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...bespectacled, tweedy Lowell Liebermann seemed staggered by the sight and sound of his first standing ovation, Texas-style. Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony had just premiered his Second Symphony, and the first-nighters earlier this month jumped to their feet and shouted with understandable delight. Now brazen and glittering, now radiantly visionary, the Liebermann Second, a resplendent choral symphony based on the poetry of Walt Whitman, is the work of a composer unafraid of grand gestures and openhearted lyricism. Says conductor Litton, who picked Liebermann, 39, as the orchestra's composer-in-residence: "Lowell is proving that new classical...
...former prodigy from New York City who produced his Op. 1, a piano sonata, at 15, Liebermann is one of the New Tonalists, a group of composers who have turned their back on the hard-edged, complicated avant-garde sounds that dominated the American new-music scene after World War II. Unlike such devotees of dissonance as Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter, they happily embrace traditional tonality, the harmonic language of most Western music, from Bach to rock. "I don't believe in the cliche that art has to reflect its times--that since we're living in a horrible...
...stopped paying attention to new classical music after Britten and Shostakovich died, it's time to tune in again. The famous flutist has put his weight behind one of America's most gifted "new tonalist" composers, with electrifying results. Liebermann's three concertos are custom-made for listeners who find 12-tone music ugly and minimalism simple-minded. The harmonies are savory, the scoring luminous--and, yes, you can hum the tunes...
...LOWELL LIEBERMANN, 35; Manhattan, Composer "Haunted" as a teen by Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Liebermann knew he had to set the novel to music one day. Two decades and three Juilliard degrees later, he will see his first opera (of the same title), for which he adapted the text from the 1891 original, premiere next week at the Opera de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. (Princess Caroline, president of the Monaco Spring Arts Festival, encouraged Liebermann's work, and the piece is dedicated to her.) The composer does sense an affinity, in part, with Wilde's portrait...
...Conservatory. 536-6340 or 536-3063. The Boston Conservatory Theater is lacated at 31 Hemenway Street, Boston. Seully Hall is located at 8 The Fenway, Boston. The First and Second Church is located at 66 Marlborough St., Boston. Patricia McCarty, viola, and Martin Amlin, piano, perform works by Carter, Liebermann, George Wilson and Boston compsoers Martin Amlin and Karen Campbell. Thursday, April 20, Boston Conservatory Theatre Concert Room, 8 p.m. Free...