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Foss and the pianists, 2020
[…] guest conducted a number of orchestras in the US and in Europe and incessantly promoted contemporary music. Lukas Foss’s early compositions were neo-classical and often populist, as in this Early Song from Three American Pieces, 1944 (the solo violin is by Itzhak Perlman, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra). Later he turned to serialism and improvisation: here is his Elytres for 2 flutes and chamber orchestra from that period, composed in 1964. The New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble is directed by the composer. Later Foss turned to electronic music. Here is his wonderfully whimsical take on Bach’s Partita in E for solo violin. Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. And here is the interview Lukas Foss gave to Bruce Duffie in 1987. Two brilliant pianists were also born this week, Aldo Ciccolini on August 15th of 1925 and Julius Katchen, who was born on the same […]
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