Months after the event(which happened on the exact date in question), PBS airs the Tanglewood Festival's Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990) Centennial Celebration, and it's a pretty fine foray into the composer-conductor-musicans's varied output, interests, and influences ...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus
The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
August 25, 2018
Koussevitsky Music Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA
Andris Nelson, Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart,
Michael Tilson Thomas, and John Williams, conducting
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Candide (1956)
Overture
Serenade (After Plato's Symposium) (1954)
I. Phaedrus: Pausanias (Lento–Allegro)
Midori, Violin / Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Mass (1971)
Meditation No. 3
Kian Soltani, cello
Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish") (1963)
II. Din-Torah - Kaddish 2
Nadine Sierra, soprano
West Side Story (1957)
Prologue
Maria
A Boy Like That – I Have a Love
Tonight (Quintet)
Isabel Leonard, Jessica Vosk, Tony Yazbeck, vocalists
Joshua Bergasse, choreography
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1899)
I. Der Schildwache Nachtlied (1892)
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Appalachian Spring (1944)
Finale
John Williams (b. 1932)
Highwood’s Ghost: An Encounter, (2018)
Jessica Zhou, harp / Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") (1894)
Nadine Sierra, soprano / Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story
Somewhere
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While Mass: Meditation 3 is rather a medley of motives from the work, used as a vehicle for solo cello et al, and one might have preferred an all-Bernstein compositional array including music from Chichester Psalms (1965), etc. -- the program is overall a very worthy endeavor, taken in here on the 48th day of fall, high down 2 to 57,
Megan over for a visit,
brief
errands
out,
other musical videos in the mix (George Duning, 1908-200 - 3:10 to Yuma, 1957). Edit page 5 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act IV, finish composition of
The Decameron, Op. 289 (2018)
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day - Novel V - Madonna Dianora craves of Messer Ansaldo a garden [9 pages total],
begin
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290 (2018)
V. Unkempt Gigue (Images from the Stark Land),
and additionally orchestrate (pages 11 and 7 respectively)
Ravel Orchestrations, Op. 291 (2018)
I. Berceuse on the Name of Gabriel Faure (after Mother Goose Suite: I-II)]
Satie Orchestrations, Op. 292 (2018)
I. Secular and Instantaneous Hours: I. Obstacles Venieux (after Parade)
