In Performance; Vermont Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven in Middlebury (Vermont)

From the field house on the campus of Middlebury College in Middlebury Vermont. This is Frank Kaufman welcoming you to the last in a series of four concerts featuring even months in the orchestra every geeky music director and conductor. This program was recorded on Sunday March 30th 1980 and is a Beethoven program with the Coriolanus overtures Opus 62 and the Ninth Symphony in the key of D minor. The Middlebury College Choir and the Middlebury community chorus joined the Vermont Symphony Orchestra for this performance of the Ninth Symphony with solo as Donna Simone Davis Soprano Leah Littlefield and that's all Soprano James Dean baritone and Dale Smith. Tenor. The first work on this all Beethoven program was composed by Beethoven in 18 07 and overtures to the tragedy by the Viennese poet Heinrich Yosef and colony. This is about the Roman general Coriolanus.

The overture centers on this psychological conflict which is the climax of Coriolanus his career. According to the story Coriolanus is a Roman general a proud and reckless bravery while those successful militarily is exiled for his arrogant and insulting attitude toward the populace of Rome in revenge he joins the enemy and leads them against his native city scorning many peace emissaries from the city. His resolution finally wavers when his wife and young son are sent to plead with him. He sacrifices his righteous revenge for a higher ideal and in Collins's version of the story commits suicide. EPHRON conducts the Vermont symphony orchestra in the Coriolanus overtures Opus 62 by van Beethoven. Will.

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also be set by a variety of financial and legal problems during this period. He was at the time involved in a lawsuit with Johann my zelo inventor of the metronome. Following the death of his brother in 1815 Beethoven was also deep in a five year court battle to gain custody over his nephew. Thoughts of a symphony in the key of D minor were noted in Beethoven's sketchbooks as early as 1812. The composer had first announced that he intended to set the verses of Schiller's Ode to Joy as early as 1793. He considered various projects for the poem during his career but it was not until 18 22 when the Ninth was well along that he outlined the final movement using the poem as a text for a choral setting. By the end of 18 23 the symphony was completely sketched out and by 18 24 Beethoven had scored the entire work. The first performance was given in Vienna on May 7th 1820 for

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