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Friday, August 24, 2007

Compare and Contrast 4

Or, what a good agent can get you.

San Francisco Symphony Opening Gala:
  • Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man

  • Crawford Seeger, Andante for Strings

  • Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

  • Ravel, Shéhérazade

  • Puccini, “Vissi d’arte” (Tosca), “O mio babbino caro” (Gianni Schicchi)

  • Prokofiev, Scenes from Romeo and Juliet
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Renée Fleming, soprano


Los Angeles Philharmonic Opening Night Gala:
  • Berlioz, "Love Scene" from Romeo and Juliet

  • Ravel, Shéhérazade

  • Boccherini/Berio, Ritirata notturna di Madrid

  • Puccini, “Vissi d’arte” (Tosca), “O mio babbino caro” (Gianni Schicchi)

  • Berlioz, "Ball Scene" from Romeo and Juliet

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Renée Fleming, soprano

True, not the same Romeo and Juliet.

4 comments:

  1. OK, but who's Ravel's agent?

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  2. Ha.

    That is my cue to mention that the Boston Symphony's opening night gala is an all-Ravel program - they get Susan Graham singing Shéhérazade, imo greatly preferable to Fleming.

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  3. We will have La Fleming in Washington, too, but at least she will be singing Korngold.

    National Symphony Orchestra Opening Ball Concert (September 16, 7 pm):

    Suppé - Overture to Poet and Peasant

    J. Strauss, Jr. - Emperor Waltz, Op. 437

    Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major (Peng Peng)

    Mozart - Overture to The Marriage of Figaro

    Mozart - Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165

    Strauss - Feuersnot: Love Music

    Korngold - Die Kathrin: "Ich soll ihn niemals, niemals mehr seh'n"

    Korngold - Das Wunder der Heliane: "Ich ging zu ihm"

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  4. That's a nice program! I like the mix of light and middleweight classics.

    I think she just sang the two Korngold arias at the Proms, eh?

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