DOCSLIB.ORG

Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1965-1966

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1965-1966 T" ^ffmm^i •"! FIRST WEEK July 2, 3, 4, 1966 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL The Boston Symphony under Leinsdorf This recording of Prokof/'eff's Sixth Symphon y is a perfect example of the insight and drama with which the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under Leinsdorf, has invested the many Prokofieff masterpieces already recorded by them. Another striking example of their contemporary understanding is their powerful performance of Mahler's Sixth Symphon y, recorded for the first time in stereo, which takes its place among their cherished recordings of this master's First and Fifth Sympho- t£*"*i nies. Equally treasurable are their shimmering Firebird Mahler: S>mphon> So. 6 and glittering Le Cog d'Or. In D ynagroove sound. Boston Svmpbom Orchestra Erich Leinsdorf Bit Tjfhimy Orchestra/ Erich Lemdnrf Rimaky-Koraakoff/"LE GOQ D OR SUITE Stravinsky /"FIREBIRD" SUITE rca Victor® ^SJThe most trusted name m sound ~t BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director RICHARD Burgin, Associate Conductor Berkshire Festival, Season 1966 TWENTY-NINTH SEASON MUSIC SHED AT TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS FIRST WEEK Historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Assisted by DONALD T. GAMMONS Copyright, 1966 by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The Trustees of The BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. President Vice-President Treasurer Henry B. Cabot Talcott M. Banks John L. Thorndike Philip K. Allen Francis W. Hatch Henry A. Laughlin Abram Berkowitz Andrew Heiskell Edward G. Murray Theodore P. Ferris Harold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Robert H. Gardiner E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Sidney R. Rabb Raymond S. Wilkins Trustees Emeritus Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Lawrence K. Miller Jesse L. Thomason Lenges Bull George E. Mole Robert K. Wheeler George W. Edman Whitney S. Stoddard H. George Wilde Chairmen of the Boards of Selectmen (Ex Officio): Stockbridge, Robert Williams Lenox, John Pignatelli Lee, Andre Jaotjen Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo Harry J. Kraut Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Manager Sanford R. Sistare Andrew Raeburn Press and Puhlicity Assistant to the Music Director — 1 SOLOISTS There are four new SHMUEL ASHKENASI Shmuel Ashkenasi, born in Tel Aviv the in 1941, began his musical studies at gave his Israel Musical Academy. He Automatic Turntables. age of first public performance at the of them, twelve with the Orchestra of the Israeli One radio. After winning a scholarship the LAB 80... award from the American Israel Cul- United tural Foundation he came to the is the first Efrem States, where he studied with Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute, gradu- a ating in 1963. Mr. Ashkenasi was Competi- finalist in the Queen Elisabeth tion in Brussels, and since receiving Second Prize in the Tchaikovsky Com- petition in Moscow in 1962, he has toured extensively in the Soviet Union, Israel, Europe and the United States. JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN Joseph Silverstein succeeded Richard Burgin as Concertmaster in 1962. He became a member of the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra in 1955 when he was twenty-three and the youngest member of the Orchestra at that time. Born in Detroit, he studied at the Curtis Insti- tute of Music in Philadelphia, and later with Joseph Gingold and Mischa Misch- akoff. He played in the orchestras of Houston, Denver and Philadelphia be- fore joining this one. Mr. Silverstein has won signal honors here and abroad. In the autumn of 1961 he was awarded the prize in the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Competition. JULES ESKIN Jules Eskin joined this Orchestra as principal cellist in the fall of 1964. Mr. Eskin became the principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1961. He was born in Philadelphia and has also been a former student at the Curtis Institute where he studied with Leonard Rose. Before going to Cleveland Mr. Eskin played with the Dallas Symphony, and was first cellist with the New York City — 2 — BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday Evening, July 2, at 8:00 ERICH LEINSDORF, Conductor WAGNER Overture to "Tannhauser" STRAVINSKY Suite from the Ballet "Petrouchka" The Shrove-Tide Fair—The Mountebank's Booth—Russian Dance—Petrouchka's Room—Dance of the Ballerina (Waltz) — Grand Carnival—Nurses' Dance—The Dance of the Coachmen and Grooms—The Masqueraders Piano Solo: Richard Woitach Intermission BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 11 I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace Soloist: SHMUEL ASHKENASI BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS — 3 — * Center Opera and Ballet Orchestra. He made a recital tour of Europe in 1961 and has given recitals in Town Hall, New York. He has also played annually in the Casals Festival Orchestra in Berkshire Puerto Rico. ANNE ELGAR @atFacto% Anne Elgar is currently a leading soprano with the New York City Center Top brand fashions Opera Company. During the past three seasons she has sung leading roles in at 20-40% discount! Der Fledermaus, La Boheme, Carmen, They're nor closeouts, and they're not Seconds. Borden, The Merry Widow, Lizzie . They are those same famous brands you Natalia Petrovna and Carmina Burana. all know so well and you'll pay 20 to 40% less than the notional advertised price! Don't believe us though .... check the national ads ABBEY SIMON on our bulletin boards and you'll see the $$$ you save. Abbey Simon was born in New York City and began his musical studies at the age of eight at the Curtis Institute. He made his New York debut in Town Hall in 1940 and, after service in the U. S. Army during World War II, has been on continuous concert tours since the end of the war. Among his impor- tant honors are the Walter W. Naum- burg Award, the National Orchestral Award, and the Elizabeth Sprague Cool- lidge Medal. His concert appearances have taken him to all parts of the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, Israel, India, Hong Kong and New Zea- land. He has also made numerous tele- vision and radio appearances in the United States, Australia and Europe. Since 1950 Mr. Simon has made his residence in Geneva with his wife and teen-age son. The taking of photographs in the Shed is not allowed during musical performances. Members of the audience who must OQDLJna leave before the end of the concert are OAK ST.OFF LINCOLN earnestly requested to do so between DODO PITTSFIELD, MASS. numbers, not during the performance. — 4 Program J^otes Saturday Evening, July 2 OVERTURE TO "TANNHAUSER" (Dresden Version) By Richard Wagner Born in Leipzig, May 22, 1813; died in Venice, February 13, 1883 Wagner has given his own explanation of the music of the Tannhduser Overture. Here it is, in a somewhat condensed translation by William Aston Ellis {Wagner's Prose Works) : At the beginning the orchestra chants the song of the pilgrims, which, as it approaches, swells into a mighty hymn, but at length recedes. It is twilight; the last strain of the pilgrim's song is heard. As night comes on, magic sights and sounds appear. A rosy mist arises, wafting to our ears voluptuous cries of joy; we become aware of the wild turmoil of a wanton dance. These are the seductive spells of the "Venusberg," which at the hour of night reveal themselves to those inflamed with sensual desire. Tannhauser, the Minnesinger, trolls forth his jubiliant love song to Venus. An enraptur- At the Berkshire Festival this Season these Great Concert Pianists s \ VAN CLIBURN • MALCOLM FRAGER CLAUDE FRANK . LILIAN KALLIR GRANT JOHANNESEN THE PLAY STMWAY \ S M. STEINERT & SONS T62 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON • ALSO WORCESTER, SPRINGFIELD — 5 — ing fragrance steals away his senses. Endowed now with supernatural vision, he perceives in the dim light her unspeakably lovely being; he hears her voice which, with bewitching sweetness, murmurs a promise of unutterable delights. Then the wonder of the Venusberg is revealed to him in its fullest brightness. Day begins to dawn, and now the chant of the returning pilgrims is heard from afar. As this chant draws closer and closer, as the day drives farther back the night, that whir and soughing of the air—which had erewhile sounded like the aerial cries of souls condemned—now rises, too, in ever gladder waves; so that when the sun ascends at last in splendor, and the Pilgrim's chant proclaims in ecstasy to all the world, to all that lives and moves thereon, Salvation won, this wave itself swells out the tidings of sub- limest joy. Tis the carol of the Venusberg itself, redeemed from the curse of impiousness, this cry amid the hymn of God. The Tannhauser Overture in this, its most familiar form, is a brilliant set-piece of conventional tripartite construction, A-B-A, the opening and con- cluding section utilizing the music of the Pilgrim's Chorus heard in the third act of the opera, the middle section being derived from the music of the Venusberg scene. Marlboro Music Festival RUDOLF SERKIN • Artistic Director MARLBORO, VERMONT Festival Orchestra •Chamber Music ON WEEKENDS: JULY 1- AUGUST 14 SATURDAYS AT 8:30 PM - SUNDAYS AT 3:00 PM FRIDAYS, JULY 1 AND AUGUST 12 AT 8:30 PM OPENING WEEKEND— JULY 1, 2, 3 PABLO CASALS conducting the Marlboro Festival Orchestra Programs include BACH'S FOUR SUITES FOR ORCHESTRA SOLD OUT Ticket Information from : Marlboro Festival, Box T, Marlboro, Vt. or phone: 802-254-8163 Steinway Piano Columbia Records — 6 — SUITE FROM "PETROUCHKA" By Igor Stravinsky Born in Oranienbaum, near St. Petersburg, June 17, 1882 The ballet "Petrouchka: Scenes burlesque en 4 Tableaux," scenario by Igor Stravin- sky and Alexander Benois, was first produced at the Chalet, in Paris, June 13, 1911, by the Ballet Russe of Serge de Diaghilev.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Season 2018-2019 the Philadelphia Orchestra
