Child's Play
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Dimitri Kabalevsky’s suite “The Comedians” is derived from music for a children’s play depicting the carefree life of an itinerant company of buffoons. For the young of every age.
From Russia we head to Iberia, as we listen to that movement from Debussy’s “Images for Orchestra,” Leonard Bernstein conducting the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Celia. How Debussy could so magically evoke Spain without having spent more than an afternoon in the country is a mystery.
More music for the child in all of us ensues as we visit “The Magic Toyshop” as envisioned by Respighi (who borrowed from tunes by Rossini); Antonio Janigro conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
From Russia we head to Iberia, as we listen to that movement from Debussy’s “Images for Orchestra,” Leonard Bernstein conducting the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Celia. How Debussy could so magically evoke Spain without having spent more than an afternoon in the country is a mystery.
More music for the child in all of us ensues as we visit “The Magic Toyshop” as envisioned by Respighi (who borrowed from tunes by Rossini); Antonio Janigro conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
