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Russian-born American conductor, composer and musician (1874–1951)
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2024-03-04 15:36:37
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part II, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: March 4, 2024. Luigi Dallapiccola, Part II. Last week, we ended the story of the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola at the beginning of WWII. Mussolini’s fascist state had passed race laws that restricted the civil rights of the Italian Jews, affecting Dallapiccola directly, as his wife was one of them. Later laws would strip the Jews of their assets and send them into internal exile. Italy was no Germany, and these laws weren’t enforced by the Mussolini fascists as they were by the Nazis: no Italian Jews were killed by the regime just because they were Jews (many political opponents of Mussolini were imprisoned and executed, and some of them were Jewish). That state of affairs abruptly changed in 1943 when the Italian army surrendered to the Allies, and in response, the Nazis occupied all of the northern part of Italy. During those years, Dallapiccola […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-02 18:32:40
Tanglewood 2024 Looks Good
This summer’s two months at Tanglewood offer a more varied and richer schedule than ever, on the fully equipped campus in Lenox that has abundances for every taste. The Boston Symphony shares the Shed and other halls with several other orchestras; recitals and chamber music abound, beginning with a String Quartet Marathon of three concerts on June 30th. The calendar is HERE. Tickets go on sale March 19th . The listing that I received has some gaps (programs not yet determined), but Beethoven’s orchestral music appears on no fewer than six dates (July 5 and 21, August 4, 18, 24, and 25), including four symphonies (of course the 9th) and three concerti. Stravinsky appears on four dates (July 12 and 15, August 9 and 10). There’s an entire evening of Richard Strauss (July 7). Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony will be performed twice, by the TMC Orchestra on July 8 with Nelsons, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-24 13:25:23
Music Remembers Wartime Trauma
Yet it is not only we who remember music. Music also remembers us. For myriad reasons, Jeremy Eichler’s “Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and The Music of Remembrance” makes for an unusually important and continuously compelling read. His dual passions as music critic and cultural historian fuse to offer extraordinary ways of reconsidering and hearing four of the 20th century’s most significant musical works: Eichler places these works Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar), and Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem and their composers within a richly detailed historical and cultural context. “Witness to history and a carrier of memory … they stood at four different windows overlooking the same catastrophe. Each responded to the rupture through intensely charged memorials in sound.” Even those who feel conversant with the biographies of these composers will learn much from the extravagance of historical detail […]
2022-10-14 15:37:00
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Andris Nelsons, conductor; Jennifer Koh, violin. October 7, 2022.
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA. Balcony Center (Seat E15, $60.50).ProgramStarling Variations (2022) by Elizabeth Ogonek (b. 1989).Serenade (after Plato's Symposium), for violin and orchestra (1954) by Bernstein (1918-1990).Chichester Psalms (1965) by Bernstein.Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 20, The First of May (1929) by Shostakovich (1906-1975).ArtistsTanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductor.Linus Schafer-Goulthorpe, boy soprano.Solo Quartet: Natalia Hubner, soprano; Lena Costello, alto; Stephen Chrzan, tenor; Matthew Christopher, bass.We were visiting the area for a few days, and had time to take in this concert. Except for a couple of Princeton Chamber Concerts, this would be the first "full scale" concert we went to since our European trip (last concert on that trip was Andrea Chenier at Deutsche Oper Berlin).Ogonek came on stage before her piece was performed to talk about her (planned) three sets of variations which she calls a triptych. The first set is titled Cloudline based on "looking up." Today's […]
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