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About the MSO | Finding Exhilaration
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Musings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong. Visit the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s website. Among the finest orchestras in the country, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is the largest cultural organization in Wisconsin. Since its inception in 1959, the orchestra has received critical acclaim for artistic excellence. Follow Me via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 48 other followers.
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Behind the Notes Preview | Finding Exhilaration
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Musings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong. Behind the Notes Preview. I am always delighted by how many enthusiastic audience members come to the MSO’s Behind the Notes series of preconcert talks. I have a wonderful time introducing our guest speakers and it is also a great chance to catch up with subscribers to talk about the previous week’s concerts. Here’s what you can look forward to coming up at Behind the Notes:. Posted by Francesco Lecce-Chong. Join ...
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The Time Has Come for Bruckner | Finding Exhilaration
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Musings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong. The Time Has Come for Bruckner. I encourage you to listen to the following video of de Waart discussing Bruckner (start at 2:43 in the video). http:/ www.nhkso.or.jp/en/library/videolibrary/index.php? You’ll get a general version of what I received from de Waart several times. His face just lights up when he talks about the music and he so clearly connects with every moment in these mammoth symphonies. Enter your ...
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Mozart and Strauss | Finding Exhilaration
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Musings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong. This weekend, I am thrilled to conduct my second subscription program with the MSO focusing on the music of Mozart and Strauss. Part of the fun in this program is the chance to hear two drastically different “orchestras”. Just look at the breakdown in numbers between the two first half works:. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel – 89 musiciansMozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 – 44 musicians. Than for Mozart’s. From last year),...
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2010-2011 - sean kubota | conductor
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July 16, 2011. Dai-ichi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Mozart: Overture and Aria from Cosi fan tutte. Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate, K. 165. Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Op, 68. Sean Kubota, conductor. July 9, 2011. Conducting Seminar, Vol. 2. Daiba Civic Center, Tokyo, Japan. Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Op. 68. Sean Kubota, instructor. June 18 - July 16, 2011. Orchestrada, Tokyo, Japan. Summer Residency, Music Director. June 12, 2011. Buttenwieser Hall at 92Y, New York, NY. Sean Kubota, conductor. Tomo Matsuo, piano.
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Maternal health care antibiotics online. Apply for an award. Purchase tickets to the 2016 Gala. Ankush Kumar Bahl (2015). Connor Gray Covington (2014). Joshua David Gersen (2015). Shizuo Z. Kuwahara (2014). Christopher James Lees (2013). Carlos César Rodríguez (2005). The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Fellows. Karina Canellakis, The 2016 Solti Conducting Fellow. The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Vladimir Kulenovic, The 2015 Solti Conducting Fellow. The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Recently appointe...
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Jennifer Higdon and “blue cathedral” | Finding Exhilaration
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Musings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong. Jennifer Higdon and “blue cathedral”. You might think that the our opening work, Jennifer Higdon’s. Is the odd one out this coming weekend. After all, it’s going up against one of the most popular violin concerti, Bruch’s G Minor, and one of the most popular symphonies, Dvorak’s New World Symphony. However, as popular as the Bruch and Dvorak works are today,. Here is what Higdon gives us:. On March 6, 2013. Fill i...
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What is orchestration? | Finding Exhilaration
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Musings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong. Have a favorite movie score? Which uses only the strings to create a “heavenly” sound and Liszt’s First Piano Concerto where a surprising instrument gets the spotlight alongside the piano. Week 2 (September 27-28) – Ravel is without question one of the great orchestrators and his ballet score. Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra provides a kaleidoscope of orchestration techniques for us to savor. We’ll...Look forward ...
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“Contemplation” at the Basilica | Finding Exhilaration
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Musings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong. 8220;Contemplation” at the Basilica. Each Basilica program this season includes a work that rarely is heard in the concert hall. Our November program had a world premiere and on our final program on May 17-18, we will present the U.S. Premiere of Weinberg’s Second Symphony. For this program, however, we went all the way back to Haydn’s. The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. Posted by Francesco Lecce-Chong.
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Milwaukee’s Ode to Joy | Finding Exhilaration
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Musings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong. Milwaukee’s Ode to Joy. There are lots of resources out there if you want to beef up on your Beethoven’s Ninth trivia including a listening guide. You can download from the MSO website. One of the best ways to enjoy this weekend is to show up in the atrium an hour before the concerts for a special preconcert talk by writer and music historian Harvey Sachs. Well, that took long enough. On March 20, 2014. You are co...
