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...
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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....
Program Note: Fauré’s Requiem
Posted March 6, 2025Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Requiem, Op. 48 Fauré’s creation of his beloved Requiem spanned almost a quarter of a century. Beginning...
Program Note: Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Posted March 6, 2025Joel Thompson (b. 1988) Seven Last Words of the Unarmed From the composer: In November of 2014, a Staten Island...
Neal’s Note: Requiem
Posted March 6, 2025When I first encountered Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed two years ago, I immediately thought, “This is...
Program Note: Boulanger’s Of A Spring Morning & Of A Sad Evening
Posted March 6, 2025Marie-Juliette Olga “Lili” Boulanger (1893–1918) Of A Spring Morning & Of A Sad Evening Lili Boulanger was born into a...
Program Note: Brahms’s Symphony No. 3
Posted January 6, 2025Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings Johannes Brahms...
