In little more than a month, the contessa's peeled skin will tremble very slightly with Endymion's season-opening performance of pieces by Bartók, Holt, Kondo and Castiglioni.
Intact musical procedural memory alone would not predict B.R.'s successful performance of pieces cued from an initial fragment or in a form other than the trumpet arrangement in which he had learned them.
Abbado's concerts weren't mere performances of pieces of music, they were searing, transformative existential journeys.
His festival will look partly back to the chamber music he admired in his youth, including performances of pieces by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartok and Shostakovich.
An hour and a half was being devoted to problems of playing and programming adventurous music, including performances of pieces by Edgard Varese and Arnold Schoenberg, Peter Lieberson and Jacob Druckman.
Richard Howard, a Proust translator, reads some of that prose amid performances of pieces associated with Proust, including chamber works by Saint-Saëns and Franck, and songs by Reynaldo Hahn sung by the appealing tenor Nicholas Phan.
The program was filled out with repeat performances of pieces heard the previous day: Mr. Lindberg's long Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, and Mr. Knussen's "Ophelia's Last Dance".
This was pursued further in the winter of 2010 11, in public performances of pieces from the album in the US and Europe.
"That's 10,675," said Mr. Sansonia, a composer and lyricist who took part in the mass performance of the piece on Friday.
