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American composer (1825-1898)
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2021-11-23 02:54:54
The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall: Scott Wheeler, Julia Perry and George Frederick Bristow
Big name soloists, a symphonic work plucked from obscurity and a premiere. It’s an oft-used – and winning – programming formula used by The Orchestra Now. The ensemble’s performance at Carnegie Hall on November 18, 2021 was the latest in this successful framework. TŌN is a graduate program at Bard College founded in 2015 by […]
2021-10-19 23:59:06
Bard.edu: Bard’s Acclaimed Production of Ernest Chausson’s Opera, King Arthur, Returns for Week-Long Encore Streaming on World Opera Day (Oct 25) 9:00 AM
[…] “Resurrection (Oct. 23-24), performed by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra with members of The Orchestra Now (TON), soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Chamber Singers, and the Bard Festival Chorale, with choral director James Bagwell. On November 23 and 24, The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, will be joined by violinist Gil Shaham and mezzo-soprano Briana Hunter in a program featuring a world premiere by Scott Wheeler, Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater, and George Frederick Bristow’s rarely performed Symphony No.4, Arcadian. On December 11 and 12, TON will be joined by soloists from Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, the Bard Festival Chorale and Bard College Chamber Singers for performances of Handel’s Messiah. On November 6, the Bard Conservatory Vocal Arts Program will present Songs from the Real World: The French Cabaret, with versatile, internationally heralded mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and members of Bard’s Vocal Arts Program. The program will explore the beginnings of the French cabaret […]
2016-03-02 19:08:11
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection , Saturday, March 5th, 5-6 pm… Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Mödlinger Dances , excerpts (1819) Beethoven: Music for a Knightly Ballet (1791) Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 (1800) Beethoven, 1803 (Christian Horneman) It’s a composer we’ve barely touched on in Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, and with good reason. Beethoven isn’t a discovery to us (although, thankfully, people new to classical music discover him all the time). But he most definitely was new to 19th-century America, especially to those American composers we’ve looked at who blazed the trail back to the old country, to Germany, for music studies. In the last half-dozen or so Discoveries we’ve been looking at American composers, with the most recent shows visiting the earliest stirrings of orchestral music in the United States with George Frederick Bristow and John Knowles Paine . We’ve delved into this time before […]
2016-02-03 12:43:32
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection , Saturday, February 6th, 5-6 pm… John Knowles Paine If it’s a small world, then the 19th-century world of American classical music was tiny. Last month we looked at George Frederick Bristow of New York, the first native-born composer to get a hearing from that new American institution, the symphony orchestra. Now we meet John Knowles Paine—for the second time; we heard his music on another Discoveries eight years ago. He was born in Portland, Maine in 1839. A few years younger than Bristow, he would become the first American composer to have real success in orchestral music. He settled in Boston, after lessons in his hometown and further studies in Germany. American composers would begin to find their way to Germany for training, then return. Not only was Germany renowned for its musical opportunities, but many accomplished German musicians had been immigrating […]
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