Birthday de deux
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Two great (but completely different) composers were born on this date: Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1683 and Dmitri Shostakovich in 1906. We'll celebrate with Rameau's "La Laborde" (featuring violinist Isaac Stern) and Shostakovich's rarely-heard Chamber Symphony in C Minor (Dennis Russell Davies leads the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra).
A fiery item on the menu tonight is Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra from Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony; pianist Pamela Ross keeps the mood going with Robert Schumann's musical postcard, "Carnival Jest from Vienna." We'll also hear a performance of Jean Sibelius's Third Symphony, which premiered in Helsinki on this day in 1907.
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A fiery item on the menu tonight is Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra from Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony; pianist Pamela Ross keeps the mood going with Robert Schumann's musical postcard, "Carnival Jest from Vienna." We'll also hear a performance of Jean Sibelius's Third Symphony, which premiered in Helsinki on this day in 1907.
Are you New York's Biggest Beethoven Fan?
Tell us in 250 words or less why your fanatical devotion to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven qualifies you as New York's Biggest Beethoven Fan, and win a chance to immerse yourself in the world of Beethoven!
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