This is one of the best and most enjoyable releases of contemporary music to come along in quite a while. Join us on Saturday, March 4 at 8 pm in King Concert Hall to hear these. The percussion section sounds awesome, as do the virtuoso horns. Toward a Splendid City by Danielpour, Good Soldiers Schweik by Kurka. The engineering is also first-rate, resulting in full bodied sound that has warmth yet plenty of detail. The amphitheater hosts socially distanced performing arts events, including concerts and comedy and magic shows. Its park-like plaza features a mix of elegant boutiques and restaurants. The orchestra plays with both precision and passion you have the feeling that every note is just as it should be. Toward The Splendid City Danielpour MIZNER PARK A highlight of downtown, Mizner Park epitomizes the Spanish-influenced vision of its namesake architect. Journey Toward a Season of Peace, Part 1 Composer Richard Danielpour discusses his new work 'Toward a Season of Peace' commissioned by Pacific Symphony for their 2012 American Composers Festival celebrating Nowruz. All of the rhythms are tight and accurate Macal’s conceptualization is assured and on the mark. Richard Danielpour and pianist Xiayin Wang give a preview and discuss his 'Bagatelles' for solo piano. Zdenek Macal, who commissioned Toward The Splendid City, conducts with authority and insight. All of the compositions are tremendously exhilarating and alive though largely tonal, this is definitely music of today. Urban Dances is a ballet commissioned by the New York City Ballet and chronicles a day in the city, beginning at high noon and ending with the sunrise as the city comes to life. Toward the Splendid City is a memory of New York, a hustling, bustling piece laced with snatches of the Beatles, Leonard Bernstein, and something like early Stravinsky. The first movement of the autobiographical Celestial Night depicts a person’s manic life in the city, followed by a spiritual awakening in the second movement as he discovers a larger, more peaceful cosmos that is bigger than his own actions. They all have something to do with New York City. 76, in Leipzig ġ881 - Brahms: "Academic Festival Overture," in Breslau, with the composer conducting ġ961 - Gunther Schuller: jazz ballet "Variants," in New York City ġ996 - Richard Danielpour: "Toward the Splendid City" for Orchestra, by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Slatkin and commissioned by the Philharmonic for its 150th Anniversary ġ840 - The climax of Franz Liszt's triumphal return to his native land occurs at the old Hungarian National Theatre, where the composer is presented with a bejeweled "Sword of Honor" Liszt delivers an impassioned speech that calls for Hungarian cultural and political independence ġ950 - RCA announces it will produce long play records as Columbia did two years earlier (RCA had unsuccessfully attempted to compete with Columbia's new 33.3-rpm LPs by issuing some of their classical catalog as multiple disc 45-rpm sets).The works on this CD were all written in the 1990s, yet they are romantic and quite accessible to any listener. Petersburg conducted by Mily Balakirev (Gregorian date: Jan. 1, at a Russian Musical Society Concert in St. 1929) is this composer’s grandson ġ869 - Symphony No. Sony 60779 On This Day Birthsġ710 - Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, in Jesi, Marche ġ720 - German composer, organist, singing teacher and writer on music Johann Friedrich Agricola, in Dobitschen, Saxe-Altenburg ġ874 - Czech composer and violinist Josef Suk, in Krecovice The famous contemporary Czech violinist and Supraphon recording artist Josef Suk (b. 1956) Toward the Splendid City Philharmonia Orchestra Zdenek Macal, cond. For Delos, its Gerard Schwarz and the fabulous. One passage, a sound-painting with string harmonics, celesta, harp, vibes and bells, was inspired by my memory of floating about New York at night on a plane and seeing the lights of the city in the mist…” Music Played in Today's Program For SONY, Macal and the Philharmonia and Zinman with the Pittsburgh. Work on the piece began in Seattle and was completed in Taos, New Mexico-and, to an extent, expresses the nostalgia I felt for the city. “‘Toward the Splendid City’ is one of the very few works I’ve written completely away from New York. While intended as sonic portrait of his hometown, Danielpour’s piece was written entirely outside of the city. On today’s date in 1996, Leonard Slatkin conducted one of these: an orchestral tribute to New York written by a native son-a work by Richard Danielpour titled “Toward the Splendid City.” In 1992, to celebrate its 150th anniversary, the New York Philharmonic commissioned many new works by leading composers and spread out their celebratory premieres over several years. Now, it may be a hotly contested statement that New York is the cultural capital of the United States, but few would contest that city’s important role in so much of our country’s musical history.
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