Word: schubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viennese unveiled three of the four operas, plus orchestral evenings of Schubert symphonies and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. To be added to the repertory this week were Ariadne and a Beethoven-Wagner orchestral program. Next week, after a 17-day run in Washington, the company will go to New York, where it will repeat the Ninth and the Beethoven-Wagner program and present a concert version of Fidelio...
...himself in opposition to the Austro-German musical tradition that extends from Bach through Mahler. To his composition students he held up Beethoven's sonatas as the supreme models of craftsmanship. The Columbia LPs conclude with a 1932 recording of him conducting his own orchestration of some Schubert dances-a gesture of homage that was not unusual for him. What passed for classicism in his own day, he wrote in one of the letters quoted by the Moldenhauers, ''emulates the style without knowing its meaning . . . whereas I (and Schoenberg and Berg) endeavor to fulfill this meaning...
...longtime resident of the Wiltshire countryside, he has developed slowly, outside the avenues of musical fashion, building an angular, passionate and original style that freely jumbles, say, madrigals, blues, jagged contemporary dissonances and echoes of Schubert...
Ariel Chamber ensemble--works of Schubert, Falla, and Schonberg; Louis Bagger, harpsichord; Susan Larson, Soprano and sprechstimme; Sanders Theater...
...England Conservatory Scholarship Chamber Quartet--works of Mozart, Kodaly, and Schubert; Sachiko Mori, violin; Peter Slowik, viola; Koji Yanagulda, cello; and Carol Rankin, plano; Jordan Hall...