Listening Guide The Works GerhardDances From Don Quixote DebussyFall Of The House Of Usher KoechlinLe Buisson Ardent (Jean Christophe) HermannMoby DickChorus: And God Created Whales Ishmael: At Last Anchor Was Up Ahab: Yonder, By The Everrimming Goblet’s Rim Chorus: Hist, Let’s Have a Jig Ishmael: It Was A Clear Steel-Blue Day
Author: smoley
Buried Treasure: Literary Works, pt. 1
Listening Guide The Works MacKenzieCricket and the Hearth Overture ConstantCyrano De Bergerac Symphonic SuiteOverture Tirade Des Nez The Tower of Nesle March of the Gascoyne Cadets Roxanne’s Balcony The Siege of Arras Gazette and Cyrano’s Death BakerWashington Square: ExcerptsIn The House, and Catherine Townsend The Betrothal, and the Study The Argument, and the Promise… Continue reading Buried Treasure: Literary Works, pt. 1
FOCUS ON YOUTH: The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Benjamin Zander, Music Director
For several decades we have been subjected to claims that the purported absence of young people from classical music audiences portends the extinction of live performances, if not of the genre itself. To remedy such doomsday pronouncements, a focus on youth took hold and young performers were pressed (not unwillingly) into service, in positions sometimes… Continue reading FOCUS ON YOUTH: The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Interview: Jose Serebrier
With Lew Smoley, and Jose Serebrier
Opera Box: Another Three Tenors – Vickers pt. 2
With Lew Smoley & Howard Nevison
Opera Box: Another Three Tenors – Vickers pt. 1
With Lew Smoley & Howard Nevison
Buried Treasure: Modern String Quartets – pt. 6
Listening Guide The Works HarbisonString Quartet No. 3Beginning Interlude No. 1 Continuation Interlude No. 2 Conclusion XenakisString Quartet No. 2Tetras LachenmannString Quartet No. 3Grido FerneyhoughString Quartet No. 5 RihmString Quartet No. 8Part 1 Part 2
Buried Treasure: Modern String Quartets – pt. 5
Listening Guide The Works TippettString Quartet No. 3Grave E Sostenuto Andante Allegro Molto E Con Brio Lento Allegro Comodo HolmboeString Quartet No. 16Allegro Non Troppo Molto Vivace Adagio Presto KurtagString Quartets Op. 1: Dedicated to Marianne SteinPoco Agitato Con Molto Variationen Con Spirito Molto Ostinato Adagio NorgardString Quartet No. 8: Night Descending Like SmokePrologue,… Continue reading Buried Treasure: Modern String Quartets – pt. 5
Buried Treasure: Modern String Quartets – pt. 4
Listening Guide The Works CowellString Quartet No. 3, MosaicI II IV III IV V WirenString Quartet No. 4Calmo, Allegro Molto, Calmo Intermezzo, Moderato Intermezzo, Prestissimo Lento Allegro Molto, Lento GinasteraString Quartets No. 4Allegro Rustico Adagio Angoscioso Presto Magico Tema Libero E Rapsodico Furioso KirchnerString Quartet No. 3: For Strings and Electronic Tape MaconchyString Quartet… Continue reading Buried Treasure: Modern String Quartets – pt. 4
Buried Treasure: Modern String Quartets – pt. 3
Listening Guide The Works HillString Quartet No. 11Andantino, Lento, Allegro Adagio Allegretto SzymanowskiString Quartet No. 2Moderato Dolce E Tranquillo Vivace, Scherzando Lento, Moderato PistonString Quartets No. 5Allegro Adagio Allegro SchumanString Quartet No. 5Introduction – Larghissimo Variations – Epilogue, Tranquillo HenzeString Quartet No. 5Vierteil = 72 Atemlos, Wild Vierteil = Herzschlag Still, Entlagen Echos, Erinnerungen,… Continue reading Buried Treasure: Modern String Quartets – pt. 3