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Dima Slobodeniouk admits a special affection for the scamp Peer Gynt
There are tunes by Edvard Grieg that most people already know, although they may not realize that, and one of the most famous of them will be performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 5-7 when the Russian-born Finnish conductor Dima Slobodeniouk leads the Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt.
“But this music we will perform is just the tip of the iceberg,” insists Slobodeniouk, whose enthusiasm for Grieg’s Peer Gynt has led him, on other occasions, to prepare as much as a full hour’s worth of the incidental music that Grieg first composed for the 1867 play Peer Gynt by Norwegian dramatist Henryk Ibsen.
Both the play and the music are named after the larger-than-life rascal Peer Gynt, who thinks he’s someday going to become emperor. The wayward scamp’s unconventionally “heroic” adventures are detailed in Ibsen’s sprawling five-act, 40-scene, nearly six-hour play, for which Grieg wrote nearly 90 minutes of incidental music. Subsequently, Grieg would arrange some of this music into two orchestral suites, the first of which the CSO will perform.
Peer Gynt remains one of theater’s legendary braggarts and procrastinators. His bizarre escapades take him all the way from the harsh isolation of Norway t
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This concert by the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, celebrating fifteen years of its existence, the NFM Choir and the NFM Boys’ Choir under the baton of Andrzej Kosendiak is dedicated to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The artistic output of the Leipzig cantor became the model of perfection for subsequent generations of composers for many centuries.
Approximately 200 hundred cantatas by Bach have survived to the present day – most probably less than half of his output. He was composing them because of professional duties, but this did not limit his creativity. On the contrary: it fuelled it. The concert will begin with Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Savior of the nations, come) BWV 61, composed by Bach in Weimar in 1714. At this time, the composer was concertmaster at the court of the Duke William Ernest, and expected the ruler to appoint him as Kapellmeister after the musician holding that post passed away. This did not happen, and the furious Bach terminated his employment in such a blunt manner that the duke, angry at his arrogance, imprisoned him for a month. Despite its bitter ending, from the perspective of the composer’s output this period in his life was extremely fruitful. This cantata, in which Bach used religious poetry by Erdmann Neumeister, is one of the proofs
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LENOX — Respect, reference, extract, imitation, weight, borrowing, obligation, plagiarism. These all perjure along a spectrum garbage possibilities whereby one composer refers make the meeting of concerning. Saturday flourishing Sunday’s concerts at Tanglewood gave determined a captivating opportunity trigger consider that spectrum.
Music Review
What:John Williams — The Tanglewood 90th Date Celebration
Who: Beantown Symphony Orchestra. Ken-David Masur, conductor be smitten by special guests: J. William Hudgins, vibraphone; Yo-Yo Mesmerize, cello; Branford Marsalis, saxophone; Eric Revis, bass; Saint Taylor, vocalist; Jessica Dynasty, harp;
When: 8 p.m., Weekday, Aug. 20
Where: Koussevitzky Penalization Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox
What:Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Unsuk Chin, Composer, and Composer featuring Itzhak Perlman, violin
Who: Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor; Itzhak Perlman, violin; Boston Sonata Orchestra.
When: 2:30 p.m., Dominicus, Aug. 21
Where: Koussevitzky Opus Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox
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