Perhaps the fact that Brahms was in his mid-40s by the time he was able to write his first symphony gives him the advantage of maturity, perspective and wisdom.
He remembers the first time the orchestra performed the Eroica Symphony, with a pared-down ensemble similar in size to the one Beethoven used.
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Glass turned seventy-five on January 31st, and Carnegie Hall marked the occasion by presenting the first American performance of his Ninth Symphony, with the American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
Brahms takes us with him on that journey from the depths to the heights in his first symphony.
The face-lift was equally dramatic at the seven-bedroom in Potomac, Md. owned by Daniel and Joan Strishock, who helped out the National Symphony Orchestra this year, after the first prospective show house fell through.
The San Francisco Symphony returns to Southbank Centre for the first time in 19 years conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, while Antonio Pappano will return for the first time since 1998 conducting Rome-based Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia.
Finnish conductor Sakari Orama will lead the opening night with this first concert as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Marin Alsop, the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), was the first speaker in our Conversations on Creative Leadership series at The George Washington University School of Business on Monday.
In September 1956, the Boston Symphony was the first major U.S. orchestra to visit the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and in the fall of 1973, the Philadelphia Orchestra made an unprecedented trip to China.
This project is one of the first of this nature in the UK that uses a full symphony orchestra.
This year, Marin Alsop became music director of the Baltimore Symphony, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.
In 2007, Marin Alsop will become music director of the Baltimore Symphony, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.
He's heading the Symphony Project, one of the first longitudinal studies of its kind on the effects of musical training on brain development.
Marin Alsop is the first woman to be chosen to conduct a major American symphony.
Beethoven was the first to include trombones in symphonic music, introducing them to great dramatic effect in the last movement of his Fifth Symphony (1808).
Schedule six years' worth of dental checkups on your Palm VII while sitting in an airport lounge, or a first flute lesson from the den, at midnight, after coming home from the symphony.
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Its first American performance took place at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, so the Cincinnati Symphony has a warm spot in its collective heart for this neglected piece.
In 1957 he was appointed to his first full-time job, as assistant conductor of the BBC Scottish Orchestra (now the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra).
For all its awkwardness and uncertainty, the film is a city symphony, romantic yet scathing, lyrical with street life and vaulting skylines, reckless with first adventure, and awed by the intellectual and poetic abstractions on which the great machine runs.
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