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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tangtewqpd 19 3 7-1987 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Saturday, 29 August at 8:30 The Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased to present WYNTON MARSALIS An evening ofjazz. Week 9 Wynton Marsalis at this year's awards to win in the last four consecutive years. An exclusive CBS Masterworks and Columbia Records recording artist, Wynton made musical history at the 1984 Grammy ceremonies when he became the first instrumentalist to win awards in the categories ofjazz ("Best Soloist," for "Think of One") and classical music ("Best Soloist With Orches- tra," for "Trumpet Concertos"). He won Grammys again in both categories in 1985, for "Hot House Flowers" and his Baroque classical album. In the past four years he has received a combined total of fifteen nominations in the jazz and classical fields. His latest album, During the 1986-87 season Wynton "Marsalis Standard Time, Volume I," Marsalis set the all-time record in the represents the second complete album down beat magazine Readers' Poll with of the Wynton Marsalis Quartet—Wynton his fifth consecutive "Jazz Musician of on trumpet, pianist Marcus Roberts, the Year" award, also winning "Best Trum- bassist Bob Hurst, and drummer Jeff pet" for the same years, 1982 through "Tain" Watts. 1986. This was underscored when his The second of six sons of New Orleans album "J Mood" earned him his seventh jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, Wynton grew career Grammy, at the February 1987 up in a musical environment. He played ceremonies, making him the only artist first trumpet in the New -
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MARLBORO MUSIC 60th AnniversAry reflections on MA rlboro Music 85316_Watkins.indd 1 6/24/11 12:45 PM 60th ANNIVERSARY 2011 MARLBORO MUSIC Richard Goode & Mitsuko Uchida, Artistic Directors 85316_Watkins.indd 2 6/23/11 10:24 AM 60th AnniversA ry 2011 MARLBORO MUSIC richard Goode & Mitsuko uchida, Artistic Directors 85316_Watkins.indd 3 6/23/11 9:48 AM On a VermOnt HilltOp, a Dream is BOrn Audience outside Dining Hall, 1950s. It was his dream to create a summer musical community where artists—the established and the aspiring— could come together, away from the pressures of their normal professional lives, to exchange ideas, explore iolinist Adolf Busch, who had a thriving music together, and share meals and life experiences as career in Europe as a soloist and chamber music a large musical family. Busch died the following year, Vartist, was one of the few non-Jewish musicians but Serkin, who served as Artistic Director and guiding who spoke out against Hitler. He had left his native spirit until his death in 1991, realized that dream and Germany for Switzerland in 1927, and later, with the created the standards, structure, and environment that outbreak of World War II, moved to the United States. remain his legacy. He eventually settled in Vermont where, together with his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin, his brother Herman Marlboro continues to thrive under the leadership Busch, and the great French flutist Marcel Moyse— of Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode, Co-Artistic and Moyse’s son Louis, and daughter-in-law Blanche— Directors for the last 12 years, remaining true to Busch founded the Marlboro Music School & Festival its core ideals while incorporating their fresh ideas in 1951. -
The Inventory of the Phyllis Curtin Collection #1247
The Inventory of the Phyllis Curtin Collection #1247 Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Phyllis Curtin - Box 1 Folder# Title: Photographs Folder# F3 Clothes by Worth of Paris (1900) Brooklyn Academy F3 F4 P.C. recording F4 F7 P. C. concert version Rosenkavalier Philadelphia F7 FS P.C. with Russell Stanger· FS F9 P.C. with Robert Shaw F9 FIO P.C. with Ned Rorem Fl0 F11 P.C. with Gerald Moore Fl I F12 P.C. with Andre Kostelanetz (Promenade Concerts) F12 F13 P.C. with Carlylse Floyd F13 F14 P.C. with Family (photo of Cooke photographing Phyllis) FI4 FIS P.C. with Ryan Edwards (Pianist) FIS F16 P.C. with Aaron Copland (televised from P.C. 