Name: Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
Start: 2023-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Benedict Music Tent

Organization

Aspen Music Festival

Orchestra

The Aspen Festival Orchestra

Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra

Aspen

United States

Benedict Music Tent

Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra: Rhapsodies Stucky (+1 More)

Public

Rhapsodies

Concerto for Orchestra in F Minor, Sz. 116, BB 123

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Conductor

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Countertenor

Singer

Baritone

Tenor

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Bass-baritone

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

See the conducting stars of tomorrow in these engaging concerts where student conductors rotate between conducting a movement of a work, or playing in the orchestra. Program Director and AMFS Music Director Robert Spano observes the work of his students at this weekly event.

Two works that masterfully display the different colors and capabilities of the orchestra are on this exciting program. You’ll also have a chance to hear this summer’s Brass and Percussion Competition Winner showcase their talent. When Steven Stucky was asked by then New York Philharmonic Music Director Lorin Maazel if he’d consider writing “something rhapsodic,” he ran to the dictionary. Realizing that he would never choose the word “rhapsodic” to describe his music, he used the opportunity to push his own boundaries. The result is a work in a free, improvisational form which develops episodically, as a single instrument inspires its neighbors to create a mass of sound.

Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, his most popular work, was also among his last.. It was commissioned as a showcase for the Boston Symphony Orchestra while the composer was in a New York hospital suffering from leukemia. This opportunity revitalized Bartók, and in only two months, the work was complete. As in Stucky’s piece, individual sections of the orchestra are often treated soloistically. The first movement is heavily influenced by the folk themes and rhythms of Bartók’s native Hungary, which near the end are played backwards, forwards, and upside down. In the second movement, subtitled Presentation of Couples, pairs of wind instruments and muted trumpets are each given their own theme, which later return embellished by additional instruments. A haunting elegy is followed by an intermezzo which is rudely interrupted by Bartók’s thumbing his nose at Shostakovich, whom he considered overrated. The splendid finale with its brass fanfares and intricate fugue brings the work to a thrilling conclusion.

Be swept away by the color and power of the orchestra with this invigorating program!

English

Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra by Stucky, Bartók, Céa 09 Lúna 2023, Ó (2023/2023), Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, United States

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid