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NED ROREM Philharmoniker rorem book(noborder) 6/18/03 8:28 AM Page 1 gehört, als sie Arthur Lief im Rathaussaal von Somnambulismus, voller dynamischer Kontraste, und Manhattan zur Aufführung brachte. Das war wie aus einer anderen Welt kommend. IV ist ein AMERICAN CLASSICS wahrscheinlich auch das letzte Mal, dass sie gespielt Abschiedsgruß an Frankreich. V ist ein groß angelegtes, wurde.“ schnelles Rondo; ein ‘Konzert für Orchester’ für sich.“ Rorems Dritte Sinfonie wurde im April 1959 in der Der erste Satz beginnt mit einer Melodiefigur in Carnegie Hall mit großem Erfolg uraufgeführt, absteigenden Terzen, die die Grundlage für den Leonard Bernstein dirigierte die New Yorker gesamten Satz bildet. Ein Trommelwirbel leitet ohne NED ROREM Philharmoniker. Nachdem das Werk im Jahre 2000 am Pause zum zweiten Satz über, einem Allegro molto gleichen Ort wiederaufgeführt wurde, durch André vivace, das die Stelle des Scherzos einnimmt. Der dritte Previn und das Orchester des Curtis Institute of Music, Satz (den Rorem, wie er mir erzählt hat, für den besten Three Symphonies schrieb Allan Kozinn in der New York Times: „Das hält) ist eine Art Zwischenspiel. Er beginnt mit einem Werk war nicht sehr oft zu hören, aber heute ist sein eintaktigen Motiv in den Streichern, das mehrere Male tonaler, eklektischer Charakter wieder aktuell: Tonalität wiederkehrt, wie ein Ritornell, und mit dem der Satz Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra • José Serebrier ist jetzt allgemein anerkannt, und Komponisten, die 40 auch endet. Zwischen den „Ritornellen“ stehen Duette Jahre jünger sind als Ned Rorem, schreiben Musik, die der Oboen und Trompeten und ein großartiger auf ganz ähnliche Dinge anspielt.“ In der Tat wurde die orchestraler Höhepunkt. Dieser Satz hat all den Dritte Sinfonie nach ihrer Uraufführung nur selten Charme und die Direktheit der Lieder Rorems. Der gespielt. Das Werk wurde zusammen mit Schumans anschließende langsame Satz wird von einem Solo des Siebenten Sinfonie auf LP eingespielt (vom Englischhorns eröffnet; er ist nachdenklich, pastoral im Sinfonieorchester des Staates Utah unter Maurice Charakter. Das Finale stellt seinen Grundrhythmus Abravanel); die LP gibt es aber schon lange nicht mehr, zunächst im Schlagzeug vor, dann in den tiefen und sie wurde auch bis heute nicht als CD neu Streichern und Holzbläsern. Ein „heroisches“ Thema herausgegeben. Eine Aufnahme der Uraufführung mit hebt in den Trompeten an, wird jedoch bald abgerissen, Bernstein ist in einer Sammlung erschienen, die und der triumphale Charakter des Themas verwandelt Rundfunkmitschnitte von Konzerten der New Yorker sich in eine flehende Melodie. Doch nicht lange, und Philharmoniker enthält. die heroischen Trompeten kehren wieder, um ein Die Reihenfolge der Sätze in der Sinfonie entspricht zweites Mal in die flehende Melodie überzugehen. Ein nicht der Chronologie ihrer Entstehung. Rorem orchestrales Feuerwerk schließt sich an, kontrastiert erklärt: „Von den fünf Sätzen entstand der zweite zuerst, von einem klagenden Gesang der Streicher, der auf der der erste als zweites, der vierte als drittes und der dritte Trompetenmelodie basiert. Diese beiden Elemente als viertes; den letzten Satz komponierte ich auch zuletzt. folgen in der Art eines Rondos aufeinander und führen I ist eine Passacaglia in C, eine langsame Ouvertüre im zu einem strahlenden Schlusshöhepunkt, dessen großen Stil. II ist ein lebhafter, jazziger Tanz; triumphaler Charakter nun nicht mehr in Frage gestellt ursprünglich ein Stück für zwei Klaviere, das acht Jahre wird. früher als die anderen Sätze entstand, und das ich als zweiten Satz in die Sinfonie aufgenommen habe. III ist José Serebrier eine kurze, leidenschaftliche Studie über Deutsche Fassung: Tilo Kittel 8.559149 8 rorem book(noborder) 6/18/03 8:28 AM Page 3 Ned Rorem (b. 1923): Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3 und schließlich zu einer kurzen Reprise. Der reizvolle norwegischen Hauptstadt Oslo. Im Jahre 1957 wurde Ned Rorem was born private life and the lives of many famous artists. zweite Satz ist eine Art Pastorale im Geiste Faurés; er sie in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, aufgeführt, unter der in Richmond, Indiana, “Lies” is the latest installment in his diary. Rorem has nimmt die Stelle des Scherzos ein. Rorem hat diesen Leitung des berühmten Klavierbegleiters Edwin on 23rd October, 1923. said: “My music is a diary no less compromising than Satz später für Orgel solo bearbeitet. Im langsamen McArthur, seitdem scheint sie größtenteils in At the age of ten his my prose. A diary nevertheless differs from a musical Satz, dem dritten, erklingt eine liebliche Melodie Vergessenheit geraten zu sein. piano teacher intro- composition in that it depicts the moment, the writer’s zunächst in den Flöten, anschließend wird sie in der Der erste Satz der Zweiten Sinfonie beginnt mit duced him to the music present mood which, were it inscribed an hour later, Oboe weitergeführt. Der Satz erreicht früh einen einer kurzen Themenvorstellung im vollen Orchester, of Debussy and Ravel, could emerge quite otherwise”. Höhepunkt in den Streichern, bevor die Melodie nun in die noch einmal, leicht