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Rigoletto ... Sunday, March 10, 1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
"When the French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885) published his controversial play Le Roi s'amuse (The King Amuses Himself), he felt obliged to include in a preface an explanation of his intentions. In the drama, he confessed, ...
Nikolais Dance Theatre ... Monday, November 12, 1984, Jesse Auditorium
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
Symphony Band ... January 19, 1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
I Musici with Pina Carmirelli Wednesday, April 25, 1984
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
"The modern concert-goer can recognize the music dating from the approximately one hundred fifty years now known as the Baroque Era (1600-1750) in various ways. The most easily heard clue, perhaps, is the presence of a "general rhythm" created...
Ninth Annual Chancellor's Festival of Music, March 1-3, 1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ... Tuesday, March 14, 1985, Jesse Auditorium
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
"In spite of its central position in Western musical culture for the past several centuries, the orchestra must be understood as a relatively recent development in the annals of our music's long and illustrious history. ...
Chamber Music Series performance of Concord String Quartet ... Tuesday, April 16, 1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
"It is a common practice nowadays for musicians to create recital programs that include sample pieces from various periods of music history. This relatively recent approach to concert life has obvious advantages for both performers and listeners...
Saint Louis Brass Quintet ... Friday, March 2, 1984
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ... Jesse Auditorium, January 22, 1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
Itzhak Perlman, Violin, Samuel Sanders, Piano ... Thursday, November 29, 1984, Jesse Auditorium
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
"Since its ascendancy over the cornetto, the gamba, and other treble instruments in the mid-seventeenth century, the violin has been at the center of fine-art music-making in Western civilization. As a solo instrument, as ...
Beaux Arts Trio ... Jesse Auditorium, Saturday, February 23, 1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
"Among the categories of instrumental music to attract the interest of leading composers after the middle years of the eighteenth century was the piano trio, a composition for the newly prominent pianoforte and two other ...
Northern Sinfonia of England ... Wednesday, October 17, 1984, Jesse Auditorium
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
"The history of British music has been compared to a river--sometimes rushing along with a vigorous current for all the world to see, at other times flowing with little purpose underground. This simile is an apt description ...
Emanuel Ax, piano, Yo-Yo Ma, cello ... Wednesday, November 7, 1984, Jesse Auditorium
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
of melodic and rhythmic invention are well evident. Often so are his models. His Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 6 (1883), dating from the summer following his first year at the University of Munich, is "haunted" by the shades of Beethoven and Mendelssohn...
Chamber music series performance of Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, Bill Douglas, bassoon & piano ... Thursday, January 24, 1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
"In the family of musical instruments the clarinet is a relatively youthful member. It is descended from the single-reed shawm, the chalumeau, and in its initial, early eighteenth-century form was similar in tone quality ...
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ... Sunday, October 28, 1984, Jesse Auditorium
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ... Friday, September 28, 1984
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
"Any program of instrumental pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), and Franz Liszt (1811-1886) is certain to display rather emphatically the progressive musical priorities of the early ...
Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!, Friday, April 19, 1985, Jesse Auditorium
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1985)
"While Mr. Twain's selections will come from the complete list below, we have been unable to pin him down as to which of them he will do. He claims it would cripple his inspiration. He has generously conceded, however, to ...
Czech Philharmonic ... Tuesday, April 3, 1984
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
"MUSICAL NATIONALISM AND DVORAK: Regional and national styles of music and tastes in music have been of ever-present importance in the history of Western fine-art music. The evolution, confrontation, and cross-fertilization ...
George Frideric Handel's Oratoria, Messiah ... December 7 and 8, 1984, Jesse Auditorium
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
"Annual performances of the oratorio have become an indispensible part of our musical customs. In spite of this, many misconceptions surround it. Although we tend to associate the popular masterpiece with the festival of ...
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ... Tuesday, March 27, 1984
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1984)
""This elegant and heart-felt sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892- 1950) is an American poet's testimony to the penetrating impact of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). What seems remark- able about the ...