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American oboist; composer and arranger; teacher of several successful oboists
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2024-03-15 17:51:00
New Jersey Symphony. Xian Zhang, conductor; Tom Borrow, piano. March 14, 2024.
NJPAC, Newark, NJ. Orchestra (Seat H101, $46).At the conclusion of the concert. Notice on the far right the regular principal bass.ProgramNightVision (2001, rev. 2002) by Ludwig (b. 1974).Piano Concerto No. 24 (1786) in C Minor, K. 491 by Mozart (1756-1791).Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 by Tchaikovsky.It was a nice spring day. The cherry blossoms are in Bloom.The Program Notes contains much praise for the two "classical" pieces for this after (concert start 1:30 pm). And its description of NightVision is quite interesting also. My first thoughts were the concert had the potential of being "great," but would the NJ Symphony be able to deliver?Ludwig's name is David Serkin Ludwig. He is Peter Serkin's nephew, and Rudolf Serkin's grandson. So quite a musical heritage. He is no slouch either, as he is Dean of Music at Julliard. (The others Deans head up dance and drama.) This 7-minute piece […]
2024-02-19 04:16:00
Florence Price: Symphony 4 - William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (streaming review)
by Bill Heck Florence Price: Symphony 4; William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra. DG CC 72970 A few weeks ago, I was first exposed to the music of William Dawson (1899 - 1990) in the form of a concert featuring the Negro Folk Symphony. What an introduction that was! This is the kind of work that, as the saying goes, brings down the house, and it certainly did that evening. Naturally I went looking for a recording of the piece only to find that it was part of a recent DG release, and thus an obvious choice for a review here. Nice coincidence, eh? This release is the final one of a series of recordings produced by DG featuring orchestral music of Florence Price played by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Indeed, one of the CDs in this series (Symphonies 1 & 3) was already […]
2024-02-13 23:03:00
After the question arose elsewhere, I asked San Francisco Symphony about Seiji Ozawa's appearances with SFS after he stepped down as music director. Here's the answer:After the 1976-77 season, Ozawa conducted:January 11-14, 1978 – Tchaikovsky Swan LakeJanuary 18-21, 1978 – Brahms Symphony No. 3 & Roger Sessions When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'dNovember 9, 1986 – Pension Fund Concert – Ravel’s La Valse, Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, and Kei Anjo’s Who-ei for Erh-hu and OrchestraFebruary 23, 1993 – Pension Fund Concert – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and Bernstein’s The Age of AnxietyOctober 29, 2001 – Pension Fund Concert – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Ozawa also came to Davies Symphony Hall with the BSO twice (March 12, 1981 and February 13, 1996) and Saito Kinen Orchestra once (January 7, 2001).
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-06 21:26:14
“No Choice but Love: Songs of the LGBTQ+ Community”
[…] personal texts by different authors, including Harvey Milk, about being gay in a family, in American politics, and so on. The album closes with a separate song by Moore using an evocative poem (which Ferring sent him) by the Jamaican-American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy. In between come items by composers from a few generations back—Ethel Smyth, Falla, Poulenc, Britten—and more recent ones by Jennifer Higdon (lines from Walt Whitman’s famous “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”), Ricky Ian Gordon (to texts by Langston Hughes), and Willie Alexander III (to verses by James Agee that Samuel Barber and Morten Lauridsen have also set). Gordon’s two songs, from his 1993 cycle Genius Child are absolute keepers, and I expect we’ll be hearing them in other recitals. Both set Hughes’s poems captivatingly, the second to a dance-like tune, the first to music that (intentionally, I suspect) recalls to the gorgeous “Adonai ro-i” tune […]
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