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#1
Composers & Music / Re: 2024 Unsung Concerts
Monday 13 November 2023, 17:18
Quote from: eschiss1 on Tuesday 06 June 2023, 15:59Mayer's 7th symphony is in a program on April 30th and May 2 2024 @ Maison symphonique, Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare.
Before that the Metropolitan Orchestra under Yannick will be performing the Halvorsen violin concerto. This weekend!

The Conservatory Orchestra at Bard was supposed to be doing Ethel Smyth's Mass in D in December but it's not listed on the site anymore.
#2
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Friday 10 March 2023, 17:05
Quote from: modthryth on Thursday 23 February 2023, 13:03Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be performing Pejacevic's symphony this weekend! Along with ultra-rare Mussorgsky and Grieg (haha).

https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/22-23-winter/night-on-bald-mountain


Nice. When I retire I may travel around the country hearing these rare pieces. Detroit is a bit out of my range now. Bard isn't though. Gade's Hamlet Overture is on the program April 17. Unfortunately it's the Community Orchestra playing and they are not nearly as good as the TON or conservatory orchestras.
#3
I remember the concert performance. I was a bit disappointed in the music. Not top tier Saint-Saëns imo. I will see the staged performance though. Maybe I will like it better staged.
#4
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Tuesday 07 February 2023, 21:02
Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine is touring and will be playing the Thomas de Hartmann Violin Concerto at UMass on Friday 2-10. the New England Philharmonic is also having a go at in on May 7.

The Piano Concerto Op. 61 and the First Symphonic Poem Op. 50 will be played on March 18 at UMass.

The Cello Concert is on the program May 13 in Springfield MA.

There is a  website of the Thomas de Hartmann Project:
https://thomasdehartmannproject.com/upcoming-events/
#5
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Tuesday 07 February 2023, 20:44
Adolf von Henselt's Piano Concerto is on the program this weekend at Bard.
#6
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Friday 13 January 2023, 19:44
January 14th in Springfield MA they are playing William Grant Still's 4th Symphony.
#7
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Friday 06 January 2023, 20:57
Quote from: John Boyer on Friday 25 November 2022, 21:16
Quote from: scarpia on Wednesday 23 November 2022, 20:44I just got to hear the Emilie Mayer Symphony # 4 at UMass. I saw the debate over her worth. I thought it was an excellent work.
Amherst or Boston?
Amherst.

This Sunday I get to hear a piece by Teresa Carreño at Sanders in Cambridge. Their website describes it :

"The Venezuelan-American composer Teresa Carreño wrote a Romantic take on the Classical suite during a stay in the Alps. Her intoxicating Serenade for strings conveys all the charm of the Austrian lakeside village where it was written."
#8
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Wednesday 23 November 2022, 20:44
Max Bruch's Symphony No. 3 is coming up this winter in Concord. Boston Symphony is doing the Stenhammar Serenade. I just got to hear the Emilie Mayer Symphony # 4 at UMass. I saw the debate over her worth. I thought it was an excellent work.
#9
Composers & Music / Re: Léon Boëllmann
Friday 28 October 2022, 20:30
I just got the CD. I had amazon points to use. I will listen tonight.
#10
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Friday 28 October 2022, 20:21
just fund out that the same day Botstein is doing Kauder there is a performance of the Volkmann Symphony in Waltham. Bummer! Botstein's TON orchestra is better that Waltham's community orchestra so the decision is pretty easy.

I did some searching and found a Symphony Pro Musica that is performing Chadwick's Jubilee on 11/5 and 11/6. I don't know them. Their facebook page says they are a high-level, ambitious volunteer community orchestra. I will probably check it out. The alternative is the Verdi Requiem in Cambridge.
#11
Composers & Music / Re: Michael Ponti (1937-2022)
Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:39
I loved his recordings. Even if they sounded crude they had a lot of spirit. His recording of the Lyapunov Ukrainian Rhapsody is still my favorite.

#12
Composers & Music / Léon Boëllmann
Tuesday 18 October 2022, 20:17
I just heard his Variations Symphoniques for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 23 on youtube. Terrible sound quality though. Too bad. It could use a good modern recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-bt8hiAoQ

His best-known composition is Suite gothique, which is a staple of the organ repertoire, especially its concluding Toccata. Is is? I don't know organ except Bach and Widor though.  Does that make him sung? Looks like there is a recording of it with the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse on the Fuga Libera label.
#13
Composers & Music / Re: 2023 Unsung Concerts
Tuesday 18 October 2022, 19:53
Botstein programmed Suk's Fantastic Scherzo last month at a TON concert at Bard. Later this month is Walter Braunfels' Sinfonia brevis and Hugo Kauder's Symphony No. 1. I never heard of Kauder. The symphony was composed between 1920 and 1921 so it's a bit too modern for this forum. The idiom is supposed to be conservative so I have hope it will be good.

Black composers are getting heard - Petite suite de concert, Op. 77 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was played at the Crane school a couple of weeks ago. William Grant Still's 4th Symphony is on the program for the Springfield Symphony in January. Also Florence Price's Piano Concerto which I heard at SPAC in August. Black + woman = highly programmable these days. The Price 3rd Symphony was on the program last weekend in Lexington MA.

Louise Farrenc Symphony # 3 is also coming up in Springfield. The Symphony # 1 was played in Montreal by the Metropolitan Orchestra and will also be played by the bigger OSM later.

Some good old Russian music is on the program in Gatineau Quebec next month - the Arensky Symphony # 1.

Edit - I forgot to mention the Amy Beach Symphony. Nashua has it in their repertoire and I've heard them play it twice. UMass orchestra will tackle it tomorrow.  They usually play pretty well.
#14
Composers & Music / Re: 2022 Unsung Concerts
Thursday 14 July 2022, 20:01
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is going to up in Quebec Saturday to play Étienne Nicolas Méhul's Symphony No. 1 in G minor. Bard is doing Ferruccio Busoni's Piano Concerto in C Major later this summer along with the prelude to Paderewski's  opera Manru.
#15
I just got a cheap used copy at a shop in Montreal. Good late romantic work. Apparently there is a ballet sequence that was cut from this performance. At least that's what the reviewer on Amazon says. It looks like he knows a lot. I looked up Ivan Zajc and can't find much. Wii says this :
QuoteZajc was an exceptionally prolific composer as evidenced by almost 1000 works, from Op. 234 to Op. 1202, produced during his time in Zagreb. Included in this number are Mislav (1870), Ban Leget (1872), his masterpiece Nikola Šubić Zrinski (1876), and Lizinka (1878), in addition to operettas, musical comedies, cantatas, songs and choral compositions, concerti, chamber music, and many other works.
His Symphony is on youtube and it's not bad. Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra with
Robert Homen, conductor. Not the best sounding band I've heard though.