's home - Dickinson Songs) F16 F17 P.C. with Leonard Bernstein Fl 7 F18 Concert rehearsals Fl8 FIS - Gunther Schuller Fl 8 FIS -Leontyne Price in Vienna FIS F18 -others F18 F19 P.C. with hairdresser Nina Lawson (good backstage photo) FI9 F20 P.C. with Darius Milhaud F20 F21 P.C. with Composers & Conductors F21 F21 -Eugene Ormandy F21 F21 -Benjamin Britten - Premiere War Requiem F2I F22 P.C. at White House (Fords) F22 F23 P.C. teaching (Yale) F23 F25 P.C. in Tel Aviv and U.N. F25 F26 P. C. teaching (Tanglewood) F26 F27 P. C. in Sydney, Australia - Construction of Opera House F27 F2S P.C. in Ipswich in Rehearsal (Castle Hill?) F2S F28 -P.C. in Hamburg (large photo) F2S F30 P.C. in Hamburg (Strauss I00th anniversary) F30 F31 P. C. in Munich - German TV F31 F32 P.C. -
1. 101 Strings: Panoramic Majesty of Ferde Grofe's Grand
1. 101 Strings: Panoramic Majesty Of Ferde Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite 2. 60 Years of “Music America Loves Best” (2) 3. Aaron Rosand, Rolf Reinhardt; Southwest German Radio Orchestra: Berlioz/Chausson/Ravel/Saint-Saens 4. ABC: How To Be A Zillionaire! 5. ABC Classics: The First Release Seon Series 6. Ahmad Jamal: One 7. Alban Berg Quartett: Berg String Quartets/Lyric Suite 8. Albert Schweitzer: Mendelssohn Organ Sonata No. 4 In B-Flat Major/Widor Organ Symphony No. 6 In G Minor 9. Alexander Schneider: Brahms Piano Quartets Complete (2) 10. Alexandre Lagoya & Claude Bolling: Concerto For Classic Guitar & Jazz Piano 11. Alexis Weissenberg, Georges Pretre; Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 12. Alexis Weissenberg, Herbert Von Karajan; Orchestre De Paris: Tchaikovsky Concerto #2 13. Alfred Deller; Deller Consort: Gregorian Chant-Easter Processions 14. Alfred Deller; Deller Consort: Music At Notre Dame 1200-1375 Guillaume De Machaut 15. Alfred Deller; Deller Consort: Songs From Taverns & Chapels 16. Alfred Deller; Deller Consort: Te Deum/Jubilate Deo 17. Alfred Newman; Brass Of The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra: Hallelujah! 18. Alicia De Larrocha: Grieg/Mendelssohn 19. Andre Cluytens; Paris Conservatoire Orchestra: Bizet 20. Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra: Columbia Album Of Richard Rodgers (2) 21. Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra: Verdi-La Traviata 22. Andre Previn; London Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninov/Shostakovich 23. Andres Segovia: Plays J.S. Bach//Edith Weiss-Mann Harpsichord Bach 24. Andy Williams: Academy Award Winning Call Me Irresponsible 25. Andy Williams: Columbia Records Catalog, Vol. 1 26. Andy Williams: The Shadow Of Your Smile 27. Angel Romero, Andre Previn: London Sympony Orchestra: Rodrigo-Concierto De Aranjuez 28. -
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 10,000Th CONCERT
' ■ w NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 10,000th CONCERT NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 10,000th CONCERT Sunday, March 7,1982, 5:00 pm Mahler Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) Zubin Mehta, Music Director and Conductor Kathleen Battle, soprano Maureen Forrester, contralto Westminster Choir, Joseph Flummerfelt, director CONTENTS The First 9,999 Concerts.................................... 2 Bernstein, Boulez, Mehta By Herbert Kupferberg.................................................. 5 New York Philharmonic: The Tradition of Greatness Continues By Howard Shanet........................................................ 8 Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic............................... 14 Contemporary Music and the New York Philharmonic............................... 15 AVERY FISHER HALL, LINCOLN CENTER THE FIRST 9,999 CONCERTS The population of New York City in NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: 1982 is 20 times what it was in 1842; the each of them. To survey them is to Philharmonic’s listeners today are define the current richness of the 10,000 times as many as they were in that organization: THE TRADITION OF GREATNESS CONTINUES The Subscription Concerts au dience, though not the largest of the their diversity they reflect the varied en Battle, David Britton, Montserrat aballé, Jennifer Jones, Christa Lud- in Avery Fisher Hall. As for television, it ig, Jessye Norman, and Frederica von is estimated that six million people Stade. (Another whole category across the country saw and heard the like - the < iductors. those chosen Philharmonic in a single televised per formance when the celebrated come dian Danny Kaye conducted the Or chestra recently in a Pension Fund benefit concert; and in a season's quota who is Music Director, of "Live from Lincoln Center" and other telecasts by the Philharmonic 20 are presented elsewhere in this publi million watchers may enjoy the Or chestra's performances in their homes. -
