The Evening Concert

Conductor Lorin Maazel passed away July 13, 2014 at the age of 84. Tonight's "New York Philharmonic This Week" is a retrospective of his career.

In our culture Hollywood is the destination for many who want to be involved with the "art that includes all arts" (motion pictures). In Mozart's day it was Vienna and the world of opera (opera, in it's time, was -,maybe still yet! - the  "art that includes all arts").

Take two cellos plus orchestra, title it "Antidotum Tarantulae XXI" and wonder like I do what that sounds like!

It's another concert in from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra that links Beethoven with American composer John Adams. Tune in find out what those links are.

Mozart wrote the "Ave verum corpus in 1791. Beethoven's 7th Symphony was written twenty years later, 1811 - 1812. Schubert's 3rd Symphony was written only four years after Beethoven's 7th during the summer of 1815, 200 years ago this year.  

At 7:00 it's 'Music for Winds" by French composers on "The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center", followed at 8:00 by the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival: music of Busoni, Schumann and Schubert.

Brahms and Tchaikovsky share a May 7th birthdate, although they are seven years apart: 1833 for Brahms, 1840 for Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky died in 1893 at the age of 53, Brahms in 1897, just shy of his 64th birthday. Their music shares a certain sensibility of deeply running passion.

Mozart's 20th Piano Concerto in D Minor is now a standard piece in the repertoire. In it's day, though it was considered revolutionary.

Common wisdom is that the Margrave (of Brandenburg) never bothered to perform these fabulous works [Bach's Brandenburg Concertos], and perhaps never even examined the score.

Saxophone Concerto? Now that's different!