Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 1970 #6 (Reel 1)
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From a music hall in Cincinnati we present another in a series of concerts by the Cincinnati
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Symphony Orchestra. Now in its seventy fifth season. Recorded during
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performance by WG you see the radio station of the University of
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Cincinnati. These programs are made possible through the cooperation of the
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Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Of Cincinnati musicians Association and
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national educational radio. And a guest conductor for this concert is
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Jorge mester. The Orchestra will play the overture to the
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opera. The vestry see Giuliani. I Verity. The Concerto Number
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five in the five major for piano and Marcus traveled for 73 by
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Beethoven with Gina Bach are a soloist and the Symphony Number two
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in C major opus 61 by Robert Schumann.
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The program opens with the Sicilian Vespers by Verity.
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Verity composed this opera in 1854 following the completion of the
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Traviata. The plot deals with the successful attempt of the
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Sicilians in the 13th century to massacre their French overlord.
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The Sicilian Vespers was first performed at the Paris opera during the
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Paris Exhibition of 1855.
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And though it was initially successful the work has not survived
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according to a verity biographer Francis TOI. The overture is the best
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thing about the opera and perhaps the most successful overture Verdi ever
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wrote. It does reflect vividly the tragedy the gloom
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and the occasional fury of opera.
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And now here is our guest conductor Jorge Mester to conduct the Cincinnati Symphony
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Orchestra in the overture to the opera the Sicilian Vespers
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by the bad guy.
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You.
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Why.
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Yeah.
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And.
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Let.
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The end.
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Miller us.
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Military
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will. Let. Her.
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Know.
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Absolute.
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Oh. Oh oh.
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Oh oh
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Iraq.
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Oh Iraq.
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YEAH
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YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH
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YEAH.
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Eh eh. Eh eh.
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EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH EH.
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Eh eh.
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Illegible.
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Leg.
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Length. Leg.
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Length.
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And
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leg.
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Much. Much.
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Much.
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We just heard the overture to Verdi's opera the best free feature me on
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the Sicilian Vespers as played by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
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Our guest conductor Jorge Mester family music director A Powerful Noise.
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Next the picture of the number five in E-flat major for piano and orchestra Opus
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73 by Beethoven with Gina Bach car as soloist.
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The last of Beethoven's piano concertos was composed in 89 in Vienna.
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While the city was occupied by Napoleon's troops. At one time Beethoven
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had seen Napoleon as a heroic figure as a liberator and champion of the peoples rights.
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When the ambitious general declared himself emperor. The composer's faith was
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shattered. Beethoven is supposed to have cried. Is he to nothing more than
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an ordinary human being. Now he too will trample on all the rights of
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man and indulge only his ambition.
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The polling then was certainly not the Emperor of the Emperor Concerto in
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fact. Beethoven never called the work the Emperor Concerto the widely accepted
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theory is that a music publisher gave it this title Some years later to convey the
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power and majesty of the music. It's possible too that the publisher had an
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actual emperor in mind. If so it must have been His Imperial Highness
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Rudolf Archduke of Austria to whom the work is dedicated.
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Now here is our soloist. You know my car. Followed by Maestro for his master
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will conduct Madame boxcars.
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And this infinity Symphony Orchestra and the piano Thank you have a number five in the five
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make you by the.
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Way.
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The Illinois.
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News.
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News.
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News.
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We'll. See.
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Oh
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earth.
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You own a.
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Song.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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The end. The
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end.
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To the
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end.
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And threw.
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A at.
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The end. In
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a.
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Suit.
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Such.
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And thought.
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Illinois.
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Law A.
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And.
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Yeah.
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The third
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thing.
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A if.
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I am.
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I even when.
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The.
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The the and the out
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the only. Elaine in
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Illinois
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said.
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earning
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a. Blue.
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Blue.
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Low. Milk.
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Low.
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What.
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for.
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What. Up.
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Nothing.
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Near. Her.
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Yeah.
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Do you.
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Meet.
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With the sun.
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The best.
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The best thing.
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To.
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Yeah but.
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The brain.
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The ear.
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The air.
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Thanks.
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We just heard you know about our as. Soloist in the Concerto Number five
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in the five majors for piano and Archer for. Opus 73 by
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Beethoven the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by.
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Our A.M.
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hour a soloist dean of Akbar is often called Queen of the piano.
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You were born three made her debut there in the 1830s think her
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career was interrupted by World War. 2 when she was stranded in the Middle East. For
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six years after the war by the boxcar began a new.
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Age The New York Review in 1950 for the past 20 years
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she's been touring the world. Playing in over. 30 cities a year in.
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America alone.
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DAKAR is intimately associated with the Greek royal family especially with
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princes. I read he's been a serious pupil of Madame Bach ours for many
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years. Their most recent appearance together was with the Cincinnati
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Symphony Orchestra in London during the 1069
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European tour.
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Our guest conductor Jorge Mester is currently music director of the Louisville
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the harmonic society. Born in Mexico City has lived
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in the United States since he was 10 years old.
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If Nestor has conducted many of the great orchestras of the
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world including the Los Angeles Philharmonic the Boston Symphony
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symphony of the air and the Japan Philharmonic.
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In 1968 our guest conductor was named winner of the numbered Foundation
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Award. This was only the second time Mr. Warren has been given
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to a conductor.
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The field of opera remaster has conducted the American premiere of opera
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Die. In the mid. END. And Sessions as conductor of the
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band. Her master has been associated with foundation
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for you Robert Jeffrey company and.
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The American Ballet Theater.
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Now in an intermission time at Cincinnati Music Hall and we pause
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for station identification. This is the national
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educational radio network.
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