American Viola Society Newsletter 25 November 1983
THE AMERICAN V/OLA SOCIETY Chapter of THE INTERNATIONAL VIOLA SOCIETY Association for the Promotion of Viola Performance and Research No. 25 NEWSLETTER November 1983 THE AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY Ch apter of THE INTERNATIONAL VIOLA SOCIETY Associ ation for the Promot ion of Vio la Performance and Research No . 25 NEW SLETTER November 1983 William Prirnrose Honorary Presiden t, deceascd Maurice W. Riley Presideru Myron Rosenblurn Past Presideru Dwight Pounds Vice Preside n: Ann Woodward Treasurer Harold Klatz Sec retar y EXECUTIVE BOARD David Dalron DR. ~ILTON K A T I~ S , Paul Doktor Millon Katirns Artistic Director, Louis Kievman School of Musi c, Donald McInnes University of Ho u s t on . Robert Oppclt BOST of the XI INTERNAT IONAL Joseph de Pasquale Robert Slaughter VIOLA CC' NGR ESS . Thomas Tatton Francis Turst COORDlNATOR WITH THE CANADIAN VIOLA SOCIET Y A . Baird Knechtel XI INTERNATIONAL VIOLA CONGRESS IN HOUSTON by Maurice W. Riley Over 200 violists convened on the campus of the University of Houston from June 2 to 5 toparticipate in the XI Inter national Viola Congresa. The Congresa was hosted by Dr. Milton Katims, Artistic Director ,Of t h e Univeraity School of Musie, and by the Music Faculty. The registrants carne from 33 atates in the United States, 3 Canadian provinces, and 10 foreign eountries. At the opening banquet Dr. Myron Rosenblum, past president of the American Viola Society, and Professor Franz Zeyringer, fresident of the International Viola Society, from PBllau, Austria, were recognized and honored for their many and lasting contributions to the Viola. Dr. -
Fall 2014 Whole Notes the Magazine for Friends and Alumni of the University of Washington School of Music
Fall 2014 Whole Notes The magazine for friends and alumni of the University of Washington School of Music PARTNERSHIP WITH PACIFIC MUSICWORKS A NEW APPROACH TO OPERA AT UW GIFT OF RARE MUSIC SCORES A BOON FOR SINGERS HARRY PARTCH INSTRUMENTARIUM TAKES UP RESIDENCE AT UW IN THIS ISSUE FROM THE DIRECTOR 3 . School News 6 . Opera Reboot at UW t is a particular pleasure to 10 . Making Appearances welcome you to a look at our year 12 . Student Profile: Stephen O'Bent in review. This issue of Whole 16 . Books and Recordings INotes, containing news and updates 18 . Faculty Notes from the 2013-14 school year (and a 21 . Student and Alumni Notes little bit beyond) describes just a small 22 . Passages portion of the activities this past year 23 . Grand Finale of our students, faculty, and greater 24 . 2013-14 Scholarship Recipients School of Music community. The output 31 . 2014-15 Season Highlights and interests of our scholars and artists are vast and evolving, and this report hints at that breadth, but is by no means exhaustive. It does, however, reflect our growing Whole Notes commitment here at the School of Music Volume 3, Number 1 to engaging with our audiences and Fall 2014 artistic colleagues in ways that ensure all of our access to great art and great music Editor Joanne De Pue continue undiminished. For us, this Design La Neu, Chelsea Broeder commitment includes a greater focus Photography Steve Korn, Gary Louie, Joanne De Pue, and others as credited. on collaborations with professional musicians and arts organizations. -
Seattle Symphony January 2017 Encore
