The Evening Concert

The 101st Symphony by Haydn dates from 1793-4. Marc-Andre Hamelin dates from 1961. He'll play the Keyboard Concerto [No.11] [date unknown] on tonight's "Evening Concert".

Is it whimsy, intent, synchronicity, irony, or some other circumstance when a composer 'self-references' their work by quoting music they wrote? The third movement of Mozart's 25th Piano Concerto uses a melody from his opera Idomeneo.

It's not just apocrypha to relate that Beethoven loved the "Woods". He carried a notebook with him so as to jot down (music) ideas as they came to him on his walks. The 6th Symphony contains some of those ideas....

The "and more" = an all-Haydn concert from May 2015 from the Cleveland Orchestra, Blitzstein's rarely heard "Airborne" Symphony, and even more on this week's "Evening Concert"

"George Crumb Lives!" There's that old joke about how a dead composer "lives".....Mr. Crumb is not one of those because he is alive and still composing.

There is the alliteration of their first names on the letter :B". After that, the similarities are "slim-to-none". Brahms Symphony #4 is a cornerstone of late 19th century symphonies. Berio's "Sinfonia" is an iconic work from the late 1960s for orchestra and eight amplified voices....compare and contrast them by tuning in tonight at 7:00 for the "Evening Concert".

The Shostakovich "1st Piano Concerto" features a trumpet obbligato, and, as a result, the work is sometimes referred to as the "Concerto for Piano and Trumpet". If you know the work, or you've never heard it, hear it tonight at 7:00 on the "Evening Concert".

October 16, 1912. I remember it well (jest!). It was the day of the premiere of the Schoenberg melodrama "Pierrot Luanire". It was September 28, 1918 for the premiere of "A Soldier's Tale" by Stravinsky.

The Third Symphony of Beethoven bears the title "Eroica" (Heroic). There are many great stories, some true, some not, about how he came to title it thusly.

Beethoven, Brahms, George Crumb, Stravinsky, Schoenberg: an eclectic week on the "Evening Concert"