Word: conductors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tchalkovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy as orchestrated by Liszt, and the Brahms Violin Concerto; Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang, violin. The St. Lowell-in-the-Fields Orchestra, Gerald Moshell, conductor; Lowell House Dining Hall; two performances...
Bach's Mass in B-Minor; Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, F. John Adams, conductor, Sanders...
This version of The Siege of Corinth, pieced together by conductor Thomas Schippers from 35 varying scores of the opera and 2800 pages of original manuscript, is seamless and vibrant, and adds a rare tragic work by Rossini to the stock of his popular comic operas. Schippers is apparently as good at sewing musical segments together as Rossini, who constantly borrowed from old operas to write new ones, and who was so cavalier about detail that if a page of his manuscript fell to the floor while he was composing, he'd write a new one from memory, being...
Actually, by the time the Vienna-bred Korngold landed in Hollywood in 1934, he had behind him an astounding career as a musical Wunderkind in Europe. When he was a teenager, his works were performed by Pianist Artur Schnabel and Conductor Bruno Walter. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his third opera, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), was staged at New York's Metropolitan Opera. In the leading role of Marietta was Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her Met debut. The American public took to Jeritza but not to Korngold, and after a few years it forgot...
...Conductor disappears down the aisle, Distressing lack of concern for this modern marvel of a competitor...