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Chadwick: Symphony No. 2; Symphonic Sketches.(Sound Recording Review)
Chadwick: Symphony No. 2; Symphonic Sketches. Theodore Kuchar, National Radio Symphony of Ukraine. Naxos 8.559213.
It's been said that around the turn of the twentieth century George Whitefield Chadwick was America's most-prominent composer. Hard to believe, considering that today most ardent music lovers have hardly encountered him and that most everybody else has never heard of him. The fact is, he didn't have a lot of competition around that time, with Gershwin, Copland, Barber, Cage, Piston, Grofe, Thomson, and the rest coming well after him. Chadwick was a conservative neo-romanticist whose main rivals at the time seem to have been Sousa, in an entirely different medium; the more progressive Ives, whom hardly anyone could understand; and MacDowell, an old-timer by then.
This Naxos issue couples two of Chadwick's most-popular pieces, the Second Symphony and the Symphonic Sketches on the same disc. Both of them are lightweight stuff, but of the two, it's the Symphonic Sketches that shows the most spark.
...- Letter : Elgar's symphonic sketches deserve a hearing
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Colin Matthews March 3, 1995 700+ words
...BBC accepted the sketches of the Third Symphony is a "sacred trust". That document...any attempt at "reconstructing" the symphony is gone. But why is Mr Monk, like many...said, "if I can't complete the Third Symphony, somebody will complete it". And somebody...
- Symphony No. 10: First Movement.
- Magazine article from: Notes Winter, Robert June 1, 1995 700+ words
...Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony, have fared better...Beethoven's Tenth Symphony," Journal of the...Beethoven's Tenth Symphony: A Realization...in other Beethoven symphonies, especially the Ninth...Unlike the D-major symphonic sketches that date from the...
- Beethoven goes country for end of series: Young violinist will make longawaited...
- Newspaper article from: Times-News (Burlington, NC) April 30, 2006 700+ words
...with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and its "Ode...t possible. The symphony and several hundred...difficult of all nine symphonies to perform," he said...is three different symphonic sketches, by name: From Dawn...Beethoven works, the symphony will be joined by perhaps...
- Young violinist charms symphony concertgoers.
- Newspaper article from: Times-News (Burlington, NC) May 6, 2006 700+ words
...director of the Greensboro Symphony, occasionally jokes...soloist at the Greensboro Symphony's final classical...and North Carolina symphonies, and she has also...appearance with the N.C. Symphony's Summerfest next...Claude Debussy's symphonic sketches "The Sea," complete...
- VIOLINIST FIERY JOSEFOWICZ RETURNS TO NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY FOR FANTASTIQUE
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News October 14, 2009 700+ words
...Department of Cultural Resources' Symphony issued the following news...collaborate with the North Carolina Symphony and Resident Conductor William...Chadwick's Jubilee from Symphonic Sketches and Berlioz's Symphonie...composer John Adams. The Symphony looks forward to working...
- Guerrero shares gift on monumental night.(Columns)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) December 24, 2002 700+ words
...new conductor of the Eugene Symphony, is the most exciting personality...appearances with the National Symphony, Detroit Symphony and the New York Philharmonic...moment. "Jubilee," from "Symphonic Sketches" by the under-rated American...
- Christmas concert won't be same old pops parade.(Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) December 8, 2002 700+ words
...usual Christmas tunes," the new Eugene Symphony conductor said, "but I gave that one...of the cantata." Besides the Eugene Symphony Chorus, prepared by Sharon Paul, the...will come "Jubilee," one of nine symphonic sketches by George Chadwick, a Bostonian who...
- Movies are the operas of today, Schifrin says
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times October 23, 1988 700+ words
...had Ray Charles playing along with a symphony orchestra, it was not pop music. This...score of `Bullitt' is being played by symphony orchestras now. I did an arrangement of symphonic sketches from the score of `Cool Hand Luke...
