On Aug. 18, conductor Charles Dutoit curates a Tanglewood concert featuring two works of Igor Stravinsky: his 1918 “L'Histoire du Soldat” (“The Soldier's Tale”) and his 1923 Octet for wind instruments ...
The blandly functional title of Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments doesn’t fully reveal the distinctiveness of this 1920 score, which forms the centerpiece for the season-opening concert by the ...
Featuring works by Schumann, Hsu, and Stravinsky. A student recital for piano, voice and wind instruments. The program features Schumann: Fantasiestuecke, Op.12 ...
Stravinsky's idiomatic brass and woodwind writing still surprises. Dedicated bassoonists can even purchase a hefty volume of fiendish Stravinsky orchestral excerpts. Lucky them. This performance of ...
Our first selection tonight is one of the earliest works from Stravinsky’s neoclassical period. The octet features a rare example of Stravinsky’s use of sonata form, a parody of a Mozart concerto, and ...
WIND ENSEMBLE literature has traditionally been dominated by the Sousa mentality, the effect of which has been the subjugation of ten thousand years of intellectual and spiritual development by the ...