Georges Longy News
French musician
- oboe
- France
- musician, oboist
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2024-04-25
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
On a Saturday evening some 70 years ago I heard the Boston Symphony Orchestra live for the first time. Melville Smith, then director of the Longy School, had given me two tickets he couldn’t use. Charles Munch conducted. Before the intermission came Honegger’s Symphony no. 1; the program notes mentioned harmony that “trends toward C major,” which amused me and my 9th-grade classmate George Nelson — it must have meant that the symphony was “modern.” After the intermission we heard Schubert’s “Great” Symphony in C Major, a work I had never heard before, but George knew it well. “This symphony begins with a solo horn,” he said. (Actually it turned out to be two in unison.) I was deeply impressed by the experience, and especially by the slow movement, but never imagined that I would write a book about this symphony a few years later (2011). Eventually I began to go […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-31 14:11:10
“Whither Must I Wander?,” a collaboration between Longy faculty members Tyler Reece (baritone) and Wayman Chin (piano), celebrated the romantic ideal of the wanderer, interpolating Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel with songs by Charles Ives on Friday at Longy. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-18 18:35:41
Will You Be There?
[…] are the parents of this beautiful, child of diverse origins? Insofar as we claim citizenship in the family of man, the infant is ours. Like so much of what we perform for you today, such a song is the fruit of our common awareness of mortality, and of our common, precious, fragile humanity. By Anne Azéma and Joel Cohen A Short Production History This program premiered at Longy School of Music of Bard College in November 2021 in the depths of COVID [reviewed HERE]. Then, as now, students of an eponymous course taught by our Artistic Director joined the pros onstage. In the fall of 2022, this program began its touring experience, and particularly in New York City. It is expected to tour domestically during the early weeks of 2025 in the US, during our 70th Anniversary Season. [caption id="attachment_50592" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] […]
2022-01-14 21:10:16
At just 18, Judith Davidoff performed as a cello soloist with the Boston Pops. A graduate of Radcliffe College and the Longy School of Music, she was exposed to the early music group, Boston Camerata. According to the New York Times, it was members of this ensemble who helped inspire her to take up […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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