Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Apparatus and Critical Notes
- Note on Translations
- List of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Nadia Boulanger’s Life
- Introduction
- Part One Journalism, Criticism, Tributes
- Part Two Lectures, Classes, Broadcasts
- Bibliography of Nadia Boulanger’s Published Writing
- General Bibliography
- Index
“Concerts Koussevitzky,” Le Monde Musical 34, nos. 21 and 22 (November 1923): 365 and 367 (excerpt)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Apparatus and Critical Notes
- Note on Translations
- List of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Nadia Boulanger’s Life
- Introduction
- Part One Journalism, Criticism, Tributes
- Part Two Lectures, Classes, Broadcasts
- Bibliography of Nadia Boulanger’s Published Writing
- General Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Concerts Reviewed (all at the Théâtre de l’Opéra)
(asterisk indicates premiere)
October 11, 1923
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Hector Berlioz
Symphony no. 2, op. 23, Albert Roussel
Concerto for two pianos, K. 365, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alborada del gracioso, Maurice Ravel
La Valse, Maurice Ravel
October 18, 1923
Symphony in D major, Bernardo Polaci
Octet, Igor Stravinsky*
Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major, Sergey Prokofiev*
Symphony no. 3 in E flat major, Ludwig van Beethoven
October 25, 1923
Symphony, Luigi Boccherini
TillEulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28; TrV 171, Richard Strauss
La Mer, 3 symphonic sketches: “I: De l’aube à midi sur la mer,” “II: Jeux de vagues,” “III: Dialogue du vent et de la mer,” Claude Debussy
Le Sacre du printemps [The Rite of Spring], Igor Stravinsky
November 8, 1923
Parade, Erik Satie
Vieille prière bouddhique, Lili Boulanger
Overture to Le ballet de l’avenir, Maurice Delage*
Trois poèmes, Maurice Delage*
Extracts from Knyaz'Igor’ [PrinceIgor], Aleksandr Borodin
Koussevitzky Concerts
With indefatigable zeal, Serge Koussevitzky travels the field of music, enjoys finding the forgotten paths, seeing the great roads of the past again, walking resolutely along new routes. It seems that nothing can stop his curiosity, that nothing can weaken his enthusiasm, and that nothing can ever get in his way. With a confidence that, so to speak, never fails him, Serge Koussevitzky puts together programs in which the ensemble of works, of tendencies, of epochs, of different styles seems to have been suggested by a spontaneity that does not know what doubt is. And what comes from it is an extraordinary impression of life. Serge Koussevitzky is always an innovator. One feels that, for him, there are no immutable truths. Even when he approaches the earliest works, it is their life in our present that, without worrying about tradition, he sees above all else. And it is again this religion of active life that makes him constantly seek the movement of thought towards the future.
If, during these last concerts, great importance has been given to early music, how much greater was that given to modern music.
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- Nadia BoulangerThoughts on Music, pp. 186 - 190Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020