    Season 2018-2019 The Philadelphia Orchestra Saturday, June 15, at 8:00 Sunday, June 16, at 2:00 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Richard Woodhams Oboe Ricardo Morales Clarinet Daniel Matsukawa Bassoon Jennifer Montone Horn Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 297b, for winds and orchestra I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Andantino con variazioni—Andante The June 15 concert is sponsored by Ralph Muller. The June 16 concert is sponsored by John McFadden and Lisa Kabnick. 24 The Philadelphia Orchestra Jessica Griffin The Philadelphia Orchestra Philadelphia is home and orchestra, and maximizes is one of the preeminent the Orchestra continues impact through Research. orchestras in the world, to discover new and The Orchestra’s award- renowned for its distinctive inventive ways to nurture winning Collaborative sound, desired for its its relationship with its Learning programs engage keen ability to capture the loyal patrons at its home over 50,000 students, hearts and imaginations of in the Kimmel Center, families, and community audiences, and admired for and also with those who members through programs a legacy of imagination and enjoy the Orchestra’s area such as PlayINs, side-by- innovation on and off the performances at the Mann sides, PopUP concerts, concert stage. The Orchestra Center, Penn’s Landing, free Neighborhood is inspiring the future and and other cultural, civic, Concerts, School Concerts, transforming its rich tradition and learning venues. The and residency work in of achievement, sustaining Orchestra maintains a Philadelphia and abroad. the highest level of artistic strong commitment to Through concerts, tours, quality, but also challenging— collaborations with cultural residencies, presentations, and exceeding—that level, and community organizations and recordings, the on a regional and national by creating powerful musical Orchestra is a global cultural level, all of which create experiences for audiences at ambassador for Philadelphia greater access and home and around the world.
    [Show full text]
  • NYSTA January-February 2013.Pmd
    1 VOICEPrints JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK SINGING TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION January-- February 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS: FEATURED EVENT and COURSE............................................................................................................. .........Page 1 Message from President David Sabella-Mills....................................................................................................Page 2 Message from Editor Matthew Hoch.............................................................................................................. Page 2 NYSTA 2013 Calendar of Events................................................................................................................. .Page 3 FEATURE ARTICLE: Getting to Know Marni Nixon by NYSTA Member Sarah Adams Hoover, DMA..........Pages 4--5 FEATURE ARTICLE: VOCEVISTA: Using Visual Real-Time Feedback by NYSTA Member Deborah Popham, DMA............................................................................Pages 6--7 NYSTA New Member..................................................................................................................................... .Page 8 Dean Williamson Master Class: October 25, 2012............................................................................................Page 8 NYSTA Board of Directors ...............................................................................................................................Page 8 OREN LATHROP BROWN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FEATURED EVENT: FEATURED COURSE: WINTER 2013 ONLINE
    [Show full text]
  • Rachmaninoff, Paganini, & the Piano; a Conversation
