America of the 1950s was a very different place than that of the 1940s. Gone were the New Deal politics of Franklin Roosevelt and the...
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Category: Program Notes
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Church Street Serenade (2005)
Aaron Copland and Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941) have several things in common: both were born and raised in New York—Copland in the city and Hailstork...
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Appalachian Spring: Ballet for Martha (1944)
What is it about Copland’s music that evokes such feelings of nationalism and nostalgia? Some would point to the composer’s use of open intervals of...
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Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Date of Composition: 1808 Duration: 32 minutes Beethoven’s fifth symphony is the iconic work of classical music. It pervades the whole world of symbols and...
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Sholem Aleichem Rov Feidman!
Date of Composition: 2004 Duration: 5 minutes This delightful work is nothing less than an inspired concert tribute to the amazing tradition of klezmer clarinet. ...
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Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a from Peter Grimes
Date of Composition: 1945 Duration: 16 minutes Benjamin Britten is one of the last century’s most respected composers, and unquestionably the most influential and admired...
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Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56A
Date of Composition: 1873 Duration: 17 minutes Good things often come in modest packages, and this work is unquestionably an example of that rule. We...
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Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Date of Composition: 1845 Duration: 21 minutes This work was Robert Schumann’s first piano concerto, the best of the lot, and deservedly one of the...
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Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7
Date of Composition: 1835-36 Duration: 21 minutes According to Clara Wieck Schumann, “I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up...