Concerts

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

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) –…

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

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…

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…

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

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) –…

Common Ground 04/15/1994 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Common Ground: African-American & Jewish-American Composers, 1930-1955 – Leon Botstein “Night Creature” for Jazz Band and Orchestra (1956) – Duke Ellington “I Got Rhythm” Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1934) – Richard E. Rodda Spirituals for String Choir and Orchestra (1941)…

Focus on a Masterwork: Brahms’s Fourth Symphony 04/30/1993 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Botstein Focus on a Masterwork, Brahms’s Fourth Symphony – Leon Botstein Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (1885) – Walter Frisch, Columbia University Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (1909; rev. 1949) – Richard…

Surrealism and Music? The Musical World Around René Magritte 11/13/1992 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Concert Notes Surrealism and Music?: The Musical World Around René Magritte – Leon Botstein Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra – Mark Swed Les Bandar-Log – Leon Botstein Suite from Les Biches – Leon Botstein Collage…