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“7 Anniversaries”

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Bernstein piano pieces

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“Adoration of the Earth”

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Part 1 of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”

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“Agon”

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Stravinsky - representative of Final Years (sparse textures)

ballet

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Alex Pauk

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Alexina Louie’s husband

conducts Esprit Orchestra

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Alice Goodman

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librettist who worked with John Adams

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Antoine-Francois Marmontel

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taught Debussy piano

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Antonio Salieri

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taught Schubert theory & composition

Italian composer, conductor

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Arthur Laurents

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playwright

librettist for “West Side Story”

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Bishop Heironymus von Colloredo

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patron and employer of Mozart

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“Canticum Sacrum”

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Stravinsky - representative of Final Years (twelve-tone)

choral

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Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach

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J.S.’s son

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Charles Baudelaire

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original Symbolist author

wrote collection of poems “Les Fleurs du Mal”

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Charles Jennens

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librettist of “Messiah”

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“Chichester Psalms”

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Bernstein orchestral work with chorus

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Christian Neefe

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taught Beethoven

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Count Ferdinand von Morzin

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Haydn was his Kapellmeister

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Count Joseph Erdody

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commissioned Haydn’s op. 76 string quartets

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Count Rasumovsky

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patron of Beethoven

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Duke of Chandos

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patron of Handel

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“Dybbuk”

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Bernstein ballet

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Earl of Burlington

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patron of Handel

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“Ebony Concerto”

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Stravinsky orchestral work

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“Eight Instrumental Miniatures”

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Stravinsky - representative of Final Years

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“El Nino”

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John Adams oratorio

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Emanuel Schikaneder

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German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer

wrote the libretto of Mozart’s
“The Magic Flute”

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Emile Durand

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taught Debussy harmony

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Emma Bardac

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Debussy’s 2nd wife after scandalous divorce from 1st wife

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Emperor Joseph II

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patron of Mozart (Imperial Court Chamber Music Composer)

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Ernest Guiraud

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taught Debussy composition

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Esprit Orchestra

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Louie was founding director

significant for its devotion to Canadian composers and premieres of new works

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Esterhazy

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Hungarian family

Haydn employed by them for several years

Schubert worked briefly for them in 1818, teaching 2 daughters

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“Fancy Free”

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Bernstein ballet

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“Fascimile”

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Bernstein ballet

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“Firebird”

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ballet by Stravinsky

helped establish his reputation as a composer in Paris (Ballet Russes)

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“Fireworks”

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Stravinsky - representative of Early Years (rich orchestration)

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Franz von Schober

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housed Schubert in his early 20’s which allowed Schubert to focus entirely on composing

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Franz Xavier Sussmayr

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student of Mozart

finished some of his work post mortem

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Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow

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taught Handel composition & keyboard technique

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Fyodor Stravinsky

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Igor’s father

highly respected opera singer at Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg

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Georges Sand

Aurore Dudevant

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prominent novelist

had 10-year love affair with Chopin

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“Gretchen am Spinnrade”

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Schubert lied, one of his most famous

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“Harmonium No. 1: Negative Love”

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John Adams

choral

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Harriet Smithson

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Shakespearean actress

married Berlioz

inspiration for “Symphonie Fantastique”

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Harvard

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Stravinsky lectured there

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45
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Henri Meilhac

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one of two librettists for “Carmen”

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“I Hate Music”

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Bernstein song cycle

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Imperial Chapel

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where Schubert attended choir school

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48
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Jane Stirling

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student of Chopin

organized his last tour

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49
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Jean Lyons

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Alexis Louie’s childhood piano teacher

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Jerome Robbins

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choreographer for “West Side Story”

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Johann Christoph Bach

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J.S.’s older brother

influenced Mozart

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Johann Michael Vogl

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baritone

close friend of Schubert

performed many of Schubert’s songs, thus giving Schubert access to supportive Viennese musical circles

53
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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poet/writer

influenced Schubert

Schubert used his poem for “Erlkonig”

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Jozef Elsner

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taught Chopin at Warsaw Conservatory

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King George I

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patron of Handel

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“Les Fleurs du Mal”

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by Charles Baudelaire

collection of Symbolist poems

ancillary poem: “Correspondences”

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Lorenzo da Ponte

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librettist for “Marriage of Figaro”

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Los Angeles

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where Stravinsky settled in America

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Ludovic Halevy

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one of two librettists for “Carmen”

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Ludwig von Kochel

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catalogued Mozart’s works in 1862

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Majorca

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where Chopin & Sand vacationed

Chopin wrote op. 28 there

62
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Marie Recio

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singer

Berlioz’s 2nd wife

63
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“Matter of Heart”

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John Adams film score

64
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“Music for Heaven and Earth”

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Alexina Louie

orchestral

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“Music for Piano”

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Alexina Louie

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Nadezhda von Meck

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Debussy employed as pianist in her house

patroness of Tchaikovsky

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“Nixon in China”

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John Adams opera

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“O Magnum Mysterium”

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Alexina Louie

orchestral piece written in memory of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould

69
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“Oedipus Rex”

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Stravinsky opera

70
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“On the Waterfront”

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Bernstein film score

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Pablo Picasso

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designed sets for Stravinsky (“Pulcinella”)

72
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Paris Conservatoire

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Claude Debussy attended at age 10

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Paul Verlaine

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French Symbolist poet

Claude Debussy set to music “Clair de lune” and six of the “Fêtes galantes”poems, forming part of the mélodie collection known as the “Recueil Vasnier”; he also made another setting of “Clair de lune”, and the poem inspired his “Suite bergamasque”.

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Pauline Oliveros

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taught Louie piano

75
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“Pelleas et Melisande”

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opera by Debussy

premiered 1899

76
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Peter Sellars

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stage designer, director

worked with Adam’s

77
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“Petrushka”

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ballet by Stravinsky

helped establish his reputation as a composer in Paris (Ballet Russes)

written during Early Years

78
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“Phrygian Gates”

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John Adams

piano

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“Prelude, Fugue and Riffs”

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Bernstein chamber work

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Prince Leopold

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Bach was his Kapellmeister

81
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Prince Lichnowsky

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patron of Beethoven

82
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Prince Lobkowitz

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patron of Beethoven

83
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Prix de Rome

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French scholarship to enable students to study 3-5 years in Rome

1830 - Berlioz won
1884 - Debussy won

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Prosper Merimee

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wrote the novella that was the basis for “Carmen” (Bizet)

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“Pulcinella”

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Stravinsky ballet

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Queen Anne

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patron of Handel

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“Requiem Canticles”

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Stravinsky

choral

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Rimsky- Korsakov

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mentored Stravinsky

89
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Robert Craft

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American composer, conductor

friend of Stravinsky

they wrote several books together

90
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Robert Erickson

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taught Louie piano

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Saint-Germain-en-Laye

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Claude Debussy’s birthplace

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“Serenade”

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Bernstein orchestral work

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Sergei Diaghilev

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Director of Ballet Russes in Paris, founded in 1909

produced several of Stravinsky’s ballets, including “Firebird”, “Petrushka”

Stravinsky is buried near him

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“Shaker Loops”

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John Adams, early work

string septet

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“Songfest”

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Bernstein orchestral work

96
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Sonnleithner family

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hosted musical evenings showcasing Schubert’s works

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St. Stephen’s Cathedral

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Haydn sang in the cathedral as a choir boy

married his wife Anna Maria Aloysia there.

98
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Stadtkonvikt

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where young Schubert received training for Imperial Chapel choir school

99
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Stephane Mellarme

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Symbolist poet

inspired Debussy’s “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune”

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Stephen Sondheim

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lyricist for “West Side Story”

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Switzerland

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where Stravinsky and his family fled when WWI started

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“Symphony No. 3 (‘Kassish’)”

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Bernstein symphony

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“Symphony of Psalms”

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Stravinsky - representative of Middle Years (emotional restraint, balance, etc.)

choral

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“The Owl and the Pussycat”

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Stravinsky vocal piece

105
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“The Rake’s Progress”

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Stravinsky - representative of Middle Years (Neo-Classical)

opera

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The Royal Academy of Music

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Handel cofounded

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“The Sacrifice”

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Part 2 of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”

108
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“The Soldier’s Tale”

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Stravinsky - representative of Transitional Years (WWI, intimate)

dramatic work

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Theodore de Bainville

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positive critic of “Carmen”

most reviews were negative

110
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“Trouble in Tahiti”

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Bernstein opera

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UCLA

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Stravinsky lectured there

112
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USC

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Stravinsky lectured there

113
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Vaslav Nijinsky

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choreographed “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune” and “Rite of Spring”

danced role of puppet in “Petrushka”

114
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Vera de Bossett

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Stravinsky’s second wife

affair for almost 20 years

married in 1940, about 1 year after first wife died

115
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Villa Medici

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in Rome

where Debussy studied under Prix de Rome scholarship

116
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Walt Disney, “Fantasia”

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used Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”

117
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Wilhelm Ernst

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Duke of Weimar

Bach was his court organist and chamber musician

118
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Wilhelm Friedrich Bach

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J.S.’s son

119
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“Winter Music”

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Alexina Louie

chamber music

includes “Demon Gate” and “Edges”

120
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Wojciech Zywny

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pianist, violinist, composition

taught Chopin when he was about 6

121
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Women’s Ensemble

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eight members, incl. Alexina Louie

performed meditations through exercises in sound & movement

influenced her compositional approach by enabling her to study and feel the less tangible aspects of music

122
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“Young People’s Concerts”

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TV series by Bernstein

understood the role that mass media could play in popularizing music

123
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“La Revue Blanche”

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paper for which Debussy was a critic

124
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“Romeo & Juliet”

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inspiration for Bernstein’s “West Side Story”

125
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Count Franz von Walsegg

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commissioned Mozart’s final Requiem mass

intended to claim it as his own

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