Events
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19.
November 2022.
Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Main hall
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SATURDAY AT LISINSKI
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13.00 € 97.95 kn
19.00 € 143.16 kn
24.00 € 180.83 kn
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Tickets |
13.00 € 97.95 kn
19.00 € 143.16 kn
24.00 € 180.83 kn
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CHOIR AND SOLOISTS OF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
RICHARD ROSENBERG, conductor
In collaboration with The Academy of Music, University of Zagreb
Programme:
Lucien Lambert: Ouverture de Brocéliande
Dana Suesse: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E minor
Arnold Schönberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46, for narrator, men's chorus and orchestra
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
The Music of The Oppressed
One of the most intriguing American conductors of today, Richard Rosenberg, a student and collaborator of world-renowned conductors such as Bernstein, Sawallisch, Solti or Harnoncourt, is also a passionate seeker of forgotten masterpieces of American classical music. Under his conducting, young, full-blooded artists, the Symphony Orchestra, choir and soloists of the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb, will perform famous and newly discovered works - gems of American music history! Listening to the passionate and enchanting music of American composer Dana Suesse (1909-1987) is an unforgettable and magical experience for everyone who hears it. Due to the irresistible jazz rhythms that flow through the bloodstream of her musical being and her works, critics of her time called her the girl Gershwin. Suesse, a brilliant pianist, student of the famous Alexander Siloti (the last living student of Franz Liszt), and one of the most talented composers who studied with the renowned Nadia Boulanger in Paris later on, wrote U.S. music history with beautiful jazz standards and masterfully composed orchestral music filled with colours and intense emotions, comparable to Hollywood’s most exciting film music. The cantata A Survivor from Warsaw by the genius inventor of dodecaphony and naturalized American Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) is a moving and deeply felt tonal image of war suffering and the Holocaust. As a direct contrast to this highly expressive work, the programme also includes the joyful Ouverture de Brocéliande with classically beautiful melodic lines by the inspired American composer Lucien Lambert (1828 -1896). One of the most beautiful and popular sacral works of the 20th century – Chichester Psalms by the great Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) – will be the magnificent highlight of the concert. It is a piece in which the passion of beautiful oriental Jewish traditional music melodies is coloured with sumptuous jazz rhythms, enriched with nuances of American pop and easy listening music of the 1960s (which we love so much in the composer's West Side Story), but also shaped in the monumental formal architecture of the Western European sacral tradition.
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