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The Los Angeles Philharmonic plays a World Premiere of Stephen Hartke’s Symphony No. 4
Organist Cameron Carpenter travels with his own organ. he brings it to LA to play with the Philharmonic in a World Premiere.
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Organist Cameron Carpenter travels with his own organ. he brings it to LA to play with the Philharmonic in a World Premiere.
Gershwin travelled to Paris more than once in the 1920s; the city served as the inspiration for the famous "An American in Paris".
Schumann's 2nd is one of those works with a slight numbering confusion, as it was the third symphony completed; the first was an early version of what became the 4th Symphony, the second was published as the Symphony No. 1.
A 2nd Symphony from Milwaukee, a musical depiction of a person from the USA in Paris, a World Premier for Organ and Orchestra (!), and more.
The Belcea Quartet won the Gramophone Award for Best Debut Recording in 2001. Hear them play a late string quartet by Haydn on tonight's "Evening Concert".
Pianist Jeffrey Kahane leads the NY Philharmonic from the piano bench in two of Mozart's 20+ piano concertos.
Tonight you'll hear Esa-Pekka Salonen lead the LA Philharmonic in Beethoven's really lenghty (not one note too many, though!) 3rd Symphony.
Perhaps someone will write a pHd on "Why is it that so often the 5th Symphony of many a famous composer is a masterpiece and often an iconic work?"
It is more than apocrypha to say that Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" are an attempt to capture the visual artwork of the "Exhibition", artwork of his recently deceased friend Viktor Hartmann.
Mussorgsky's "Pictures" from Milwaukee; Nielsen's 5th from Chicago; Beethoven's 3rd from LA, and more.