    Rachmaninoff, Paganini, & the Piano; a Conversation Tracks and clips 1. Rachmaninoff in Paris 16:08 a. Niccolò Paganini, 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1, Michael Rabin, EMI 724356799820, recorded 9/5/1958. b. Sergey Rachmaninoff (SR), Rapsodie sur un theme de Paganini, Op. 43, SR, Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia Orchestra (PO), BMG Classics 09026-61658, recorded 12/24/1934 (PR). c. Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (FC), Twelve Études, Op. 25, Alfred Cortot, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (DGG) 456751, recorded 7/1935. d. SR, Piano Concerto No. 3 in d, Op. 30, SR, Eugene Ormandy (EO), PO, Naxos 8.110601, recorded 12/4/1939.* e. Carl Maria von Weber, Rondo Brillante in E♭, J. 252, Julian Jabobson, Meridian CDE 84251, released 1993.† f. FC, Twelve Études, Op. 25, Ruth Slenczynska (RS), Musical Heritage Society MHS 3798, released 1978. g. SR, Preludes, Op. 32, RS, Ivory Classics 64405-70902, recorded 4/8/1984. h. Georges Enesco, Cello & Piano Sonata, Op. 26 No. 2, Alexandre Dmitriev, Alexandre Paley, Saphir Productions LVC1170, released 10/29/2012.† i. Claude Deubssy, Children’s Corner Suite, L. 113, Walter Gieseking, Dante 167, recorded 1937. j. Ibid., but SR, Victor B-24193, recorded 4/2/1921, TvJ35-zZa-I. ‡ k. SR, Piano Concerto No. 3 in d, Op. 30, Walter Gieseking, John Barbirolli, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Music & Arts MACD 1095, recorded 2/1939.† l. SR, Preludes, Op. 23, RS, Ivory Classics 64405-70902, recorded 4/8/1984. 2. Rachmaninoff & Paganini 6:08 a. Niccolò Paganini, op. cit. b. PR. c. Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Sonata in d, Op. 5 No. 12, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Linn CKD 412, recorded 1/11/2012.♢ d.
    [Show full text]
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1946
    TANGLEWOOD — LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Series B AUGUST 1, 3, 4 STEIItWAV it vm Since fhe time of Liszt, the Sfeinway has consistently been, year after year, the medium chosen by an overwhelming number of concert artists to express their art. Eugene List, Mischa Elman and William Kroll, soloists of this Berk- shire Festival, use the Steinway. Significantly enough, the younger artists, the Masters of tomorrow, entrust their future to this world-famous piano — fhey cannot afFord otherwise to en- danger their artistic careers. The Stein- way is, and ever has been, the Glory Road of the Immortals. M. STEINERT & SONS CO. : 162 BOYLSTON ST.. BOSTON Jerome F. Murphy, Prasic/enf • Also Worcester and SpHngfieid MUSIC SHED TANGLEWOOD (Between Stockbridge and Lenox, Massachusetts) NINTH BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL SEASON 1 946 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1946, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, IflC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Henry B. Sawyer Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Jacob J. Kaplan Alvan T. Fuller Roger I. Lee Jerome D. Greene Bentley W. Warren N. Penrose Hallowell Raymond S. Wilkins Francis W. Hatch Oliver Wolcott TANGLEWOOD ADVISORY COMMITTEE Allan J. Blau G. Churchill Francis George P. Clayson Lawrence K. Miller Bruce Crane James T. Owens
    [Show full text]
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1969
    TANGLEWOQ ik O^r '^0k^s^\^^ , { >^ V BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 7 :ICH LEINSDORF Music Director v- '^vy^. 'vt 4j>*l li'?^ BERKSHIRE FESTimL Sometimes when a man has worked very hard and succeeded, he enjoys ordering things just because they're expensive. -''«4^. ^*fc.-' ri** ^itim YEARS OLD Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch 12 YEAR OLD BLENDED SCOTCttJ^KY, 86.8 PROOF. IMPORTED BY SOMERSET IMMI^HtD., N.Y,, N.Y. vsPTm' CL'iPCLViay/^le i^ ^c^o<ym wia//idi ^yymxz'TtceA Btethoven Iwko^Swu SYMPHONY N0.4/LEONORE OVERTURE No. 2 IHI BOSTON SYMPHONY/ERICH LEINSDORF ^?^. PROKOFIEFF ^^I^M S^MPW Ifl. 7 ^^F^n Mn«( from ^^^^^^Hr ^^^^H ^^gpHH CORIOllN ROMEO AND ^k^^v -^^H \mi mnwi JULIET ^^k, <vT 4^R|| ^^^. ^^sifi ^RL'S^ BOSTON ^^T ^'%- flRK HiiHr n [[i^DORF, SYMPHONY ^^Lr- ..v^i^^^ ^^^^^^^^^B ^E^Hb # ERICH ^^B JH^^E^ LEINSDORF ^^PHj^^H|^ Conduclor 9SH|^V^^^^^K^^^^Bs . ^k }iiiMomi T^lH^B ^ Bfc/---^— LM/LSC-2969 LM/LSC-2994 LM/LSC-3006 Haydn BRHHins: svmPHonv no. 4 , ^ Symphony No. 93 ^m BOSTon svmPHonv orchestrii Symphony No. 96 ("Miracle") ERICH lEinSDORF ^t Boston Symphony Erich Leinsdorf, Conductor &L '^mlocmt(J§rc^f.i/m LSC-3030 LM/LSC-3010 Invite Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra to your home ... transform a memory to a permanent possession! ncii RTA Distributors, Inc. (Exclusive Wholesale Distributor) • RTA Building • Albany, New York 12204 The gentle taste of Fundadoi^ PP^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^Y ^^ li^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ISlA J'^^^^^T drinker. You raise the snifter to your lips. You have barely lived, yet life— :^"» you feel—has already passed you by.
