Fifties
Capricious witticisms
Oct 18 2013
Open any book on music history at the year 1950 and you will read about young, daring composers and performers and boundless experimentation. However, the post-war years had more to offer than, for instance, the modernism of Bruno Maderna.
This is made apparent by the capricious witticisms of André Jolivet’s Rhapsodie à sept or by the septets of Igor Stravinsky and Kees van Baaren, in which twelve-tone serialism enters into a fresh alliance with neoclassical forms. The fifties were also the source of inspiration for Michael Daugherty’s Dead Elvis, a hip-jerking requiem for the ‘King of Rock ‘n Roll’.
Artists
Bruno Maderna
Serenata N. 2
Igor Stravinsky
Septet
André Jolivet
Rhapsodie à sept
Kees van Baaren
Septet
Luigi Dallapiccola
Piccola musica notturna
Michael Daugherty
Dead Elvis
Asko|Schönberg
conductor
Etienne Siebens
bassoon
Margreet Bongers