Rethinking the Repertoire

Rethinking the Repertoire: Postlude

June 13, 2018
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The moral should be to err in favor of the audacious. That’s what this world – and this art form – require.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #24: Charles Villiers Stanford’s “Songs of the Fleet”

June 9, 2018
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Composer Charles Villiers Stanford’s best traits were formidable indeed.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #12 – Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Violin Concerto

May 24, 2017
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has an uncanny understanding of what instruments can do and how to showcase them best.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #6: Felix Mendelssohn’s “Die erste Walpurgisnacht”

March 1, 2016
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Felix Mendelssohn remains one of the West’s most underrated composers.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #5: Leonard Bernstein’s “Songfest”

October 19, 2015
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Bernstein’s Songfest is Exhibit A in the argument that American orchestras and conductors need to champion the music of these shores.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #3: Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Symphony no. 6

October 7, 2015
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The truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs – and deserves – much wider currency.

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