jmc's classics
I attended the SLSO concert on November 23. St. Louis Post-Dispatch classical music Sarah Bryan Miller wrote a review of the concert. It can be checked out on her Facebook Page. The concert featured Paul Hindemith's Concert Music for Strings and Brass (Opus #50), Prokofiev's Piano Concerto #1 (Opus#10) and Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition which was orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. Marcello Lehningher was the conductor and Simon Trpceski was the soloist.
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) was a German composer. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930's because his wife was part Jewish. he moved to Switzerland than to America. His most famous work is symphonic Metamorphasis on a theme by Carl Maria Von Weber. Hindemith complained that 80% of his music was bad. Von Weber (1786-1826) was a German composer who was related to Mozart. The Concert Music piece is divided in to two parts and lasts about 17 minutes. I am not as familiar with his piece. I have a copy of his concerto for French horn coupled with Richard Strauss' two concertos. With Hindemith conducting the Philharmonia and Denis Brian as the soloist on the EMI label. I have a copy of the Concert Music with Herbert Blomstedt conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on the London label. Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was a Russian-Ukranian composer. his best known works are Peter and the Wolf (Opus #67) which I remember from my childhood and his Symphony #1 "Classical (Opus #25). He left the Soviet Union for a while after the revolution but eventually returned. He had been involved with the Christian Science religion. After the Russian Revolution, many Russians fled Russia. Mussorgski (1839-1881) was ARussina who wrote mostly opera. Pictures at an exhibition was a piano piece. Ravel orchestrated it along with many others. It is one of the most played classical pieces. It is based on paintings by artist Victor Hartmann. Marcello Lehningher is a Brazilian of German ancestry. Many Germans, Irish, and other non Spanish or Portuguese immigrated to Brazil, Argentina and other Latin American countrues. Trpcesi (1979- ) ios from Macedonia which was part of the former Yougoslavia. Overall I enjoyed the concert. THe music was interesting.
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