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Broadway WorldIn 1938, at the age of 33, Austrian composer Eric Zeisl and his wife fled the Nazi invasion of his home in Vienna for a new life in the United States. When he ...
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-08-07 16:56:19
Leonard Slatkin has posted a list of major works by US composers that were cheered on debut and subsequently left to grow mould. Readers are swelling Leonard’s ten with lost masterpieces of their own. I would add any symphony by Benjamin Lees, the cello concerto of Victor Herbert, Ray Still’s first symphony, Eric Zeisl’s piano concerto and pretty much anything by Conlon Nancarrow. Your list? photo: Betty Freeman/Lebrecht Music&Arts
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-07-15 05:38:38
Emerson + Fleming Evoke Late Vienna
[…] the fast or slow tempo. The audience expressed wild approval with extended applause and cheers. And just when it seemed as if the applause was about to end, after several curtain calls, the soprano stepped back onto the stage to encourage more applause and then, as the quartet followed her, announced a “little encore.” This was the one remaining work on the joint CD containing the Berg and Wellesz compositions: a small piece by Erich Zeisl (1905-1959). The moving setting of the chorale text Komm, süsser Tod (“Come, sweet death”) in a late romantic style cast a fine benison on the evening. Steven Ledbetter is a free-lance writer and lecturer on music. He got his BA from Pomona College and PhD from NYU in Musicology. He taught at Dartmouth College in the 1970s, then became program annotator at the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1997. The post Emerson + […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-06-27 14:03:38
Fab Foursome +1 To Highlight Second Tanglewood Week
[…] project originate with Fleming or the quartet? Fleming invited us to appear with her at the final concert of her “Perspectives” series at Carnegie Hall. in May 2013. We performed a wide variety of repertoire centered on the theme of Vienna at the turn of—and from the first few decades of—the 20th century. The fifth Wellesz sonnet setting was featured on the program, in which we also performed vocal works by Karl Weigl and Eric Zeisl, as well as Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklaerte Nacht. We like much of the repertoire that adds singers to a string quartet. Will there be more from the Emerson? How about the Schoenberg No. 2? Is that too high for Fleming? Fleming has not chosen to sing the Schoenberg Second Quartet, but we performed it last September at the Berlin Festival with Barbara Hannigan, with whom we’ll perform it again in Germany this coming November. […]
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