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BAm BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIA 1,.) \.\-:.: t"\ \.\ t"C ".l ' ..,.. II I II ""' ~ , j r . J/1 ... .~ II ~ ~ ' J/1 .. ,JI. I. ~ \ " ' \ A;; .,!;\ ; \ · ~ v I _...... .\1 :\ ff-"';~.. - ~ , ._.. ~~ -, ...,,p v , _..,..."'\ ~ ~ ..--\ ~ ! ~ J \ I YOUR MONEY GROWS LIKE MAGIC AT THE THE DIME SAVINGS BANK OF NEW YORK ... ta.~~au•o•c MANHATTAN • DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN • BENSONHURST • FLATBUSH CONEY ISLAND • KINGS PLAZA • VALLEY STREAM • MASSAPEQUA HUNTINGTON STATION / BAM BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Opera House Friday, December 5, 1980, 8:00pm Saturday, December 6, 1980, 8:00pm Sunday, December 7,1980, 3:00pm THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIA LUKAS FOSS, Music Director Twenty-seventh Season 1980/1981 LUKAS FOSS Conductor JESSYE NORMAN Soprano Schubert/Webern Deutsche Tanze (D. 820) Berg Seven Early Songs 1. Nacht 2. Schilflied 3. Die Nachtigall 4. Traumgekront 5. Im Zimmer 6. Liebesode 7. Sommertage Jessye Norman, soprano (Intermission} Mahler Symphony No.4 in G major For Orchestra and Solo Soprano 1. Bedachtig, nicht eilen; Recht gemachlich (Haupttempo) 2. In gemachlicher Bewegung: Ohne Hast 3. Ruhevol: (poco adagio) 4. Sehr behaglich J essye Norman, soprano The Baldwin is the official piano of the Brooklyn Philharmonia This concert was made possible in part with public funds from the City of York Department of Cultural Affairs Administration, the / N~w New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment For the Arts. Cover photo of Lukas Foss by Louis Nemeth Slowly it's beginning to dawn on between business and the local people are returning to the city. people that the city just may be a sane community. Property values are on the rise. Neigh alternative to gasoline shortages, Creating affordable housing by borhoods are on the upswing. 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He composed more than six hundred songs, Austrian Alps, his life was spent in the city of this, because they do not even see where the nine symphonies, a great deal of chamber his birth. In September 1904 he met Arnold problem lies, and the result is <X>mposers who music and many works for piano and piano Schoenberg who accepted the young man as a can think only in terms of a single instrument. duet. He also wrote operas, Masses and free pupil. The musical precepts and the (Robert Schumann is a typical example.) I overtures. human example provided by Schoenberg removed this defect and am convinced that in shaped Berg's artistic personality for the next time Berg will actually become very good at Deutsche Tanze vom Oktober 1824, six years. instrumentation ... In 1935 he was commissioned to write a Arnold Schoenberg D. 820 violin concerto by the American violinist, Letter to Emil Hertzka Schubert Louis Krasner. Berg dedicated it to the (Publisher of Universal Edition) ... There is no music besides Schubert's that "memory of an angel"-Manon. This requiem Vienna, 5 January 1910 is so psychologically remarkable in the se for Manon Gropius, the 18-year old daughter In her biography of Alban Berg, Karen Mon- quence of ideas (Ideengang) and their connec of Alma Mahler (by then the wife of the ar son wrote the following: tion and in the apparent logic of the sudden chitect Walter Gropius), was also Berg's re " In 1928 (Berg) dipped back into his transitions, and how few have been able to quiem. He composed the work in six weeks at files, combined seven songs (with stamp a single individuality as he did upon one his villa in the Austrian province of Carinthia. piano) from his student days and or so various a mass of tone-pictures, and fewer He returned home in mid-November a sick chestrated them. They received their yet have written so for themselves and -for their man and died on December 24. first performance on November 6, own heart. What a diary is to others, in which Berg's most popular works today are Lyric 1928 in Vienna• ... they put down their momentary feelings etc., a Suite for String Quartet, Concerto for Violin, Schoenberg went to the first Berlin sheet of paper was to Schubert, to which he Piano and Winds and two operas: Wozzech and performance of the Seven Early Songs, confided his every mood, and his thoroughly Lulu. and cabled his congratulations to the musical soul wrote notes where others use composer. Berg replied with pleasure, words ... admitting that the songs of his youth Robert Schumann Seven Early Songs still had special meaning for him, that Letter to Friedrich Wieck Dear Herr Direktor, he associated them with Schoenberg's (Schumann's future father-in-law) ... (Alban Berg) is an extraordinarily gifted classes, and that the success of the or Heidelberg, 6 November 1829 composer. But the state he was in when he chestrated version of the songs made came to me was such that his imagination ap memories of his student days even "There is a divine spark in this Schubert." parently could not work on anything but more vivid ... ... Beethoven Lieder. Even the piano accompaniments to Though it is hard to date them precise them were song-like in style. He was absolute ly, the songs were written between the Webern scored the dances in 1931 for double ly incapable of writing an instrumental move middle of 1905 and the summer of woodwinds, two horns and strings. ment or inventing an instrumental theme. You 1908 ... 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NACHT (NIGHT) By night the Lord gently weaves Carl Hauptmann starry posies with his blessed hand, hangs them over his magic land. T':"ilight floats .above the valley's night, My heart, in these d.ays summer's bringing M•sts are hangmg, there's a whisp'ring brook. what can you say w1th all your singing Now the cov'ring veil is lifted quite: of what you deeply, deeply feel? Come and look! 0 Look! For beauty all your words doth steal. See the magic land before our gaze: and comes in silence with the view Tall as dreams the silver mountains stand, of eventide and filleth you. Crossed by silent silver paths shining From a secret land. Noble, pure the dreaming country sleeps. By the path the shadows black And high of a beech; a wisp of white smoke creeps to the dark' ning sky Where the valley is the darkest hued Countless little lights shine silently 0 my soul! Drink of Solitude! Come and see' 0 see' SCHILFLIED (SONG AMONGST THE REEDS} Nikolaus Lenau Through green secret paths I wander to the reedy pool's quiet brink, in the evening there to ponder, sweet girl, there of thee to think.