Word: promenadeã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night was served with Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Originally written for piano, the ten-piece suite was orchestrated by French Impressionist composer Ravel for former music director of the Boston Symphony Serge Koussevitzky. The opening “Promenade?? theme in B-flat recurs frequently throughout the piece, though with different tonal shadings. Levine directed the orchestra through a broad and majestic “Promenade,” which contrasted sharply with the subsequent, darker movement depicting a crooked-legged gnome scurrying about. The trumpet solos were...
...open museum”—with indoor and outdoor sites throughout downtown Athens—showcased both newly commissioned works meant to reflect the city’s famed archaeological sites and also previously conceived pieces by world-renowned contemporary artists. “The Grand Promenade?? displayed a great variety of media, as well as a fascinating representation of artists with strikingly different national backgrounds and intent. As the exhibition opened two days after the beginning of the war in Lebanon, the photographic installation by Fouad Elkoury of the Israeli invasion in 1983 became painfully...
...that hasn’t already been done? Not much, but Kissin played the work like he owned it. Particularly effective was his powerful left hand in the “Bydlo (Oxen)” movement, as well as the simple lyricism of the opening “Promenade?? theme and later in the “Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua” (“With the Dead in a Dead Language”). The only real disappointment came with “Il Vecchio Castello” (“The Old Castle?...
| 1 |