First Nights Five Musical Premieres
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other souses, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a flesh appreciation of these five masterwoks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.
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