Lukas Foss News
American composer
- piano
- contemporary classical music, opera
- United States of America
- conductor, classical composer, pianist, university teacher
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2024-03-29
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] sandwich and skipping a Friday morning class to get in line for 90-cent rush seats (second balcony center). In 1957 I heard the Boston premiere of Stravinsky’s Agon, which used up so much rehearsal time that Bruckner’s Seventh, which rounded out the program, suffered in accuracy. I wonder if Munch really loved Bruckner, in any case. In the summer of 1959 I was a junior student at the Berkshire Music Center studying composition with Lukas Foss [more HERE]. Leonard Bernstein normally administered the conducting program at Tanglewood, but he was somewhere else that summer, and Eleazar de Carvalho had taken charge. A handful of “active conductors” got extensive directing time with the BMC orchestra; Charles Dutoit was one of these, as were Harold Farberman of the BSO’s percussion section (30 years later I had very good lessons from him at the Conductors Institute in South Carolina), and a very able […]
2023-12-25 02:05:00
[…] couple of moments of imprecision in the piano playing that made me think that maybe the pianists hadn't played the work a lot.This is...probably the case. I had to look it up on line - the booklet for the big Stravinsky Edition set isn't in the box - but Stravinsky had a classy lineup of pianists for the recording, none of whom made their living primarily by playing the piano: Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Lukas Foss, and Roger Sessions.
2023-08-16 15:14:39
Lukas Foss and Emilio de' Cavalieri, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: August 14, 2023. Lukas Foss and Emilio de' Cavalieri. The richness and diversity of classical music is almost infinite. Of course, we’re not talking about the false, woke diversity of race and gender. We mean the diversity of sound, organized by composers of different eras into amazing combinations that we call “music,” combinations of the aural entities so different that composers of yesteryears would not even recognize the work of their followers as belonging to the same art (if they would consider it art at all). We, on the other hand, are lucky to have access to this enormous body of work and can enjoy music composed in the 15th century as much as music from half a millennium later. We have two composers this week, one born in the first half of the 20th century, and another – in the middle of the 15th. Lukas Foss […]
2023-08-16 14:02:33
Lukas Foss - Baroque Variations for OrchestraBuffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)Lukas Foss (Conductor)
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