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Mozart in 1789 On October 29, 1787 â 221 years ago today â Wolfgang Mozartâs opera Don Giovanni received its world premiere in the Bohemian capital of Prague. That premiere was â and remains - Mozartâs single most triumphant first performance. In 1777, the 21 year-old Mozart wrote his father: âI have only to hear…
81 years ago today â on October 10, 1935 - George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess opened at the Alvin Theater in New York City. With a libretto by Dubose Heywood (whose play Porgy was the basis of the libretto) and Gershwinâs older brother Ira, Porgy and Bess ran a frankly unimpressive (by contemporary Broadway standards)…
This is the second of three posts celebrating the Spanish director Carlos Sauraâs spectacular âFlamenco Trilogyâ, his set of three movies in which the stories are told primarily through flamenco music and dance. My Dr. Bob Prescribes post for March 8 of this year addressed the first of these movies, Bodas de Sangre (âBlood Weddingâ)…
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) in 1903 On March 18, 1902 â 117 years ago today â Arnold Schoenbergâs Verklarte Nacht (meaning Transfigured Night) for string sextet received its premiere in his native city of Vienna. Considered today to be Schoenbergâs first âmajorâ work, the music prompted what are euphemistically called âdisruptionsâ (meaning catcalls and hisses) and…
John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 to August 12, 1992) On August 12, 1992 â 27 years ago today â the American composer, inventor, philosopher, facilitator, agent provocateur, shaman, clown, and guru, John Cage died in New York City at the age of 79. Background. My May 14, 2019 Dr. Bob Prescribes post (which can…
Jan Woloniecki We ponder - for a bit â the nature of hobbies: those avocational pursuits that run the gamut from harmless amusement to life-dominating passions. I will confess up front that I am a collector, and so Iâve got a certain insight into this hobby-thing that a non-collector/non-hobbyist will not have. My first wife,…
I am aware that Valentineâs Day is already 5 days past, but darned if the romantic warm ânâ fuzzies arenât still lingering with me like a rash from poison oak. As such, I will be excused for offering up what I will admit is a belated, but nevertheless Valentineâs Day-related post. Gratitude We should all…
On this day in 1928, Maurice Ravelâs one-movement orchestra work BolĂ©ro received its premiere at the Opera Comique in Paris with Ravel conducting. (Various sources variously describe the premiere as having taken place on November 20, November 21, and November 22! We are splitting the difference and going with the 21st.) BolĂ©ro was commissioned by…
[caption id="attachment_2757" align="alignright" width="300"] Robert Schumann in 1839[/caption] On January 8, 1843 â 175 years ago today â Robert Schumannâs magnificent Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 received its public premiere in the Saxon city of Leipzig. Dedicated to his wife, the pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, the quintet was written during what can only…
Alban Berg (1885-1935), circa 1930 We mark the posthumous premiere on April 19, 1936 â 85 years ago today - of Alban Bergâs breathtaking Violin Concerto. Its score bears a double dedication: âTo Louis Krasnerâ (1903-1995; Krasner was the violinist who commissioned and premiered the concerto) and âTo the Memory of an Angelâ (the significance…
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