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2023-10-05 23:44:00
The Alexander String Quartet almost always has a Saturday morning series at Herbst, accompanied by talks by composer/musicologist Robert Greenberg. This year's series is called Music as a Mirror of Our World: The String Quartet from 1905 to 1946. The title is....partially correct. It's a mirror of our world if you think only white men compose string quartets.Here's the programming for the full series. For each concert, I've suggested an alternative quartet they might have programmed.Program 1: Austria. Quartets by Schoenberg and Webern. Add Johanna Beyer String Quartet 1 or 2.Program 2: Russia. Quartets by Stravinsky and Prokofiev. No obvious pick here, so let's go for the unknown-to-me Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova, who wrote two strings quartets.Program 3: Czechoslovakia. Quartets by Haas and Janacek. Vítězslava Kaprálová wrote eight string quartets; take your pick.Program 4: United States. Quartets by Barber and Piston. Add Ruth Crawford Seeger's sole quartet.Program 5: Austria. Quartets by Zemlinsky and Korngold. The loveliest girl in […]
2023-09-14 02:24:00
California Symphony: Copland - American Traditions
[…] shaped the American story, with music by Aaron Copland, Wynton Marsalis, and more. Included with ticket purchase is a free 30-minute pre-concert talk, starting one hour before each show. WHEN: Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.WHERE: Hofmann Theatre at the Lesher Center for the Arts1601 Civic Drive, Walnut CreekCONCERT:COPLAND—AMERICAN TRADITIONS (23-24 Season Opener)7:30pm, Saturday, Sept. 304:00pm, Sunday, Oct. 1Donato Cabrera, conductorCalifornia SymphonyKelly Hall-Tompkins, violinPROGRAM:Juan Pablo Contreras—MeChicano Wynton Marsalis—Violin Concerto in D Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violinRuth Crawford Seeger—Rissolty RossoltyAaron Copland— Appalachian Spring SuiteTICKETS: Subscriptions for three, four, or five concerts start at $99 and are available now.Single tickets are $45-90 and $20 (for students 25 and under with valid Student ID). To purchase tickets, visit CaliforniaSymphony.org or call the Lesher Center Ticket Office at (925) 943-7469 (open Wed – Sun, noon to 6pm).
2022-01-12 01:48:44
Juilliard Announces Details of Weeklong Focus Festival, January 23-28 [Works of Scott Joplin, William Grant Still, Mary Lou Williams James P. Johnson and Duke Ellington]
[…] of in-person work for Juilliard’s spring semester. All other dates remain the same. Reserved tickets to all Focus 2022 events are free, and events will be livestreamed through Juilliard LIVE on the school’s website. *** Focus 2022 opens with Sachs leading the New Juilliard Ensemble in a program of rags by Joplin in contemporaneous theater orchestra versions; two of Ives’ Ragtime Dances; Varèse’s Octandre; Cowell’s Sinfonietta; and Crawford Seeger’s Three Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg (with soprano Britt Hewitt as soloist). Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting,” completes the program on January 23 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The January 26, the program includes Persichetti’s Sonatine for Organ Pedals Alone; Wolpe’s Two Pieces for Piano; Carter’s Sonata for Cello and Piano; William Grant Still’s Incantation and Dance for oboe and piano; Menotti’s “Monica’s Waltz” from The Medium; […]
2021-10-22 18:06:00
Michael Tilson Thomas Photo by Brandon Patoc, courtesy of San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas will conduct his scheduled programs at the NY Philharmonic in early November. From their press release: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS RETURNS TO CONDUCT THENEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ___________________ GIL SHAHAM To Perform BERG Violin Concerto Program Also To Include Crawford Seeger Andante for Strings BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica Alice Tully Hall, November 4, 5, and 7 ___________________ Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas leads the New York Philharmonic in works by Crawford Seeger, Berg, and Beethoven, November 4, 5, and 7, 2021, at Alice Tully Hall. These performances mark Tilson Thomas’s first conducting appearances since undergoing brain surgery in July 2021. Tilson Thomas, who served as Music Director of the Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts from 1973 to 1977, last conducted the Orchestra in 2011. He said: “Through these past difficult months, […]
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