Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven and Foss

From historic Music Hall in Cincinnati we bring you another in a series of recorded concerts of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. These programs recorded during performance at his recall by W.G. U.S. of them the University of Cincinnati station. Made possible. Through a grant from the National Association of educational broadcasters. And with the cooperation of the Cincinnati musicians Association. On this concert. The distinguished young American composer pianist and conductor Lucas fause is the guest conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Lukas Foss was composing at an age when most youngsters hardly know their alphabet. One in one thousand twenty two he was a pupil of Henderson and later a pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra under series because of the. Rest of us are selected and over to our number two as the opening selection of this concert.

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That was the opening selection of AV program by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The Leonardo but you are number two with 72 Beethoven. Guest Conductor Lucas FOSS. As a Knology. The applause of the audience. Right now while some late comers are being seated here at music hall we can tell you something

further about Mr. Foss career and also the selection which we are to hear next. The third movement of his symphony of corals. While Mr. Voss was pianist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra he worked very closely with its conductor series because it's. One of his duties being to play new scores for the conductor on piano alone. He could read an orchestral score and transcribe it on the piano as he read it because of its key and turn did greatly aid Fosses career by introducing the many of his compositions awards along the way and his career included a Pulitzer Prize at the age of 19 a Guggenheim fellowship at 23 a Fulbright hippie dome and many others. Mr. Voss output has been mainly concentrated in vocal and choral compositions. With a number of opera and ballet works as well as piano and all Kestrel compositions. He composed his symphony of corrals in honor of Dr Albert Schweitzer. By

commission of the because of its Music Foundation. This work was written during one hundred fifty six to nine hundred fifty eight in California. And given its first complete before months by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in October of 958 it is Mr. Foss Second Symphony his first having been composed in 1904. He based each of the four movements of the symphony on a different Corallo tune taken from the collected growls of Johann Sebastian Bach. However Bach himself did not compose the choral melodies but often made use of existing tunes. And the individual movements might be described as extended symphonic. Choral preludes. There are no vocal parts but the meaning of the words dictates the expression and the mood of the music. We are to hear the third. Experience. Of the form of the internet so. The words being in our slumber does descend on a man beast town and land. He said movement Lukas Foss symphony of corrals.

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In. I. Hope this farce has just conducted the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in the third movement of his own composition the symphony of course. It's. A mandolin. Is played by a lot of may look if you're a member of the first violin section of the orchestra. Next on our program we ought to hear Francesca the Riemannian of Tchaikovsky. The story of course has become one of the great stories of the Western world. Probably because it has become a symbol of the sin of adultery. Its main characters are fundamentally good people caught up fatalistically it inevitable chain of circumstance.

Lucas Voss conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In the tone poem Francesca Damon the Tchaikovsky.