JANUARY 2017 SHOSTAKOVICH FESTIVAL TWO POWERFUL CONCERTS THREE RISING STARS MEGAN HILTY SINGS SINATRA & MORE LEARNING ITALIAN WITH PAUL RAFANELLI CONTENTS Laird Norton is a very proud supporter of the Seattle Symphony. Community building and the pursuit of excellence are core values shared by both the Symphony and Laird Norton. In partnership, we celebrate the relentless pursuit of innovation and musical excellence that unite our community and create lasting legacies. EAP full-page template.indd 1 10/24/16 2:12 PM CONTENTS JANUARY 2017 4 / CALENDAR 6 / THE ORCHESTRA 8 / SIMPLE GIFTS 10 / NOTES FEATURES 12 / BREAKING THE FRAME Can Shostakovich escape our demands for a political martyr? 14 / IF LUCK BE A LADY Her name might be Megan Hilty CONCERTS 17 / January 5, 7 & 8 BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 9 26 / January 10 WINDBORNE’S THE MUSIC OF DAVID BOWIE: A ROCK SYMPHONY WITH THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 28 / January 13–15 LUCK BE A LADY MEGAN HILTY SINGS SINATRA & MORE 30 / January 19 SHOSTAKOVICH CONCERTO FESTIVAL I 34 / January 20 28 / MEGAN HILTY SHOSTAKOVICH CONCERTO FESTIVAL II Photo: Sidney Beal Sidney Photo: 36 / January 26 & 28 MENDELSSOHN & SCHUBERT 40 / January 27 SCHUBERT UNTUXED 42 / January 27 [UNTITLED] 2 54 / GUIDE TO THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 30 / KEVIN AHFAT 30 / ALEKSEY SEMENENKO 55 / THE LIS(Z)T ON THE COVER: Edgar Moreau (p. 30) by Julien Mignot COVER DESIGN: Jessica Forsythe EDITOR: Heidi Staub © 2017 Seattle Symphony. All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means without written permission from the Seattle Symphony. -
STRING PLAYERS by David Milsom of STRING PLAYERS CONTENTS
STRING PLAYERS by David Milsom of STRING PLAYERS CONTENTS Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................5 CD Track Lists ...................................................................................................................6 Bonus Area Website .................................................................................................18 Preface ..............................................................................................................................20 BIOGRAPHIES ................................................................................................................27 Credits ............................................................................................................................. 664 About the Author .................................................................................................... 665 3 of STRING PLAYERS of STRING PLAYERS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks are due to the editorial team at Naxos for their unfailing patience and humour in a lengthy and, at times, frustrating project – my particular gratitude goes to Genevieve Helsby and Pamela Scray!eld. I would also like to thank all those who have given me the bene!t of their wisdom and expertise including, notably, George Kennaway, David Patmore, Tully Potter and Jonathan Summers – all of whom have provided elusive missing information and a considerable amount of helpful advice – as well as Robert Webb, who gave me a useful boost in terms of research -
New York Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH SEASON 1970-71 Wednesday Evening, January 20, 1971, at 8:30 7951st Concert GALA PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT Daniel Barenboim, Conductor ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, Pianist WEBER Overture to “Euryanthe” BEETHOVEN Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra, G major, Opus 58 I Poco sostenuto; Vivace ( II Andante con moto (III Rondo: Vivace ARTUR RUBINSTEIN INTERMISSION BRAHMS Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, D minor, Opus 15 I Maestoso II Adagio III Rondo: Allegro non troppo ARTUR RUBINSTEIN Mr. Rubinstein plays the Steinway Piano Assistance in underwriting of the costs of presenting this concert has been provided by The Julia D. Steinway Fund. Steinway Piano Columbia Records In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the concert are asked to do so between numbers, not during the performance. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in this auditorium. The Julia D. Steinway Fund was recently established by the Society in memory of Mrs. Frederick T. Steinway, one of the most beloved personalities in the musical life of New York and a patron of the arts long active in New York Philharmonic affairs. Mrs. Steinway was a member of the Philharmonic’s Auxiliary Board from its inception in 1923 and a Director of the Society from 1934 until her death in 1958. The setting up of the Fund was made possible by an initial contribution from The Steinway Founda tion, Inc., to which the Society is most deeply grateful. -
