... John Corigliano's Symphony No. 1, "Of Rage and Remembrance," which will be performed by the Juilliard Orchestra under James DePriest at Carnegie Hall: Friday December 12 (tomorrow) at 8PM. Tickets are $10 and $25, half price for students.
Written in 1990 as a personal response to the AIDS crisis, and Cleve Jones's AIDS quilt in particular--Corigliano has said that he lost count of friends who had died after a hundred--the Symphony is a perfect illustration of what I want to talk about here: music that grapples with the world as we live it. It sings, but it also shrieks and cackles. I don't think I've ever heard scarier music.
Stay tuned after the concert for a proper write-up. It's truly a masterpiece, and I hope some of you get to see it.
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Will the performance be recorded and available to the public?
Hi Sebastian,
It will be recorded for Juilliard's archives, but that won't be available to the public.
HOWEVER: if you want a recording of the piece, there is a KILLER recording of it by the National Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. It's up on iTunes and totally worth having.
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