John Vincent News
American composer, conductor and music educator (1902-1977)
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- United States of America
- composer, conductor
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2024-03-29
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] front hallway. In the one and only time I ever spoke to the great man, I cautiously went up to him and said, “M. Munch, when will the Boston Symphony perform Chausson’s Symphony in B-flat Major?” Barely looking away from what occupied him at the moment, he replied, “Yes, sometime soon, perhaps next year — it is a beautiful piece of music, isn’t it?” [The BSO has played the Chausson Symphony 46 times, beginning under Vincent d’Indy in 1905. This weekend’s performances are the first since 1993.] I wrote more on Chausson 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 (1978) and fifth (1987) editions of Harmony by his teacher Walter Piston. The post […]
2024-01-22 11:00:00
Saints Vincent and Anastasius. January 22, 2024 A.D. Recently, we headed out to an evening of music
2023-11-03 11:22:00
BPO/Petrenko - Mozart, Berg, and Brahms, 1 November 2023
[…] that fulfilled; yet, without sounding ‘wrong’, that was afar from the abiding impression in a reading that again seemed to owe much to Mendelssohn (more, interestingly, than Schumann). Exhaustion at the end of the development, a familiar device of Mendelssohn, could in this respect be heard in new light, preparing the way for a more turbulent recapitulation and, finally, true, desperate fury in the coda, enhanced considerably by the Berlin strings and that timpani roll (Vincent Vogel). An uneasy truce was called in the second movement, stentorian opening horn call and softer pizzicato response from the entire string section mediated by woodwind. The reconciliation effected was always fragile, sometimes even fragmenting, yet conceptually and emotionally necessary. The depth of string consolation in the face of attacks upon it was deeply moving, as if the spirit of a single viola had been assumed by that section as a whole, whilst maintaining […]
2023-10-26 14:00:37
[…] L’Apprenti Sorcier, Emmanuel Chabrier’s España, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre – but many of the other composers represented here are forgotten now.Stylistically they are a highly varied bunch: there are still traces of Berlioz in Ernest Guiraud’s Ouverture d’Arteveld from 1874, for instance, while Boulanger’s D’un Matin de Printemps of 1918 brings together Debussy and early Stravinsky. There’s Debussy too in Mel Bonis’s rapturous Le Rêve de Cléopatre, but it’s Wagner who casts a shadow over Vincent d’Indy’s Istar, Henri Duparc’s beautiful Aux Étoiles, Augusta Holmès’s La Nuit et l’Amour and Ernest Chausson’s Arthurian Viviane. Meanwhile, Alfred Bruneau’s La Belle au Bois Dormant owes a clear debt to his teacher, Massenet.
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