PLUS: What to Listen for in Music: Coming to America
This event is NOT taking place at the Kennedy Center
- Jan. 8 - Feb. 12, 2002
- Other Venue
- 2 hours
- $72.00
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About
Back by Popular Demand for his 7th Season!
Join Irwin Shainman, professor emeritus of music at Williams
College, MA, as he tunes your ears and acquaints your mind to
some of history's great symphonic works. This series will survey
European composers who settled in America for various reasons.
Some welcomed, some rejected, YOU will explore the works of
musical masters like Bartok, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich,
and Stravinsky.
Session 1: American Influences on Wartime Refugees: Hindemith
and Milhaud
Session 2: Holding on to the Past; 19th Century romanticism in
America: Sibelius and Rachmaninoff
Session 3: Eastern Europeans Experience the New World:
Tchaikovsky and Dvorak
Session 4: Influence and Satire during World War II:
Shostakovich and Bartok
Session 5: Classical Forms through 20th Century Eyes:
Prokofiev and Bloch
Session 6: The Addition of Voices for Dramatic Effect:
Schoenberg and Stravinsky
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