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2 unusual facts about Bernstein/Beethoven


Bernstein/Beethoven

As with most post-1969 Bernstein programs, it was directed by Humphrey Burton, who was, according to Schuyler Chapin, Bernstein's director of choice.

The miniseries contains performances of all of Beethoven's symphonies as well as several overtures, a string quartet that Bernstein re-orchestrated for the entire string section of the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Missa Solemnis, all conducted by Bernstein.


20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Maureen McGovern

Three of McGovern's movie themes ("The Morning After," "We May Never Love Like This Again," and "Nice to Be Around") are featured on the CD, while a fourth movie theme that McGovern recorded for 20th Century Records, "Wherever Love Takes Me," can be found in the CD format on the Elmer Bernstein soundtrack to Gold.

Akademische Orchestervereinigung

Since 1991, the orchestra has performed the works of Beethoven, Bizet, Prokofiev, Lutosławski, Weber, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bernstein, Wagner, Brahms, Henze and more.

Another Monty Python Record

(The "serious" liner notes on the back also bear a Pythonesque stamp: the biography of Beethoven quickly turns into a commentary on Beethoven's Wimbledon debut.)

Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria

The court organist was Christian Gottlob Neefe, who became an early mentor and teacher to Ludwig van Beethoven.

Beethoven or Bust

Beethoven or Bust, Music of Beethoven as realized by Don Dorsey on digital and other authentic period synthesizers.

Bram Gay

He has also done some extraordinary work for Brass bands in the UK, not least arranging the entire score of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and Beethoven's 3rd symphony for brass band, as well as frequently conducting bands in Wales and Sweden (Gothenburg).

Budhaditya Mukherjee

In 1995, he started recording on the surbahar (bass sitar), first as a two-part series (Brilliance of Sound) for Beethoven Records in Kolkata (ragas Yaman and Marwa), then raga Komal re Asavari for RPG/HMV on Tribute to My Father, My Guru (STCS 850362).

Credo

In Mass settings of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic period the Credo line is usually set for whole choir, such as in the Symbolum Nicenum (Nicene Creed) of Bach's Mass in B minor, where the composer uses plainchant as the theme for a fugue, in the later Masses of Haydn, and the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven.

Eduard Clam-Gallas

He was the eldest son of Count Christian Christoph Clam-Gallas (1771–1838), patron of Beethoven, and Countess Josephine Clary-Aldringen (1777–1828).

Eugene List

In 1929, at the age of 12, he performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Artur Rodziński, playing Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto.

Expensive Tape Recorder

In 1984, when Jack Dennis asked if they could recognize Beethoven, Computer Museum meeting minutes record the authors as saying, "It wasn't bad, considering."

F.W. Bernstein

F.W. Bernstein (originally Fritz Weigle; born March 4, 1938, Göppingen) is a German poet, cartoonist, and satirist.

Felix Bernstein

:Not to be confused with poet Charles Bernstein's son, Felix Bernstein.

Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Award winning performers and full runs of shows from the likes of Pappy’s Fun Club, John Gordillo, Lewis Schaffer, Nick Wilty, Sol Bernstein, Steve Day, Bob Slayer, Nik Coppin and Ivor Dembina have appeared in previous years, plus guest appearances in compilation shows from well known performers such as Alan Carr, Scott Capurro, Richard Herring, Brendan Burns, Marcus Brigstocke, Reg D. Hunter, Dan Antopolski and Paul Foot.

Gesellschaft der Associierten

DeNora, Tia (1991) Musical Patronage and Social Change in Beethoven's Vienna.

Giovanni Punto

They premièred the work on 18 April 1800 at the Burgtheater and the following month the pair played the work again in Pest, Hungary (it was here that the critic commented "who is this Beethoven?...").

Hugh Tinney

Dublinese highlights of Tinney's solo career include two major recital series in the at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1991, 1995) and six recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas at the Royal Dublin Society (2000–02).

Jarrod Bernstein

Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Bernstein served in the administration of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for seven years.

Jay Bernstein

Jay Bernstein (June 7, 1937 – April 30, 2006) was an American producer and manager to actors like Sammy Davis Jr., Michael Landon and to actresses Farrah Fawcett and Suzanne Somers.

Joseph de Marliave

Some of his book on Beethoven was a translation and paraphrase of the 1885 book in German by Theodor Helm.

Josephine Brunsvik

Steblin, Rita (2002): "Josephine Gräfin Brunswick-Deyms Geheimnis enthüllt: Neue Ergebnisse zu ihrer Beziehung zu Beethoven." Josephine Countess Brunsvik-Deym's Secret Revealed: New Results about her Relationship to Beethoven. Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 57/6 (June), pp.

Júlia Várady

Roles she sang in the studio (such as the Empress in Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten) or in concert (such as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio, and Fidelia in Giacomo Puccini's Edgar) are not included.

Karen Bernstein

Karen Bernstein is a Canadian voice actress who is best known to many in North America as the voice of Sailor Mercury in the American dubbing of the first two seasons of Sailor Moon.

