The great composer, conductor and teacher Nadia Boulanger said, “A genius can only be original, therefore a genius need only try to imitate in order to be original.” Intended as an homage to his illustrious predecessors Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven’s First Symphony was, inescapably, original.
NPR & PBS music commentator, conductor, composer, author and pianist Rob Kapilow explores how this symphony – which launched the symphonic career of the young Beethoven in Vienna in 1800 – honored the Viennese tradition in a voice that was unmistakably original and uniquely his own.
Featuring the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia
Part of What Makes It Great? - 2016
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7th @ 7:30 PM
