What Would Confucius Deduce?
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Confucius said: “Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, if its laws be good or bad, examine its music.”
What would Confucius deduce from Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man”? Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony as that very piece begins our Election Eve program. If voting is our right and obligation, music is our inspiration. Earl Robinson’s “Ballad for Americans” is sung by Paul Robeson; Robert Shewan conducts the Roger Wagner Chorale as they sing Roy Harris’s “Three Songs for Democracy” on poems by Walt Whitman; and unsung “Song of Democracy” by Howard Hanson is performed by the Eastman-Rochester Symphony, the composer himself conducting.
Aaron Jay Kernis revised his Air for violin and piano, creating a version for cello and orchestra for tonight’s cellist, Truls Mork; Eiji Oue conducts the Minnesta Orchestra. Then hold onto your seats, lest you fly away as we bring you Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite,” Leopold Stokowski conducting the Minnesota Orchestra. Oh, boy, it’s time for and oboe interlude: Henry Cowell’s Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 features oboist Humbert Lucarelli, while Darius Milhaud’s “Stanford Serenade” is brought to life by oboist Lajos Lenczes.
Our final hour is introduced as the Gregg Smith Singers present Jack Gottlieb’s “Presidential Suite,” returning our attention to the election. But you don’t want to miss the New York Philharmonic’s go at Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio italien” under Leonard Bernstein, or the Prague Quartet’s idiomatic and loving way with Dvorák’s quartet, “Cypresses.” And you must hear Santiago Rodriguez, Silver Medalist in the 1981 Van Cliburn International Competition, as he conquers Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Piano Concerto in G, George Manahan leading the Richmond Sinfonia. Sleep well, and don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
What would Confucius deduce from Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man”? Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony as that very piece begins our Election Eve program. If voting is our right and obligation, music is our inspiration. Earl Robinson’s “Ballad for Americans” is sung by Paul Robeson; Robert Shewan conducts the Roger Wagner Chorale as they sing Roy Harris’s “Three Songs for Democracy” on poems by Walt Whitman; and unsung “Song of Democracy” by Howard Hanson is performed by the Eastman-Rochester Symphony, the composer himself conducting.
Aaron Jay Kernis revised his Air for violin and piano, creating a version for cello and orchestra for tonight’s cellist, Truls Mork; Eiji Oue conducts the Minnesta Orchestra. Then hold onto your seats, lest you fly away as we bring you Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite,” Leopold Stokowski conducting the Minnesota Orchestra. Oh, boy, it’s time for and oboe interlude: Henry Cowell’s Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 features oboist Humbert Lucarelli, while Darius Milhaud’s “Stanford Serenade” is brought to life by oboist Lajos Lenczes.
Our final hour is introduced as the Gregg Smith Singers present Jack Gottlieb’s “Presidential Suite,” returning our attention to the election. But you don’t want to miss the New York Philharmonic’s go at Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio italien” under Leonard Bernstein, or the Prague Quartet’s idiomatic and loving way with Dvorák’s quartet, “Cypresses.” And you must hear Santiago Rodriguez, Silver Medalist in the 1981 Van Cliburn International Competition, as he conquers Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Piano Concerto in G, George Manahan leading the Richmond Sinfonia. Sleep well, and don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
