Monthly Archives: July 1998

Four Play

Here’s a new name for you: Emil Frantisek Burian, Czech composer (1904-59), imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp but survived, journalist, socialist activist and experimental stage director. A recording on ECM of Burian’s Fourth Quartet, composed in 1947, marks his … Continue reading

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War and Peace:

It’s entirely possible that Gustav Mahler did not compose his Second Symphony with the Hollywood Bowl in mind; yet the two artifacts, the grandiose hullabaloo of a symphony from 1894 and the performance space imposed upon some impressive Cahuenga Pass … Continue reading

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Prize Packages

Among the piano soloists listed for this summer’s concerts at the Hollywood Bowl are Garrick Ohlsson, who in 1970 won the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw; Jon Nakamatsu, who won last year’s Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth; Natalia Troull, … Continue reading

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