In the “War of the Romantics, “where do you stand? In Austria and Germany and most of Europe during Beethoven, Brahms, and Wagner’s time, there were no political parties. The American and French Revolutions had not impacted all. Musical conservatives and liberals, however, did take sides. Composer Richard Strauss’s father was a famous musician of
“Maria” from Westside Story by Bernstein, the “Prelude to Tristan and Isolde” by Wagner and Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” all feature a musical interval that can stir emotions and the catholic church tried to ban. An interval is a distance between any two notes. These two musical notes have become known as the “Devils Interval”. This
Mozart, Vivaldi, and Hendrix are considered music stars from their time period. All three were considered virtuosos, revolutionary performers, and composers. The term Rock Star is a 20th-century notion. In the time of Vivaldi and Mozart, wealthy popular musicians did not really exist. The modern media and the free market aided Jimi Hendrix in a
The Westwood Ensemble Piano and String Concert has a varied mix of composers. A baroque masterwork, two great Romantics, a mid-20th-century composer and living composer are featured. Joe Green (Giuseppe Verdi) starts our program with the Prelude to the opera La Traviata. “The Fallen Woman” is the translation of the title and story is based