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Grand Opera House (originally âWadeâs Opera Houseâ), San Francisco, in 1881 We mark the final San Francisco performance - on the evening of Tuesday, April 17, 1906, 117 years ago today â of the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (1874-1921). That performance at the no longer extant Grand Opera House at No. 2 Mission Street…
[caption id="attachment_2026" align="alignright" width="209"] Giuseppe Verdi, circa 1855[/caption] On March 6, 1853 â 164 years ago today â Giuseppe Verdiâs opera La Traviata received its first performance at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The two years between March of 1851 and March of 1853 saw the premieres of three operas by Giuseppe Verdi that…
Richard Wagnerâs hand-written manuscript of the first page of the overture to his opera The Flying Dutchman (1842); the writing in red ink is a note from Wagner to his publisher If we want to own a facsimile of one of Wagnerâs handwritten, manuscript scores, weâve got limited options, because a great many of Wagnerâs…
Peter Mennin (1923-1983) Peter Mennin was a symphonist: of his 26 works, 9 were symphonies. (Letâs get this âthe curse of the 9-thingâ out of the way here and now. Mennin completed his Ninth Symphony in 1981, at the age of 58. In 1982, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died on June 17,…
Question: is it true that only by working directly with a composer can an ensemble deliver a âdefinitiveâ performance? Answer: no. Composer supervision guarantees nothing. Beethoven, for one, oversaw the premieres of every one of his nine symphonies (though the deaf Beethovenâs âoversightâ of his Ninth Symphony in 1824 was much more a hindrance than…
[caption id="attachment_3663" align="alignright" width="296"] Leo Smit circa 1918[/caption] Today we remember and honor the Dutch composer Leo Smit, who was born on May 14, 1900 â 118 years ago today â in Amsterdam. As regular readers of this blog are aware, while I opine (and even bloviate) with fair regularity, I rarely get personal in…
Audio tapes: how quaint! I recorded my first course for The Teaching Company (now branded as âThe Great Coursesâ) in May of 1993. That was the first edition of How to Listen to and Understand Great Music. To date, Iâve recorded 666 forty-five minute lectures for The Teaching Company/The Great Courses, and virtually every single…
It Happens Every Spring Five days ago, on March 30, 2023, something took place that hadnât happened since 1968, 55 years ago: major league baseballâs Opening Day took place with all thirty teams starting their season on the same day. I am aware that this year, spring technically began on March 20, 2023. But letâs…
[caption id="attachment_1763" align="alignright" width="231"] Shostakovich on the cover of Time Magazine, July 20, 1942, wearing his firemanâs helmet during the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).[/caption]Last weekâs âMusic History Mondayâ was about the premiere of Dmitri Shostakovichâs Symphony No. 13 on December 18, 1962 and the official Soviet silence that greeted that premiere on December 19,…
George Gershwin (1898-1937) Two weeks ago, my Dr. Bob Prescribes post featured the guitarist Tommy Emmanuel, despite the fact that it would have been entirely appropriate â given the Music History Monday post the day before on Gluckâs Orfeo ed Euridice - to feature a post on that opera. Given yesterdayâs Music History Monday post…
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