King Kurt

Their second album, Big Cock, was produced by Phil Wainman and released on Polydor in 1986, which included their cover of Bernstein and Sondheim's "America" from West Side Story.

Konrad, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen

However, he is the only son by his father's dynastic second wife, Baroness Vera Schäffer von Bernstein (1914–1994).

Konstantin Scherbakov

Scherbakov has had a successful recording career for Naxos Records; among his CDs on that label are recordings of all Tchaikovsky's Piano Concertos, the nine Beethoven symphonies (as transcribed for the piano by Liszt), and music by Godowsky, Medtner, Respighi, Shostakovich, and Lyapunov.

Little 15

The 12" B-side also contains a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata #14.

Louis Lortie

An international soloist, with over 30 recordings on the Chandos Records label, Lortie is particularly known for his interpretation of Ravel, Chopin and Beethoven.

Matthias Manasi

Matthias Manasi has performed recitals throughout the USA, Europe and South America, performing not only classical and romantic repertoire but also contemporary works by such composers as Bernstein, Dutilleux, Schnittke, Takemitsu, Sawai, among others.

Metaphor: The Tree of Utah

Inscribed on the plaque are the words from Ode to Joy by Friedrich Schiller; also used as the chorus of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Milwaukee Youth Arts Center

The nine smaller classrooms/studio spaces and two additional rehearsal/practice rooms are named after prominent figures in theater and music: Duke Ellington, Lorraine Hansberry, Gustav Mahler, Martha Graham, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare, Dmitri Shostakovich, Stephen Sondheim, Konstantin Stanislavski, Arthur Miller, and "B-3 or B-cubed," which stands for Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven.

My Brother Is an Only Child

Duce!', and their actions constantly tending to violence, the communists are hardly less so: Schiller's words in the final movement of Beethoven's choral symphony are replaced by a hymn in praise of Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin; a meeting of activists consists of a room full of bearded men all shouting at once and only agreeing when the time comes to shout a slogan.

Oskar Piotrowski

tied for 2nd-3rd with Erich Cohn, behind Ossip Bernstein, in the Berlin Summer Tournament - Section I (Quadrangular), and shared 2nd with Moritz Lewitt, behind Bernstein, in the 1st Tournament of the General Chess Federation of Berlin.

Panharmonicon

Beethoven apparently composed his piece "Wellington's Victory" (Op. 91) to be played on this behemoth mechanical orchestral organ to commemorate Arthur Wellesley's victory over the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813.

Roland Bader

Bader made numerous recordings throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most notably, with the music of Kurt Weill, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Joseph Joachim and others, including mainstream and the lesser-known 18th and 19th century masses by Mozart, Bruch, Beethoven, Bruckner, Weber, as well as Nicolai, Suppé, and Donizetti.

Roxana Briban

Also in her repertoire were vocal-symphonic works by Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Shostakovich and Hindemith.

Rudolf Buchbinder

2012: Echo Klassik in German music award as Instrumentalist of the Year (piano) and the album Beethoven: The Sonata Legacy issued by RCA Red Seal/Sony

Sarah Beth Briggs

She has produced recordings of Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Britten (the world premiere of whose Three Character Pieces she gave in 1989), Chopin, Haydn, Mozart Schubert and Rawsthorne on the Semaphore label.

Shura Cherkassky

He appeared at the Hollywood Bowl with conductors such as Sir John Barbirolli and Leopold Stokowski, and he played the sound track (Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata) for the Bette Davis 1946 film Deception.

Stephen Siegel

Throughout his career, he has arranged transactions for some of the US's most prominent corporate clients including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Amerada Hess Corp., Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Swiss Reinsurance, MetLife, Cerberus Capital Management and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP.

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

In February 1998, singing from the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, the chorus represented the Americas when Seiji Ozawa led the Winter Olympics Orchestra with six choruses on five continents, all linked by satellite, in the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to close the Opening Ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Olympics.

The Joy of Music

(One of these conversations contains Bernstein's thoughts on Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, a work he never conducted or recorded.)

The Ten-Per-Cent Solution

The music that is played during the parody of The King's Speech is "Symphony No. 7" by Ludwig van Beethoven, and a musical piece from the Swan Lake ballet is played during the Black Swan parody.

Thou Art in Heaven

Unlike the full "Art in Heaven", "Thou Art in Heaven" does not include "Ode to Joy" from Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Timothy Hutchins

Timothy Hutchins has appeared as guest principal with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and with Leonard Bernstein at the latter’s last appearance, recording Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony at Tanglewood.

Tom Bernstein

Tom A. Bernstein is president and co-founder of Chelsea Piers, L.P., which was formed in 1992 to develop and operate the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex.

Toni Servillo

He also directed famous theatrical opera like Il marito disperato by Cimarosa and Fidelio by Beethoven for the San Carlo Opera House in Naples and Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon, where in 2003 he also staged Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss.

Vienna Philharmonic discography

Beethoven, Complete Piano Concertos (this cycle was recorded with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini and Krystian Zimerman.

Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg

In 1937 he conducted a complete Beethoven cycle at the invitation of Furtwängler.


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