NOSPR / Clelia Cafiero - NOSPR

Legend has it that the famous glissando which opens Rhapsody in Blue emerged out of boredom. During interminable rehearsals, the orchestra clarinettist Paul Whiteman supposedly stopped meticulously playing the notes to fuse a scale passage into a free glissando. George Gershwin had no plans to compose a work containing elements of jazz and classical music; he was talked into it by the leader of the orchestra who announced the first performance of the composition without Gershwin’s knowledge. Thirty-three years later, Gunther Schuller coined the term ‘third stream’ for music that represented a halfway house between classical and jazz. Equally fascinated by the music of Duke Ellington, on one hand, and Mozart and Beethoven, on the other, he dreamed of a common language that could be mastered by representatives of both currents. Agreementon a different plane was sought by Ottorino Respighi. He postulated restoring the human element to the art of music, abandoning purely intellectual experiments and turning to past traditions in the context of contemporary music.

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Duration of the concert: approx. 70 minutes