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program notes: 1918-1939: Breaking away
Janáček: Podhádka ("Fairy Tale") In 1910, both Igor Stravinsky and Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) made musical settings of Russian folk tales. Stravinsky's famous Firebird ballet for full orchestra was quite literal and became world famous. Janáček’s Fairy Tale, a more...
Program Notes: 1918-1939: 19th century Echoes
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing: Suite for String Quartet, Op. 11 (composer’s adaptation) Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) is well known to classic movie buffs as the composer of scores to such adventure films as Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and...