Posts Tagged ‘DEBUSSY’
Comedy with an edge
A program note for the Folger Theatre’s current production of “Twelfth Night” points out that this is the last of Shakespeare’s “romantic” or “happy” comedies, and that those that followed, like “Measure for Measure” and “All’s Well That Ends Well” are less innocent and more complicated. (To those I would add “Cymbeline,” “The Winter’s Tale” […]
Monday 11/19/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos Soloist: Philip Myers, horn Mozart: Serenade No 6 in D Major, Serenata Notturna Mozart: Horn Concerto No 3 Mahler: Symphony No 1 Encore: Debussy: Nocturnes
Monday 05/28/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Violinist: Lisa Batiashvili Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture Neikrug: Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Commission) Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 Debussy: La Mer Fill: Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Tuesday 05/08/12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Ludovic Morlot Violinist: CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen Martinů: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca Debussy: La Mer Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op 35 Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major, K 467 (Jonathan Biss, piano)
It Runs in the Family
There are quite a few performers in Jim’s extended family. He’s one of eight kids, all of whom were exposed to music & theater when they were growing up, & many of our nieces & nephews are very talented in those areas. One of them, Laura Whittenberger, is attempting – with considerable success thus far! […]
Monday 02/06/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11pm This program is in memory of the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth and the 100th anniversary of Massenet’s death Conductors: Kurt Masur; Leonard Bernstein; Zubin Mehta; Joseph Stransky Soloist: Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone; Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, soprano; Nancy Maultsby, Mary Ann McCormick, mezzo-sopranos; Luciano Pavarotti, tenor; Westminster Symphonic Choir Narrator: Maria Ewing Massenet: Scènes pittoresques from […]
Thursday 12/01/11 Cleveland Orchestra
Jun Märkl, conductor Leonidas Kavakos, violin MUSSORGSKY KhovanshchinaPrelude TARREGA: “Memories of the Alhambra” SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in d, Op. 47 DEBUSSY: Printemps DEBUSSY: “Rondes de Printemps” from Images LISZT: Les Préludes
Thursday 11/24/11 Cleveland Orchestra
Knight Concert Hall, Miami Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in a, Op. 54 STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