verändert, wiederholt wird. Sie an experience which Rorem is best known for his vocal music. der Solo-Bratsche erscheint, in Oktaven mit der Flöte. hat den Charakter einer kurzen Einleitung zum Rorem describes as Nevertheless, his orchestral output is quite large, as is Im Mittelteil des Satzes übernehmen Holz- und eigentlichen Hauptthema, einer weit ausgeschwun- having changed his life his list of choral and chamber music. Besides the three Blechbläser die melodische Führung; ihnen schließt genen Melodie, die von den Bratschen und Violoncelli forever. At seventeen symphonies included on this recording, he wrote a sich bald das gesamte Orchester an. In der „Reprise“ unisono vorgestellt wird. Nach und nach schließen sich he entered the Music String Symphony, unnumbered, first given in 1985 by (eigentlich nicht das treffende Wort) wird das Material die anderen Streicher und die Holzbläser an, stets im School of Northwestern University, and two years Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, with a des ersten Teils vollständig umgeformt. Das Finale ist unisono. Schließlich kehrt das Motiv aus der Einleitung later the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, recording that won the 1989 GrammyN award for ein heiterer, „glücklicher“ Satz, der zwischen lebhaften, in veränderter Gestalt wieder, nun schnell und where he now teaches composition, a post he has held Outstanding Orchestral Recording, and other works rhythmisch betonten Abschnitten und lyrischen spielerisch, zunächst vorgestellt in den Fagotten. Aus for many years. He studied composition with Bernard include Air Music, a Violin Concerto, a Piano Concerto Ausbrüchen wechselt. Das zweite Motiv stammt aus diesen Elementen formt Rorem einen gewaltigen Satz, Wagenaar at Juilliard, and worked as Virgil for Left Hand and Orchestra, a Concerto for English einem arabischen Hochzeitslied, das Rorem in so lang wie die beiden folgenden Sätze zusammen. Der Thomson’s copyist in return for orchestration lessons. Horn and Orchestra, for the New York Philharmonic Marokko im Radio gehört hat. langsame zweite Satz hat den Charakter eines Liedes, From 1949 to 1958 he lived in France, a crucial period 150th anniversary, a Double Concerto for Violin, Cello Da Rorem jeden Satz genau datiert hat, können wir das durch die Intervalle am Beginn einen typisch for his artistic development. Among his many awards and Orchestra (1998), and concertos for organ and for den Verlauf seiner Arbeit an diesem Werk gut amerikanischen Klang erhält. Das Finale ist ein are a Guggenheim Fellowship (1957), and an award cello, nine operas, ballets, music for the theater and nachvollziehen. Er schrieb den ersten Satz im Frühjahr scherzo-ähnliches Divertissement, in dem Rorem from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1968). many works for chorus and orchestra, and large works 1948 in New York, danach trat eine längere Pause ein; kurioserweise zum ersten Mal das Klavier einsetzt, In 1998 Rorem was chosen “Composer of the Year” for solo voices and orchestra. erst achtzehn Monate später nahm er die Arbeit an der während er die Harfe pausieren lässt. by Musical America, and two years later he was The three numbered symphonies were written Sinfonie wieder auf. Der „Rest“ des Werkes entstand Der Komponist gab mir später folgende kurze elected President of the American Academy of Arts during a relatively short period, the first in 1950, the innerhalb eines Monats in Marokko. Zunächst Notiz: „Zu dem Zeitpunkt, als José Serebrier meine and Letters. He has received commissions from the second in 1956 and the third in 1958. I asked Rorem komponierte er den langsamen Satz, der ihn eine Zweite Sinfonie wieder zu neuem Leben erweckte, war Ford Foundation, the Lincoln Center Foundation, the to write something about the First Symphony: “There Woche lang in Anspruch nahm, dann den zweiten Satz, sie 43 Jahre lang nicht mehr gespielt worden, und es gibt Koussevitzky Foundation, the Atlanta Symphony, the are as many definitions of Symphony as there are ebenfalls in einer Woche, mit einer Woche Pause auch keine Einführungstexte zu dem Werk. So muss ich Chicago Symphony, Carnegie Hall, and many others. symphonies. In Haydn’s day it usually meant an dazwischen. Offensichtlich war er sich, wie manch mein Gedächtnis anstrengen. Das Werk entstand The conductors who have performed his music orchestral piece in four movements, of which the first anderer vor ihm, zunächst nicht sicher, in welcher zwischen Januar und März 1953 in New York City, wo include Bernstein, Masur, Mehta, Mitropoulos, was in so-called sonata form. But with Bach, and later Reihenfolge er die beiden mittleren Sätze anordnen ich einen kurzen Winter verbracht habe, außerhalb Ormandy, Previn, Reiner, Slatkin, Steinberg, and with Beethoven through Stravinsky, Symphony means sollte. - Die Erste Sinfonie ist nicht sehr oft gespielt Frankreichs, wo ich eigentlich zu dieser Zeit lebte. Es war Stokowski. whatever the composer decides. My First Symphony worden. Nach ihrer Uraufführung in Wien 1951, ein Auftragswerk von Nikolai Sokoloff (den ich nie After his return to America, after many years in could easily be called a Suite”.
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