Ernest Bloch: The man and his music; Episode 7 of 15

Riverside radio presents the seventh in a series of 15 programs. Ernest Bloch the man and his music the commentator for these programs is the composer's daughter and a member of the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music on this week's program you'll hear five sketches in sepia performed by Mario game in its gets a fun task for piano and orchestra with Lauren Hollander and the string quartet number five with the fine arts quartet. And now here is Suzanne block hard sketches infective follow the reading of the same year that he composed often seen these pieces are quite different from the office of cos they are rather unique in his whole outfit for that different texture from anything ever it wrote for The Piano. The atmospheric impersonal sort of abstract the text is light having nothing of block strong rhythmical it Jim. Oh it is indeed an eternal coloring that could be crossed said rightly the piece as follows. PRAED huge. Mr. Levin which means smoke over the city.

The next piece is called Lucy which means fireflies. The very very short rapid piece then comes in says it's huge description it's his in this and feeling of groping. This said as with an epilogue where themes from the preceding pieces which are his memories to a floating base of Jews it isn't the last piece only that a book becomes expressively personal as if you arrive on the set to give his blessing. You will hear the five sketches and performed by Mary Jane at the piano. Why.

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Once again Suzanne block after block had completed his large work for piano and orchestra. The core set was set for Nick. He relaxed from that taxing labor by writing short and everywhere for the same combination. This cat so far task there you let go as ever with a sardonic sense of the grotesque though it is a modern more cheerful and no bastard than this Kitsu of his chamber music. Their work is short carefully constructed and tightly knit it moves without a stop. Now they are three parts to it. The first and they were most was rhythmical into costs of the nine or ironical theme engine shortly using to mutter Ochoa with another theme very blocky and with the usual rhythmic a pattern found in some of his works. A pad was. Considered by some very good break but which could be as well I make an engine this last section has in it some local passages demanding one of parts of the first piano quintet. A section of the first theme is heard but slowly with a different mood. The pace livens up it into un poco

vivo for another theme is heard which I cannot place is very familiar. Seems as if this is one of the primitive tunes Bloch had collected in his early years when he lectured on the very basics of music using these examples as illustration. Their work ends with a bang. There are no messages no pessimism in this Rock's own vitality took over from philosophy. It was dedicated to Cory like Hambali the pianist to give the premiere his concept was Safranek and her husband Tony Luckily you were not here. Sketch of tasks for piano and orchestra performed by Lauren Hollander Andre Previn conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.