Program Note: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2
Posted September 16, 2025Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) COMPOSED: 1900–1901 PREMIERE: November 9, 1901; Moscow, Russia...
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Program Note: Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony
Posted September 16, 2025Symphony No. 4, Op. 29, “The Inextinguishable” Carl Nielsen (1865–1931) COMPOSED: 1915–1916 PREMIERE: January 1, 1916; Copenhagen, Denmark LAST DPO...
Program Note: Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3
Posted June 10, 2025Instrumentation: 3 flutes (+ piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets,...
Program Note: Skye’s Nova Plexus
Posted June 10, 2025Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down...
Program Note: Handel’s Organ Concerto No. 13 in F Major
Posted June 10, 2025Instrumentation: Organ solo, 2 oboes, strings George Frideric Handel (Born in Halle, Germany in 1685; died in London in 1759)...
Program Note: Stravinsky’s Petrushka
Posted April 14, 2025Igor Stravinsky (Born in Lomonosov (near St. Petersburg), Russia in 1882; died in New York in 1971) Petrushka – Burlesque...
Program Note: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
Posted April 14, 2025Antonin Dvořák (Born near Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) in 1841; died in Prague in 1904) Cello Concerto in B...
Program Note: Mozart’s Overture from Don Giovanni
Posted April 14, 2025Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg; died December 5, 1791 in Vienna) Overture to Don Giovanni, K....