    [Show full text]
  • Swr2-Musikstunde-20111207.Pdf
    __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 John Culshaw (3) Der Herr der Klänge: John Culshaw – Pionier der Stereo - Aufnahmetechnik. Die gestrige Musikstunde ging mit dem Don Juan von Richard Strauss zu Ende, in der 1956 von John Culshaw produzierten und von Fritz Reiner dirigierten Aufnahme mit den Wiener Philharmonikern … heute Morgen möchte ich gleich an einen weiteren in Wien entstandenen Schallplatten-Klassiker aus dem Jahre 1960 anknüpfen. Auch hier hatte Culshaw die Fäden in der Hand, und noch einmal stand Fritz Reiner am Pult. Bei einem Dirigenten, der 1888 in Budapest geboren und 1963 gestorben ist, der zudem die letzten vier Jahrzehnte seines Lebens überwiegend in den Vereinigten Staaten gearbeitet hat, mag bei einem jüngerem Publikum die Frage aufkommen: Wer bitteschön war Fritz Reiner ??? Der amerikanische Kritikerpapst Harold Schonberg hat einmal folgende Kurzcharakteristik gewagt: „Ein kleinwüchsiger Mann - mit großem Taktstock ...und einem klitzekleinen Schlag. Aufgrund seines musikalischen Intellekts, seiner überragenden musikalischen Fähigkeiten und seines beispiellosen Gehörs nahm er im Musikleben und - denken des 2o. Jahrhunderts eine einzigartige Rolle ein.“ Soweit Harold Schonberg. Reiner genoss zu Lebzeiten (und genießt in Kennerkreisen noch heute) größte Wertschätzung, er war ein Orchestererzieher par excellence...so verdankt ihm das Chicago Symphony Orchestra den Aufstieg zur Weltklasse, bevor Georg Solti es übernahm. Präzision und Detailgenauigkeit galten ihm als oberstes Gesetz. Gefürchtet war er bei den Musikern aber nicht nur wegen seines Perfektionismus und seines unfehlbaren Gehörs, sondern vor allem wegen seiner angsteinflößenden und für die Orchestermusiker oft erniedrigenden Ausbrüche. Wie eines seiner Chicagoer Opfer lakonisch anmerkte: Jeden Tag, an dem er nicht ausrastete, war er zu krank, um dirigieren zu können.
    [Show full text]
  • Jazz Concert
    Artist Series Andrew Cooperstock, piano Friday, February 15, 2019 at 8pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center Pacific Lutheran University School of Arts and Communication / Department of Music presents Artist Series Andrew Cooperstock, piano Music of Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) A Centennial Tribute Friday, February 15, 2019 at 8pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center Welcome to Lagerquist Concert Hall. Please disable the audible signal on all watches and cellular phones for the duration of the concert. Use of cameras, recording equipment and all digital devices is not permitted in the concert hall. PROGRAM El Salón Mexico ........................................................................................................ (1936, orig. pub. 1939/arr. pub. 1941) Sonata for the Piano ................................................................................................................................... (1938, pub. 1979) I. Presto. Molto moderato. Presto. Scherzando II. Largo. Moderato. Molto moderato Selections from Anniversaries ................................................................................................................................ (1942-88) For Aaron Copland For Sergei Koussevitzky In Memoriam: Nathalie Koussevitzky For Felicia Montealgre For Susanna Kyle For Stephen Sondheim In Memoriam: William Kapell In Memoriam: Helen Coates Four Sabras .............................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection [Finding Aid]
    Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection Guides to Special Collections in the Music Division of the Library of Congress Music Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 1980 Revised 2014 Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/perform.contact Additional search options available at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012012 LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/2012562124 Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress Collection Summary Title: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection Span Dates: 1894-1953 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1920-1953) Call No.: ML29 Creator: Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1864-1953 Extent: 56,680 items ; 109 containers ; 48.50 linear feet Language: Collection material in English Location: Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Summary: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was a composer, pianist, and patron of music. In 1925, she created the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation at the Library of Congress in support of chamber music. The collection contains Coolidge's correspondence to and from many of the prominent