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The 86-year-old Kyiv native, living in exile in Berlin, has a new album of symphonic works that explores the idea of reminiscence.
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The composer and percussionist was "shocked beyond belief" after hearing the news on Monday afternoon.
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Two versions of a story that’s thousands of years old, and you can take your pick this week on WFIT.
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Music opinionator Fran Hoepfner says she hears "a lot of hope" in the symphony even though the composer tragically lived a short life.
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It’s easy for us to look back to the days of Bach and Handel and close that period off as the end of the Baroque era, and then to focus on the mature Mozart and Haydn — and then Beethoven — as the start of something wholly new. This week we’ll look at some of the music that bridged the ages of these giants: works from the Mannheim School, the Galants, and the other pre-classicists.
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When is a prelude not a prelude? When it doesn’t lead to something else? Apparently not. Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Scriabin, and other composers wrote heaps of preludes that are actually preludes to nothing. We’ll look at some of these this week in a program of preludes.
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We don’t know why Franz Schubert left his Eighth Symphony unfinished 200 years ago. The reasons are probably quite commonplace, but coupled with the composer’s tragic life story the tale has grown greater than the sum of its parts in the public imagination.
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Before leaving his hometown of Salzburg, Mozart wrote the first of his three great masses, the only one he actually finished, the Coronation Mass in C major. We’ll hear it this Sunday.
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The music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky endured some criticism from both the critics and his fellow composers who felt that he needed to be more in step with where Russian music was going in the 19th century. What was that all about? We’ll see if the Fourth Symphony has any clues for us this Sunday night.
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This week we’re going to devote the entire program to music performed by the Kronos Quartet. There’s nobody else anything like them and there never has been. We’ll scratch the surface this Sunday.
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Music is ever-changing, but seldom in a straight line. We’ll look at three composers from each of the three past centuries with little in common with each other or anybody in between. Music from Mozart to Schoenberg this week — and others along the way.
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Robert and Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, and Johannes Brahms may have anticipated the concept of a professional network with mutual encouragement and career assistance in a circle that would come to include Antonin Dvorak. We’ll look at some of the music of this group this Sunday night.