Media Summary: At the close of the nineteenth century, Finnish natives were enjoying a renaissance of their native culture, in opposition to their ... Buy me a coffee to support! As composers, we spend countless hours perfecting our music, but ... Laurence Lesser, Artistic Director of the First Monday at Jordan Hall series, takes us through the
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At the close of the nineteenth century, Finnish natives were enjoying a renaissance of their native culture, in opposition to their ... Buy me a coffee to support! As composers, we spend countless hours perfecting our music, but ... Laurence Lesser, Artistic Director of the First Monday at Jordan Hall series, takes us through the This episode traces a path from nature to Beethoven's first hint of the heroic ideal to a sense of national identity. In Einojuhani ... When Johannes Brahms wrote his first Piano Concerto, he was worried about the judgment of history. By the time he wrote his ... In this episode, special guest host Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas talks about a work Mahler called a “foaming, roaring, ...
In summer 1940, while enjoying a very busy career as a pianist and conductor, Rachmaninoff finally found time to compose while ... Audiences were outraged at Mahler's Symphony No. 1 when it premiered in 1889; they had never heard anything like it. But he ... Led by music director Kent Nagano, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra performs a
