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- Sunday, May 4, 2014 2:00pm
The Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street
New York, NY
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“Karelia” Suite
Posted on October 29, 2012 | No CommentsSibelius most well-known work. -
Pezzo Capriccioso
Posted on June 21, 2012 | No CommentsTchaikovsky's work for 'cello and orchestra. -
Symphony No. 2 in D Major
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Waltz on Unchanged Theme ‘Tati-Tati’
Posted on June 17, 2012 | No CommentsNotes to come. -
Orchestral Suite No. 4, “Mozartiana”
Posted on June 16, 2012 | No CommentsListen in to the live recording. -
“La Forza Del Destino” Overture
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“New World” Symphony
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsCzech composer Antonin Dvořák was born in a village near Prague. Despite his father’s wishes for him to continue in the family business and become a butcher, Dvořák pursued his... -
“Tragic” Overture
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsComposed in the fall of 1880 as a companion to the Academic Festival Overture. -
Symphony No. 4 in Bb Major
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsBeethoven composed his Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 in the summer and the fall of 1806. 1806 was one of the most productive years of Beethoven’s entire... -
Pelleas et Melisande
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsFour great composers wrote music inspired by Maeterlinck’s masterpiece. -
Haydn Variations
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe third of the “Three B’s” (along with Bach and Beethoven), Brahms adhered to the use of classical forms in his works but dramatically altered the musical landscape in terms... -
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Posted on August 7, 2011 | 1 CommentTchaikovsky composed the Variations on a Rococo Theme in December of 1876, amidst the turmoil of a failed opera production in St. Petersburg and a particularly nasty review in Vienna... -
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Posted on March 9, 2011 | No CommentsDvořák composed this work as part of his cycle of “Gypsy Songs” for voice and piano. This song, with its wistful and longing melody, has become famous in its own... -
Czech Suite
Posted on March 9, 2011 | No CommentsThe Czech Suite was one of several works Dvořák composed for small orchestra between 1875 and 1879 (the others being his masterful string and wind serenades). -
Symphonie Fantastique
Posted on February 21, 2011 | No CommentsThis monumental work was composed by Berlioz in 1830, just a few years after Beethoven’s death. At that time, Berlioz was an unknown 26-year composer who had fallen madly in... -
Concerto for Trombone
Posted on February 21, 2011 | No CommentsRimsky-Korsakov is best known for large-scale works – operas and symphonies, as well as chamber works, which are staples of Russian romantic music. Less-well known, however, is that he initially... -
Ride of the Valkyries
Posted on February 21, 2011 | No CommentsInstantly recognizable, this work is taken from Wagner’s opera “The Valkyries,” his second opera in the Ring cycle. The “Ride” is a musical tone poem in which the Valkyries –... -
Symphony in D Minor
Posted on February 21, 2011 | No CommentsCésar Franck was 66 when he completed the Symphony in D minor, his only symphony. It premiered the next year, on February 17, 1889, nine months before the composer’s death.... -
“Coriolan” Overture
Posted on February 6, 2011 | No CommentsBeethoven was a great admirer of Shakespeare’s plays, and according to the composer’s secretary, Anton Schindler, planned to compose an opera based on Macbeth. Unfortunately, such a plan never materialized... -
“Leonore” Overture No. 3
Posted on May 2, 2010 | No CommentsBeethoven wrote only one opera, Fidelio (originally entitled Leonore). It is the story of Florestan, a young man who is unjustly imprisoned. His wife, Leonore, disguised as a young man,...