musical artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Extensive correspondence between Coolidge and Library of Congress librarians and administrators is also included. The remaining materials in the collection, including photographs, scrapbooks, business papers, programs, publicity materials, iconography, realia, and clippings, are available for research and will be incorporated into the finding aid at a later date. Music manuscripts of works commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge or the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress comprise a substantial portion of the collection and are cataloged individually. Selected Search Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
    [Show full text]
  • Nwsltr 23 4.Pdf
    -~-SPRING 2011 VOL. 23 i NO.4 A Newsletter for Supporters and Friends of the Symphony o t e 5 Andrew Rammon, principal cellist of the Williamsport Symphony While living in Los Angeles, Mr. Rammon appeared in Steven Orchestra, was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and raised in a family of Spielberg's movie Amistad and in a music video by Puff Daddy. During American musicians in Germany. He began his formal studies at the the summer Mr. Rammon performs and teaches in Heidelberg, Frankfurt Musikhochschule while in high school, and continued at Germany as part of Pepperdine University's summer music program. Pepperdine University and The Cleveland Institute of Music. His Past performances as soloist with the WSO include Shostakovich Cello teachers include Ronald Leonard and Stephen Geber. Currently Concerto (2004), and Richard Strauss, Don Quixote (2008). Mr. Rammon is the cellist of the Grammy-nominated Eaken Piano Trio. Mr. Rammon teaches cello at Bucknell, Susquehanna and Mansfield The trio has performed extensively in the United States, Europe and Universities, and Lycoming College. In Williamsport he maintains a China. Their twelve commercial recordings have been heard on private studio of talented young cello students with whom he plays in National Public Radio's Performance Today and All Things Considered the biannual event called Cellobration. and have been broadcast on many local radio stations including WVIA. The trio's upcoming projects include the recording of a CD of arrangements and original music by Mike Garson, a featured soloist with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra in 2009. Concen Sponsor LYCOMING COLLEGE Guest Artist Sponsor AITORNEYS FOR THE ARTS Williamsport Symphony Orchestra 1220 West Fourth Street,Third Floor 1 Williamsport, PA 17701-61021570.322.02271 www.williamsportsymphony.org CONDUCTOR'S CORNER cSa()eIhe dale Dear Friends, It is hard to believe that our final concert of c5afurday:June 11 the season is a month away! At the Symphony we are all having a fantastic time and the season finale is one not to be missed.
    [Show full text]
  • Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center New World Spirit Sunday, October 13, 2019 3:00 Pm Photo: Tristan Cook Tristan Photo
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center New World Spirit Sunday, October 13, 2019 3:00 pm Photo: Tristan Cook Tristan Photo: 2019/2020 SEASON The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center GLORIA CHIEN, Piano NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS, Cello CHAD HOOPES, Violin DAVID FINCKEL, Cello KRISTIN LEE, Violin ANTHONY MANZO, Double Bass ARNAUD SUSSMANN, Violin RANSOM WILSON, Flute ANGELO XIANG YU, Violin DAVID SHIFRIN, Clarinet MATTHEW LIPMAN, Viola MARC GOLDBERG, Bassoon PAUL NEUBAUER, Viola Sunday, October 13, 2019, at 3:00 pm Hancher Auditorium, The University of Iowa PROGRAM New World Spirit This concert celebrates the intrepid American spirit by featuring two pairs of composers that shaped the course of American music. Harry T. Burleigh was a star student of Dvorákˇ at the National Conservatory in New York. A talented composer and singer, he exposed the Czech composer to American spirituals and was in turn encouraged by Dvorákˇ to perform his native African American folk music. Two generations later, Copland and Bernstein conceived a clean, clear American sound that conveys the wonder and awe of open spaces and endless possibilities. Southland Sketches for violin and piano (1916) Henry T. Burleigh I. Andante (1866–1949) II. Adagio ma non troppo III. Allegretto grazioso IV. Allegro Chad Hoopes and Gloria Chien Quintet in E-flat Major for two violins, two violas, Antonín Dvorákˇ and cello, Op. 97, (“American”) (1893) (1841–1904) I. Allegro non tanto II. Allegro vivo III. Larghetto IV. Finale: Allegro giusto Arnaud Sussmann, Angelo Xiang Yu, Paul Neubauer, Matthew Lipman, and Nicholas Canellakis INTERMISSION Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1941–42) Leonard Bernstein I.
