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| Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
August 19, 2022 -- Porgy and Bess Selections from Porgy and Bess performed by marvelous voices under the baton of Andres Orozco-Estrada conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
A Gershwin Masterpiece About 32 years ago, LPR attended a Saturday morning Tanglewood rehearsal of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, conducted by Leornard Bernstein. This was his final appearance as a conductor. He was ill at the time and passed away a few months later. LPR was amazed to witness how the music gave strengthened Maestro Bernstein.. He sat in a chair for most of the rehearsal, but, at various points during the last movement, the score lifted him from the chair -- music transcending physical illness. Here is the maestro leading the New York Philharmonic and performing as soloist, fourteen years earlier
Leonard Bernstein Conducts Bernstein 1985, Osaka, The Israeli Philharmonic, The West Side Story Dances Suite |
Khatia Buniatishvili for Super Bowl Halftime New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick recently suggested that the NFL bring some class to the Super Bowl halftime show by having the great international pianist Khatia Buniatishvili perform Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," with a symphony orchestra, at halftime of the game that LPR hopes will pit the Buffalo Bills against Tom Brady's team. Here is a link of Ms. Buniatishvili playing Gershwin -- Commissioner Goodell, please take notice.
As Promised 8/5 Dima Slobodeniouk Leading the Sinfonica de Galicia in Mahler's Third Symphony
A Bernstein Lecture on Beethoven This link was televised more then 70 years ago, when television still had educational possibilities. The host is Alistair Cooke. The program, NBC's Omnibus. |
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