A Birthday: Maurice Ravel
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Maurice Ravel (who was born this day in 1875) called his (in)famous Bolero an experiment “Consisting wholly of orchestral tissue without music.” No wonder it is so well known!
He went on to describe it as “one very long, gradual crescendo [with] no contrasts [and] practically no invention except in the plan and the manner of the execution.” Listen to Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony as the instruments join in one by one till the entire group is playing at the end. The evening will include a whole bunch of boleros, including one by Chopin and one by Beethoven. Speaking of Beethoven, Bernstein conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in his Symphony No. 6, a.k.a. the “Pastoral,” during hour two. The Vienna Symphony, one of the greatest bands in the world, can be heard at Carnegie Hall from March 11th through the 13th. We’ll be broadcasting the concert of the 11th live, so if you want to hear them in comfort at home, tune in then.
Richard Auldon Clark conducts the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and the New York Choral Society as they perform Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana.” Familiar and not-so-familiar Frost poems provide the texts: “The Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and “Come In” are just a few. Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 4 can be heard here this evening, essayed by the Alban Berg Quartet. Rihm’s “Two Other Movements,” a New York Philharmonic commission, will receive its premier performances at Avery Fischer on March 10, 11, 12, and 15.
He went on to describe it as “one very long, gradual crescendo [with] no contrasts [and] practically no invention except in the plan and the manner of the execution.” Listen to Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony as the instruments join in one by one till the entire group is playing at the end. The evening will include a whole bunch of boleros, including one by Chopin and one by Beethoven. Speaking of Beethoven, Bernstein conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in his Symphony No. 6, a.k.a. the “Pastoral,” during hour two. The Vienna Symphony, one of the greatest bands in the world, can be heard at Carnegie Hall from March 11th through the 13th. We’ll be broadcasting the concert of the 11th live, so if you want to hear them in comfort at home, tune in then.
Richard Auldon Clark conducts the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and the New York Choral Society as they perform Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana.” Familiar and not-so-familiar Frost poems provide the texts: “The Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and “Come In” are just a few. Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 4 can be heard here this evening, essayed by the Alban Berg Quartet. Rihm’s “Two Other Movements,” a New York Philharmonic commission, will receive its premier performances at Avery Fischer on March 10, 11, 12, and 15.
