Nikolai and the Princess
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
In French medieval legend, the "Princesse lointaine" (Distant Princess) was the sort of perfectly unattainable woman that hapless, love-sick Knights were always devoting themselves to. It's a subject that's been explored in music several times; tonight we'll hear a suitably colorful orchestral version from Russian composer Nikolai Tcherepnin.
Chamber music by Mozart and Debussy brightens our first hour; we'll follow that up with American composer/writer/critic Virgil Thomson's Second String Quartet. Later on, the Beau Hunks take on the inventor of Symphonic Jazz, Ferde Grofe, in "Broadway at Night." We'll also hear a serious work from a composer known mostly for his film music: JoAnn Falletta conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Jerome Moross's Symphony No. 1.
Chamber music by Mozart and Debussy brightens our first hour; we'll follow that up with American composer/writer/critic Virgil Thomson's Second String Quartet. Later on, the Beau Hunks take on the inventor of Symphonic Jazz, Ferde Grofe, in "Broadway at Night." We'll also hear a serious work from a composer known mostly for his film music: JoAnn Falletta conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Jerome Moross's Symphony No. 1.
