The Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra
November 27, 2022
Reuben Blundell, Conductor

Witold Lutoslawski - Little Suite

Paul  Etheredge's Album

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki [original instrumental]

This second scherzo intensifies Steven's material from the preceding movement. There it received a treatment inspired by Beethoven's scherzos. the general feeling. In this third movement, the material is given a Lutoslawski treatment, paraphrasing the four bars at rehearsal No. 34 in the second movement of his "Concerto for Orchestra."

Symphony No. 31 Mov. III

The Lutoslawski treatment of the tetrachord cluster from the octatonic scale as Stevens used it remembers the influence of Beethoven from earlier in the work.

This movement starts and ends with the most tonal music in the symphony. In between dramatic tensions rise to a fever pitch.

Symphony No. 31 Mov. IV

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Kenneth Lieberson is a composer of symphonies, concertos, ballets, cantatas, tone poems, opera, chamber music, songs. His music has been heard on National Public Radio, at The Library of Congress, Lincoln Center, Queens College, NYU, Stony Brook, CAMI Hall, Merkin Hall and at high and middle schools. His B. M. and M. M. are from Juilliard. He also earned an M.B.A. at NYU's Stern School of Business.

Mr. Lieberson has also written two novellas, dozens of short stories and hundreds of poems.  He illustrated some of these.

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