What's your favorite ensemble number in an opera or musical? Ensemble numbers in opera "provide a thrill that no other art form can provide: the thrill of being able to hear several emotional statements at once. You could never do it in a play. People just can't speak simultaneously—that is, if they want to be heard. It would be a jumble ... A mess. But music accomplishes the miracle, because notes are born together, as words are not." Leonard Bernstein, 1958 Omnibus: "What Makes Opera Grand? |
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On this day in 1808, one of the most famous concerts in musical history took place in Vienna. Ludwig van Beethoven premiered four monumental works at the Theater an der Wien: his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the Fourth Piano Concerto, and the Choral Fantasy. Beethoven conducted the historic program and was both pianist and conductor for the concerto and Choral Fantasy. In celebration of these premieres, we share with you a video excerpt of Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic / Wi
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On 9/9, we share with you Leonard Bernstein’s examination of the superstition surrounding “Ninth” symphonies. What's your favorite Ninth? In an introductory trailer to his Dmitri Shostakovich 9th Symphony performance with the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker, distributed by Deutsche Grammophon, Bernstein explains how Shostakovich “thumbed his nose” at the tradition of Ninth symphonies of the great composers. "The mystique of the number nine exerted itself in an odd way, so typical of
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