    [Show full text]
  • MALCOLM FRAGER COLLECTION (2013 Gift)
    MALCOLM FRAGER COLLECTION (2013 Gift) RUTH T. WATANABE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SIBLEY MUSIC LIBRARY EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Processed by Jacek Blaszkiewicz, summer 2015 Revised by David Peter Coppen, spring 2017 1 Vladimir Ashkenazy and Malcolm Frager. Photograph attributed to New York Times Staff Photographer (ca. 1966). From Malcolm Frager Collection, Box 11, Folder 11. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Description of the Collection . 4 Description of Series . 6 SUB-GROUP I: PERSONAL PAPERS Series 1: Correspondence . 8 Series 2: Publicity . 15 Series 3: Business papers . 16 Series 4: Biographical and other personal papers . 17 Series 5: Concert programs . 18 Series 6: Awards . 19 Series 7: Sound recordings . 21 Series 8: Oversized items . 25 SUB-GROUP II: SCORES Series 1: Inscribed to Malcolm Frager . 26 Series 2: Annotated by Malcolm Frager . 27 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION Shelf location M3A 1,1—1,6 Physical extent: 18 linear feet Biographical sketch Photograph of Malcolm Frager from CAMI publicity circular. From Malcolm Frager Collection (2013 Gift), Box 11, Folder 4. Malcolm Frager (1935-1991), American concert pianist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended public school and received his earliest musical training. He earned his baccalaureate at Columbia University, where he studied languages in addition to music. His twin victories in the Leventritt Competition (1959) and the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition (1960) launched his career on an international level. In 1963 he made a tour of the U.S.S.R., on which occasion he performed two-piano repertory with fellow pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, who would remain a close friend of Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Godowsky6 30/06/2003 11:53 Page 8
    225187 bk Godowsky6 30/06/2003 11:53 Page 8 Claudius zugeschriebenen Gedichts. Litanei, Robert Braun gewidmet, nach der DDD In Wohin?, dessen Widmungsträger Sergej Vertonung eines Gedichts von Johann Georg Jacobi, ist Rachmaninow ist, bearbeitet Godowsky das zweite Lied ein Gebet für den Seelenfrieden der Verstorbenen. Das Leopold 8.225187 der Schönen Müllerin, in dem der junge Müllersbursche Originallied und die Transkription sind von einer den Bach hört, dessen sanftes Rauschen, in der Stimmung inneren Friedens durchzogen. Klavierfassung eingefangen, ihn aufzufordern scheint, Godowskys Schubert-Transkriptionen enden mit GODOWSKY seine Reise fortzusetzen, doch wohin? einem Konzertarrangement der Ballettmusik zu Die junge Nonne, David Saperton gewidmet, Rosamunde aus dem Jahr 1923 und der Bearbeitung des basiert auf der Vertonung eines Gedichts von Jacob dritten Moment musical op. 94 von 1922. Schubert Transcriptions Nicolaus Craigher. Die junge Nonne kontrastiert den in der Natur brausenden Sturm mit dem Frieden und Keith Anderson Wohin? • Wiegenlied • Die Forelle • Das Wandern • Passacaglia ewigen Lohn des religiösen Lebens. Deutsche Fassung: Bernd Delfs Konstantin Scherbakov, Piano 8.225187 8 225187 bk Godowsky6 30/06/2003 11:53 Page 2 Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) für 44 Variationen in der traditionellen barocken Form, Godowsky jede Strophe des Original-Lieds. Piano Music Volume 6: Schubert Transcriptions zu denen u.a. auch eine gelungene Anspielung auf den Das Wandern ist das erste Lied des Zyklus Die Erlkönig zählt. Die Variationen, in denen das Thema in schöne Müllerin, in dem der junge Müllersbursche seine The great Polish-American pianist Leopold Godowsky of Saint-Saëns, Godowsky transcribed for piano his unterschiedlichen Gestalten und Registern zurückkehrt, Wanderung beginnt.
    [Show full text]