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Arnold Schoenberg: My Evolution
With Schoenberg's lecture at UCLA as the narrative track, the musical illustrations he cites, and with photographs, manuscripts, and period footage, this program offers a unique picture of music struggling into the 20th century, of atonality, and of ...(more details) |
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The Development of a Conductor: Simon Rattle on the Record
The history of music is replete with prodigies who grew up to be great composers and/or performers. Here is the story of a Wunderkind who became one of the foremost conductors of our day: who learned the repertoire from avant-garde backward to the ma...(more details) |
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Taming a 100-Headed Dragon
The opening program is concerned with the development of the Middle-European tradition of conducting, from the origin of the conductor's job as time-keeper to the (though it now seems absurd) startling concept that the conductor should seek to convey...(more details) |
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Flexibility or Precision
This program focuses on the conducting force and personality of Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwangler, and Arturo Toscanini, with analyses of their styles by instrumentalists, other conductors, and musicologists, and with footage of Klemperer rehearsin...(more details) |
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The New American Orchestras
Opening with Toscanini's performance of the Forza del Destino overture, this program observes how destiny, as it were, drove many of the great European conductors to America, where they built extraordinary new orchestras in their own image: the NBC S...(more details) |
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