LECTURE/RECITAL
Merkin Hall
What Makes It Great? - Rob Kapilow
Beethoven's 1st Symphony
Featuring the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia
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. Host 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
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. Host 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.
Rob Kapilow spends the first hour going through the piece telling what makes it great and the second hour the piece is performed without interruption.
It becomes a wonderfully interesting evening.
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