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    Serge Koussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky; Russian: Сергей Александрович Кусевицкий, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kʊsʲɪˈvʲitskʲɪj];...
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  • orchestra has had 17 music directors, including George Henschel, Serge Koussevitzky, Henri Rabaud, Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf, William...
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    Orchestra took place at the Bolshoi Theatre on 4 May 1919, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky During the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 34 members of the theatre were...
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), under the direction of Conductor Serge Koussevitzky, was invited to perform at the 1936 festival held at Holmwood, the...
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    Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky. According to several HCM-analyses by Zappalà, Mothé-Diniz, as well as Milani and Knežević, Koussevitzky is a core member...
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  • (1940–2022), French writer and academic Konan Serge Kouadio (born 1988), Ivorian footballer Serge Koussevitzky (1874–1951), Russian-born Jewish conductor...
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  • It is titled after W. H. Auden's eponymous poem, and dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky. A friend is claimed to have given Bernstein the idea to write music...
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    Leonard Bernstein (category Pupils of Serge Koussevitzky)
    the BSO's music director, Serge Koussevitzky, who became a profound lifelong inspiration to Bernstein. He became Koussevitzky's conducting assistant at...
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    During the 1930s the Eighth Symphony's premiere was promised to Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on several occasions, but as each...
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    Finale (Allegro molto) Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting Problems playing these files? See media help. The Symphony...
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  • Karl Gutheil (born 1851) took over the business. He sold the firm to Serge Koussevitzky in 1914 who absorbed it into his publishing firm Editions Russes....
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    Symphony of Psalms (category Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation)
    1930 during his neoclassical period. The work was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
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    Peter Grimes (category Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation)
    and Pears were waiting for a passage back to England, the conductor Serge Koussevitzky asked the composer why he had not written an opera. Britten explained...
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  • W45, "Romantic", was written by Howard Hanson on commission from Serge Koussevitzky for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1930...
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  • Piano Concerto No. 1 (Ginastera) (category Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation)
    Op. 22, written in 1952. It is dedicated to the memory of Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky. The concerto has a duration of roughly 25 minutes and is composed...
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  • in 1940 as the Berkshire Music Center by the BSO's music director, Serge Koussevitzky, three years after the establishment of Tanglewood as the summer home...
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  • Symphony No. 3 (Copland) (category Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation)
    October 18, 1946 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing under Serge Koussevitzky. If the early Dance Symphony is included in the count, it is actually...
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  • double bass previously belonging to Serge Koussevitzky and Gary Karr. Now generally referred to as the Karr-Koussevitzky rather than the Amati; until recently...
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  • playing the violin part and the Paris Opera Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. Igor Stravinsky made his debut as conductor at the same concert,...
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    Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók) (category Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation)
    written in response to a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation (run by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky) following Bartók's move to the United States...
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    Although early advocates such as Robert Kajanus, Sir Thomas Beecham, and Serge Koussevitzky had conducted many of Sibelius's symphonies for gramophone in the...
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    Symphony No. 4 (Prokofiev) (category Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation)
    Symphony No. 2 in D minor premiered in Paris under the baton of Serge Koussevitzky in the summer of 1925, to tepid critical response. At the same time...
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    Petrushka (1911) and then The Rite of Spring. In a note to the conductor Serge Koussevitzky in February 1914, Stravinsky described Le Sacre du printemps as "a...
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    Recordings of Peter and the Wolf" in Three Oranges, No. 12: November 2006, Serge Prokofiev Foundation; retrieved 23 May 2009. Portal: Classical music...
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    in 1902 for the double bass. The concerto was composed in 1902 by Serge Koussevitzky. The composer dedicated the concerto to Natalie Ouchkoff, his fiancé...
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    instrument, the Karr-Koussevitzky bass, to the ISB. This instrument was given to Karr by Olga Koussevitzky, widow of Serge Koussevitzky, in 1961. It is the...
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  • soloist, Prokofiev premiered this "No. 2" in Paris on 8 May 1924 with Serge Koussevitzky conducting. It is dedicated to the memory of Maximilian Schmidthof...
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  • Monte Carlo. February 25 - Concerto for Dubble Bass and Orchestra by Serge Koussevitzky is premièred in Moscow, with the composer as soloist. February 27...
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    Turangalîla-Symphonie (category Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation)
    an orchestra of large forces from 1946 to 1948 on a commission by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Along with the Quatuor pour la...
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  • who premiered it in 1948 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky. Although the piece is traditionally sung by a soprano, it may also...
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