In Slap In The Face To Sharon Rockefeller's Classical WETA-FM Lite, Philadephia Orchestra Performs Schoenberg's Proto-Modern Chamber Symphony
Who would have thought that the Philadelphia Orchestra would have offered more adventurous, and intelligent, programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, under sponsorship of the Washington Performing Arts Society, than at their home at Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Arts, in Philadelphia?
On May 10-12, 2007, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under conductor Christoph Eschenbach and featuring baritone Matthias Goerne, performed the following program:
BEETHOVEN Overture to Egmont
SCHUBERT Songs orchestrated by Brahms, Reger, and Webern
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
Perhaps aware that living classical music is under assault in the Nation's Capital, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under conductor Christoph Eschenbach and featuring baritone Matthias Goerne, offered the following exciting, intellectually satisfying program on Sunday afternoon, June 3, 2007, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts:
SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony Opus 9
SCHUBERT Songs orchestrated by Brahms, Reger, and Webern
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
And WPAS is to be applauded for allowing its visiting American orchestras, next season 2007-08, to program modern and American classical works -- especially at a time when Sharon Rockefeller's new Classical WETA-FM Lite, bans all modern classical music and all music by living American classical composers. Next season, the Cleveland Orchestra, under Franz Welser-Most, is offering "Guide to Strange Places" by living American classical composer John Adams; and the Philadelphia Orchestra, returning under the baton of James Conlon, is programming another work on the Classical WETA-FM Lite proscribed list of modern and American classical music, Edgard Varèse's "Ameriques."
Sharon Rockefeller's reactionary new Classical WETA-FM Lite, in the Nation's Capital.
Living American Classical composer John Adams is welcome at the National Science Foundation, in Washington, D.C.; but not on the new Classical WETA-FM Lite, in the Nations Capital.
[Click to enlarge image.]
Photo credit: (c) National Science Foundation. With thanks.
On May 10-12, 2007, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under conductor Christoph Eschenbach and featuring baritone Matthias Goerne, performed the following program:
BEETHOVEN Overture to Egmont
SCHUBERT Songs orchestrated by Brahms, Reger, and Webern
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
Perhaps aware that living classical music is under assault in the Nation's Capital, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under conductor Christoph Eschenbach and featuring baritone Matthias Goerne, offered the following exciting, intellectually satisfying program on Sunday afternoon, June 3, 2007, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts:
SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony Opus 9
SCHUBERT Songs orchestrated by Brahms, Reger, and Webern
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
And WPAS is to be applauded for allowing its visiting American orchestras, next season 2007-08, to program modern and American classical works -- especially at a time when Sharon Rockefeller's new Classical WETA-FM Lite, bans all modern classical music and all music by living American classical composers. Next season, the Cleveland Orchestra, under Franz Welser-Most, is offering "Guide to Strange Places" by living American classical composer John Adams; and the Philadelphia Orchestra, returning under the baton of James Conlon, is programming another work on the Classical WETA-FM Lite proscribed list of modern and American classical music, Edgard Varèse's "Ameriques."
Sharon Rockefeller's reactionary new Classical WETA-FM Lite, in the Nation's Capital.
Living American Classical composer John Adams is welcome at the National Science Foundation, in Washington, D.C.; but not on the new Classical WETA-FM Lite, in the Nations Capital.
[Click to enlarge image.]
Photo credit: (c) National Science Foundation. With thanks.
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