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It was Asyla, the orchestral piece he wrote for Rattle and the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1997, that propelled the young composer into the limelight.
Glazunov was hardly Sergei Rachmaninoff's favorite conductor: while in a drunken stupor, he led the famously botched première of the Symphony No. 1, which sent the traumatized younger composer into a three-year creative block.
And the film reveals his impulsive side: as a young man, he persuaded a friend to arrange a meeting with Prokofiev at which he hectored the composer into agreeing to do something he never did: teach.
Stravinsky's apparent decline and fall from the glories of his Ballet Russes blockbusters is an old story with an old explanation: the loss of his homeland after the Russian Revolution drove the composer into exile.
His choice of music was John Corigliano's sweetly tonal score for François Girard's 1998 film "The Red Violin," as arranged by the composer into his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.
Mr. Salonen plans to compose full time when he leaves the orchestra, and he is certainly developing happily as a composer; into an oeuvre that has always been smart and sometimes thorny are creeping elements of ease, fluidity and fun.
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He also put a lot of other composers into his writing.
Unfortunately, this position has the effect of forcing composers into antiquarian irrelevance, and, deliberately or not, it replicates the prejudices of the autocratic regimes of bygone eras.
After eight concerts in eight days, I found the "maverick" label hazier than ever, particularly when it came time to induct living composers into the club.
At Lincoln Center a three-concert engagement provides a chance to unpack the material, group it thematically and blend later Czech composers into the mix.
Despair at the chaos of the outer world can also, conversely, drive composers into increased engagement with the art of the past.
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