Week 12 2016–17 Season Prokofiev Weinberg Tchaikovsky
2016–17 season andris nelsons music director week 12 prokofiev weinberg tchaikovsky season sponsors seiji ozawa music director laureate bernard haitink conductor emeritus lead sponsor supporting sponsor thomas adès artistic partner Robert McCloskey, Drawing for Make Way for Ducklings (“There they “Make Way for Ducklings: The Art of Robert McCloskey” is organized by With support from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf waded ashore and waddled along till they came to the highway.”), The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts. Exhibition Fund and the Patricia B. Jacoby Exhibition Fund. 1941. Graphite on paper. Courtesy of The May Massee Collection, Emporia The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Media sponsor is State University Special Collections and Archives, Emporia State University. presentation is made possible by Table of Contents | Week 12 7 bso news 1 7 on display in symphony hall 18 bso music director andris nelsons 2 0 the boston symphony orchestra 23 a case for quality by gerald elias 3 0 this week’s program Notes on the Program 32 The Program in Brief… 33 Sergei Prokofiev 41 Mieczys´law Weinberg 49 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 57 To Read and Hear More… Guest Artists 63 Juanjo Mena 65 Gidon Kremer 7 0 sponsors and donors 80 future programs 82 symphony hall exit plan 8 3 symphony hall information the friday preview on january 20 is given by harlow robinson of northeastern university. program copyright ©2017 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. program book design by Hecht Design, Arlington, MA cover photo by Chris Lee cover design by BSO Marketing BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115-4511 (617) 266-1492 bso.org andris nelsons, ray and maria stata music director bernard haitink, lacroix family fund conductor emeritus seiji ozawa, music director laureate thomas adès, deborah and philip edmundson artistic partner 136th season, 2016–2017 trustees of the boston symphony orchestra, inc. -
SHANGHAI QUARTET, Tuesday, August 25, 1987, 8:00 P.M. in Hamman Hall
------~- -- - ---------------------------------- -------- ---- * * * * -k -k -k -k -k -k -k -k SECOND SUMMER SERIES -k -k -k -k -k -k -k -k -k -k -k -k SECOND CONCERT Tuesday, August 25, 1987 • 8:00 P.M. in Hamman Hall !llPuston Friends of'lusic,Inc. School~ ofMusic PRESENT THE SHANGHAI QUARTET W eigang Li - violin Honggang Li - violin Zheng Wang - viola Kathe Jarka - cello Quartetin G Major, Op. 76 No. 1.......... .. ........ .. ... Haydn Quartet No. 3•••••••••••••••••••••• • ••••••• • •••••••••·•• Bartok INTERMISSION Quartet in G minor . ................................... Debussy ************************************** Sa-er concerts presented by the Houston Friends of Music and the Shepherd School of Music feature winnen of receat chamber music competitions. The Slianpai Qautet recelYed Flnt Prize In the Chlcqo Dlsconry Competition (1987) and nry recently were lnl'ited to perform with Young Uck Kim and Yo-Yo Ma at the Mostly Mozart Series la New York. It Is our pleasure presenting these superb young artists and bringing chamber music to Bouton during the -mer months. ************************************** THE SHANGHAI QUARTET The Shuahai Qautet was formed in 1983 at the Shanghai Conservatory. After gaining national recognition in competitions and performances throughout China, they were selected to represent their country at the Portsmouth International String Quartet Competition where they were awarded Second Prize. Subsequently, the quartet left China to continue their studies with the Vermeer Quartet in the United States. They also studied with the Tokyo String Quartet at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and this summer were chosen to be the resident fellowship quartet at the Tanglewood Music Center. The quartet received First Prize in the Chicago Discovery Competition (1987) held by the Chamber Music Society of Chicago and were prize wiMers at the First Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition (1987).