A Birthday: André Previn
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
André Previn, whose birthday it is (1929), starts us out this evening as he plays the piano for violinist Gil Shaham; together they present George Gershwin’s Prelude No. 3.
We’ll hear more from Mr. Previn later, in his role as composer and conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic; they are joined by several soloists in a performance of Previn’s own “Diversions.” The distinguished clarinetist, Sabine Meyer, is soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622, supported by the Staatskapelle Dresden under Hans Vonk. Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Staatskapelle at Carnegie on April 13 and 14, as they bring New York audiences both Brahms and Beethoven.
You won’t want to miss the “Van Gogh Opera” by Michael Gordon of Bang-on-a-Can fame, which can be heard at Kaufman Center’s Merkin Hall on April 13th. Texts are derived from letters Van Gogh wrote his brother Theo. Meanwhile, stay tuned for Gordon’s electronically enhanced “Industry,” played by cellist Madeleine Shapiro.
As the liner notes say, Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Atmospheres” is “space-music par excellence,” music in which Ligeti “abandons such traditional anchors as melody, harmony, and rhythm for a succession of soaring, lonely clusters.” You heard it if you saw Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Hear it again tonight as Bernstein leads the New York Philharmonic.
We’ll hear more from Mr. Previn later, in his role as composer and conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic; they are joined by several soloists in a performance of Previn’s own “Diversions.” The distinguished clarinetist, Sabine Meyer, is soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622, supported by the Staatskapelle Dresden under Hans Vonk. Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Staatskapelle at Carnegie on April 13 and 14, as they bring New York audiences both Brahms and Beethoven.
You won’t want to miss the “Van Gogh Opera” by Michael Gordon of Bang-on-a-Can fame, which can be heard at Kaufman Center’s Merkin Hall on April 13th. Texts are derived from letters Van Gogh wrote his brother Theo. Meanwhile, stay tuned for Gordon’s electronically enhanced “Industry,” played by cellist Madeleine Shapiro.
As the liner notes say, Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Atmospheres” is “space-music par excellence,” music in which Ligeti “abandons such traditional anchors as melody, harmony, and rhythm for a succession of soaring, lonely clusters.” You heard it if you saw Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Hear it again tonight as Bernstein leads the New York Philharmonic.
