Word: monumentum
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Though Moses is still sharp-tongued and healthy at age 85, his epitaph, as Author Robert Caro points out, might well be the same as that of 17th century British Architect Christopher Wren: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice (If you would see his monument, look around...
...size of Layton's orchestra kept him from playing any Romantic works; the other half of Friday's brief program included works by Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ives. In its New England premiere, Stravinsky's Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa received a bludgeoning the Bach Society had not intended to give it; someone in the orchestra arrived after the concert had begun. Naturally the counterpoint had strange empty spots. Monumentum, composed in 1960 on Gesualdo's four-hundredth birthday, is essentially an alteration for chamber music of three of Gesualdo's madrigals. Even if one makes allowances for what...
Some of Stravinsky's recent works, such as his seven-minute Gesnaldo Monumentum, which is little more than an orchestration of three madrigals by Don Carlo Gesualdo (circa 1560-1613), have suggested that nowadays the old revolutionary talks better about music (in interviews with Protege Conductor Robert Craft) than he composes. Although, in the U.S. at least, Stravinsky remains the most widely played living composer, the works that turn up most often in the concert halls are early masterpieces like Firebird and Petronchka, with their gorgeous colors, their richly varied rhythms and brilliant orchestrations...
Deft Exercise. Later in the week Stravinsky touched off some mild demonstrations, of his own. Occasion: the world premiere in Venice of his seven-minute Monumentum Pro Gesualdo di Venosa Ad CD Annum, inspired by the music of late-16th-century Madrigalist Don Carlo Gesualdo, who has long fascinated Stravinsky (Gesualdo had his wife and her lover murdered and is said to have suffocated one of his own children before relieving his tensions in song). In 1956 Stravinsky set himself the task of "recomposing" three Gesualdo madrigals for orchestra. The results added up to little more than deft exercises...
...Venice (Sept. 12-27). New works by Italian composers plus the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's 15-minute religious oratorio Gesualdo Monumentum, a work inspired by the writings of 16th century Madrigal Composer Don Carlo Gesualdo (who evidently used his music to sublimate his personal troubles; he had his wife and her lover murdered, suffocated one of his children...