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1 day ago · This evening’s pairing of Leonard Bernstein’s short but meaningful Chichester Psalms against the work of a composer he often championed, Mahler’s Symphony No.6, was a brilliant bit of concert programming. Written in 1965, Bernstein was pleading, in the Psalms, for peace in Israel, then – as it is now – embroiled in regional conflict ...
4 days ago · In Amsterdam with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernstein recorded Mahler's Symphonies No. 1, 4, and 9, among other works. In May 1986, the London Symphony Orchestra mounted a Bernstein Festival at the Barbican Centre, featuring a concert in which Bernstein conducted his own works. Queen Elizabeth II attended the performance.
4 days ago · Why Leonard Bernstein? He had a long conductorial love affair with Mahler's own orchestra, The Vienna Philharmonic. This course will also explore the overlap between the two. One coincidence to remember is Mahler's last position was with the New York Philharmonic, which was Bernstein’s first position fifty years later!
Jul 6, 2024 · Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony is his most sheerly delightful and accessible creation. It is written on a human scale and brings us on a clear and cogent musical and emotional journey. What’s more, this relatively traditional work still shows many of the ways in which Mahler was one of the most original and.
Jul 3, 2024 · Possibly only Leonard Bernstein is the only conductor to have achieved global recognition at such a young age – and in such a short time. Deutsche Grammophon signed him up at the age of only 24.
Jun 24, 2024 · Arnold Schoenberg’s concerts at his Society for Private Musical Performances have gone down in the annals of history for their ground-breaking programmes. Amongst the many new works was this arrangement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony by a Schoenberg pupil, Erwin Stein.
When Cooper as Lenny conducts Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony in the iconic performance at Ely Cathedral, he tries to capture how the composer and conductor became one with the work.
