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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-02 18:32:40
Tanglewood 2024 Looks Good
[…] me and said, ‘Until now, such things have been seen only in circuses.’” Koussevitzky was of course well known as a virtuoso bass player, but he was also a rival publisher, doubtless to Byelayev’s annoyance.) The TMC Festival of Contemporary Music, what some of us still call Fromm Week, July 25th-29th, offers seventeen composers, plus works by Tania León and Steven Mackey, directors, on each of six programs. There will be piano recitals by Jeremy Denk and Yuja Wang, and all manner of chamber music, and, on August 30th, even Judy Collins and friends. Lastly, once can savor a list of debuts and represented living composers HERE. Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban Berg, Debussy, and other early 20th-century composers. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton (Ph.D., 1967), he has published on many music subjects, and edited the revised fourth […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-18 16:37:18
Schumann Got It Right the First Time
I wrote earlier in these pages about Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, which before it was revised had a successful but heavily criticized premiere. The original version has now been recorded and published, and can be appraised alongside the revised version, which has been performed exclusively for 182 years. I now move on to extend my remarks after Jeremy Denk’s fine recital on December 9th. Critical opinion has never weighed in very much about the various revisions to Schumann’s major compositions for piano, and this is as regrettable as it is incomprehensible. I think especially of the Davidsbündlertänze,, op. 6; Symphonic Etudes in the form of Variations, op. 13; Kreisleriana, op. 16; and most recently the three-movement-long Phantasie, op. 17. All of these have been available in many publications for a hundred years or more. On my own shelves are the Kalmus reprint of the Breitkopf edition in seven volumes of Schumann’s “Complete […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-11 21:11:05
The first half of Jeremy Denk’s Celebrity Series concert at Jordan Hall whimsically alternated 19th-century with more contemporary women composers. The big guns emerged for the second half. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
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2023-11-17 06:45:09
The American pianist Jeremy Denk was, for many... The post Juilliard was stale. And the piano keys were always greasy first appeared on Slippedisc. The post Juilliard was stale. And the piano keys were always greasy appeared first on Slippedisc.
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