20th –Century Politics – Leon Botstein Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major [Schalk edition] (1894) – Leon Botstein Bruckner and Politics – Paul Hawkshaw, Yale School of Music

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Paris in the 1860s

Paris in the 1860s 09/25/1994 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Djamileh (1871) – Lesley A. Wright, University of Hawaii Paris in the 1860s The Origins of Impressionism – Leon Botstein More on Paris in the 1860s – Matthew Truesdell, University of California Berkeley La Vie Parisienne: Excerpts (1866) –…

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