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2021-12-14 11:16:24
Walter Piston: Concerto for Orchestra Variations on a Theme of Edward Burlingame Hill, Divertimento, Clarinet Concerto Michael Nosworthy, clarinet Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor BMOP/sound CD Samuel Barber: Medea Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Medea (complete ballet), A Hand of Bridge Kristen Watson, soprano; Matthew DiBattista, tenor; Angela Gooch, soprano, David Kravitz, baritone, […]
2015-10-29 14:00:37
In 1734 the famous Italian castrato Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) made his debut in London at the opening performance of “The Opera of the Nobility,” a company formed to rival Handel’s “Royal Academy” (Gegorian date: Nov. 9). The performance takes place at the King’s Theater in the Haymarket, formerly the home of Handel’s company. In 1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni” premiered in Prague at the National theater. In 1837 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti’s opera “Roberto Devereux” premiered at the Teatro San Carlos, in Naples. In 1920 Edward Burlingame Hill’s symphonic poem “The Fall of the House of Usher” (after Poe) was premiered by the Boston Symphony with Pierre Monteux conducting. In 1950 Aaron Copland’s Quartet for Piano and Strings was premiered by the New York Quartet at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. at a Coolidge Festival concert. This work was commissioned by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague […]
2015-09-09 12:21:15
In 1825 Ludwig Van Beethoven’s String Quartet in a, Op.132 was premiered at a private performance for an audience of fourteen at the Tavern “Zum Wilden Mann” (The Wild Man) in Vienna by the Schuppanzigh Quartet. These same players would also give the first public performance in Vienna on November 6 that year. In 1872 Edward Burlingame Hill was born in Cambridge, Mass. In addition to composing, he also taught music at Harvard University, counting among his pupils Leonard Bernstein, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Walter Piston, Ross Lee Finney and Virgil Thomson. Olly Wilson Happy 78th birthday, Olly Wilson! Born on this day in 1937 in St. Louis, Mo. In 1965 Julián Carrillo died at age 90 in Mexico City, Mexico. In 1973 Frank Martin’s “Polyptyque (Six Passiontide Images for Violin and Two Small String orchestras)” was premiered in Lausanne by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra conducted by Edmond […]
2015-07-01 17:13:58
Joaquín Turina (1882-1949): Danzas fantásticas (1919) John Weinzweig (1913-2006): Divertimento No. 1 for Flute and Orchestra Edward Burlingame Hill (1872-1960): Concertino No. 1 Gary Galván, curator of the Fleisher Collection On this month’s Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection we meet the new curator, Gary Galván. He’s worked at the Collection since 2005 on research and special projects, but this year took over the reins as the seventh curator of the world’s largest lending library of orchestral performance material. Galván will discuss the composers on the program and give us an idea of some of his plans for the future of the Collection. Emphasizing the international representation of the works on the Fleisher shelves, he’s brought music from Spain, Canada (for the first time, we believe, on Discoveries), and the United States. Even though Joaquín Turina’s orchestration of his own Danzas fantásticas was performed before the […]
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