Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some winners of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's yearly concerto competition, practicing for the contest has been a nervewracking ordeal, and victory has been cause for rejoicing...
...only road to innovative programming. There are scores of neglected works by masters great and small that deserve dusting off. Instead of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, for example, why not the equally seductive but infrequently heard tone poem, The Wood Dove? Instead of Beethoven's pawky Second Piano Concerto or the overplayed Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn, why not Rimsky-Korsakov's dashing Piano Concerto or Carl Nielsen's melancholic Violin Concerto? Instead of another Brahms' First Symphony, how about Joachim Raff's spooky "Lenore" Symphony, once greatly admired in the 19th century, or Austrian Composer Franz Schmidt's brooding...
TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO; SIBELIUS: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Philips). Fiddle fireworks from Viktoria Mullova...
...like to write a quartet some day," he mused. "But it will be something simple, like Mozart." Even today, when the rich harmonies of A Foggy Day and The Man I Love have become pop classics and jazz standards, the High Gershwin of Porgy and Bess and Concerto in F finds detractors. They began sounding sour notes as early as 1925, when the New York Times critic found the concerto's "instrumentation . . . neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring." Composer Virgil Thomson wrote, "Gershwin does not even know what an opera...
...house has served as the site of several international conferences, including a meeting that established the principles later incorporated into the charter of the United Nations. It was also the inspiration for composer Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto...