Posts Tagged ‘Arvo Pärt’
Dec.
04
2012
Tuesday 12/04/12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Arvo Pärt. Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta Pärt: Symphony No 4, Los Angeles Debussy: La Mer Castellanos: Santa Cruz de Pacairigua (Gustavo Dudamel, conductor)
Nov.
25
2012
Mass for troubled times
In his later years Franz Joseph Haydn personally enjoying great success and fame, but the world around him was in trouble. In 1798 Haydn wrote Missa in Angustiis (“Mass for troubled times”) which may have been premiered the day Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon in the Battle of the Nile. This late mass would gradually be called […]
