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NYP 12-10: Haitink 01
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VO: And this week…
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(MUSIC UP AND UNDER)
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VO: We have the first of two programs featuring
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Bernard Haitink conducting the orchestra.
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This time, he leads two famous works reflecting
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something in the way of “program music”:
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Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote…and the
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Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven, “Pastoral.”
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We’ll hear from the two soloists in the Strauss
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during our broadcast:
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Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps and Principal
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cello Carter Brey…and we’ll also visit with
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Bernard Haitink on this edition of…The New York
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Philharmonic This Week.
New York Philharmonic
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(MUSIC UP AND OUT )
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(ACTUALITY 01: cindy and carter?)
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VO: Principal viola Cynthia Phelps and Principal
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Cello Carter Brey on the work that opens our
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broadcast: Don Quixote, Op. 35: Fantastic
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Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character.
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Strauss based this work on the novel Don
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Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes—a
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masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age.
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title character is a 50-something Spanish
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retired country gentleman who lives in Spain’s
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La Mancha region with his niece and
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housekeeper. While mostly a rational man, Don
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Quixote is obsessed with books of chivalry and
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these have a profound effect on him: In
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essence, he believes that every word of these
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fantastic stories is true. This conviction
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distorts his wits and leads to many haphazard
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“adventures.”
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(MUSIC)
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VO: Composed in Munich in 1897, Strauss’s Don
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Quixote is dedicated to Joseph Dumont and calls
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for a large orchestra…with the title character
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being represented by a solo cello. Here’s
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Carter Brey to discuss this iconic part:
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(ACTUALITY 02: carter with musical buttons)
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VO: In addition, Sancho Panza—Don Quixote’s squire—
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is represented musically mostly by a solo viola
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(though after some brief mentions in the bass
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clarinet and the tenor tuba.)
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viola Cythia Phelps, who joined us by phone to
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explain :
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Here’s Principal
(ACTUALITY 03: cindy with musical button?)
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(MUSIC)
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VO: Don Quixote unfolds in the form of a Theme with
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10 variations plus a finale with each section
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representing a different part of the novel.
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particular highlight is the 8th variation which
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includes a wind-machine in its scoring.
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(APPLAUSE)
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VO: …and we go down to the stage now for Don
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Quixote by Richard Strauss.
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Cynthia Phelps are the solosits…and Bernard
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Haitink conducts…The New York Philharmonic.
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(MUSIC)
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(APPLAUSE)
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VO: Don Quixote.
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Carter Brey and
Music by Richard Strauss. The New
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York Philharmonic was conducted by Bernard
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Haitink.
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Principal cello Carter Brey and Principal viola
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Cynthia Phelps.
As soloists in the work, we heard
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(SLIGHT PAUSE)
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VO: Our broadcast will conclude shortly when Mr.
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Haitink returns to the stage to lead a
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performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6.
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are listening to The New York Philharmonic This
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Week.
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(ID)
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(ACTUALITY)
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VO: Conductor Bernard Haitink.
You
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VO: “No man can love the country so much as I.
I
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love a tree more than a man.”
So remarked
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Ludwig van Beethoven.
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now with Beethoven’s Ode to Nature: The
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Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, “Pastoral.”
Our broadcast continues
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(MUSIC)
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VO: In Notes on the Program, New York Philharmonic
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Program Annotator James M. Keller writes of
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this work quote “Beethoven was not one to speak
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more than was necessary of his compositional
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methods and intentions, and he voiced the
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opinion that listeners were generally
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restricted in their experience of a work if
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they expected in advance to hear some image
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depicted.
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VO: Mr. Keller goes on to write quote,
“Nonetheless, there is no question that tone
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painting and “situations to discover” exist
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bountifully in this symphony, and Beethoven
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clearly condoned the use of the title Pastoral
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in its connection even as he clung to arguments
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downplaying the music’s [ties to a particular
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program.]
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(ACTUALITY)
Here again is Bernard Haitink:
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VO: When this work was given its premiere at the
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Theater an der Wien on December 22, 1808, it
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was listed as “Recollections of Life in the
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Country, in F-major, No. 5.”
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numbering was wrong.
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concert was a marathon musical event that also
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saw the premieres of the Fifth Symphony (listed
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then as a Grand Symphony in c-minor, No. 6),
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the G-major piano concerto, and numerous other
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works by the composer, adding up to a 4-hour
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evening. There were problems with the
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orchestra, the Hall was freezing, and
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Beethoven’s scores were a mess…but the music
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persevered…and the three works I cited have, of
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course gone on to be repertoire staples.
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And here once more is Bernard Haitink to
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discuss his approach to this music:
Yes, the
This oft-discussed
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(ACTUALITY)
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(APPLAUSE)
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VO: …and we go down to the stage for the Symphony
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No. 6 by Beethoven.
Bernard Haitink
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conducts…the New York Philharmonic.
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(APPLAUSE)
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VO: Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven, “Pastoral.”
The
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New York Philharmonic was conducted by Bernard
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Haitink.
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VO: Mr. Haitink will return to conduct the New York
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Philharmonic next week in a program of works by
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Haydn and Bruckner.
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preview:
Here he is with a brief
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(ACTUALITY)
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VO: Our producer Mark Travis gives us a preview:
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PROMO for NYP 12-11
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VO: Next time, on The New York Philharmonic This
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Week:
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We hear Haydn’s “Miracle” Symphony and the
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Symphony No. 7 by Anton Bruckner.
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Baldwin.
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returns to conduct…The New York Philharmonic
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This Week.
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I’m Alec
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