But Mr. Welser-Möst took the "symphony" part of the piece's title seriously, emphasizing its structural coherence.
THE ARTS Because of an editing error, a picture caption on Saturday with a dance review of a program in the New York City Tap Festival, at Symphony Space, misstated the program's title.
The music for this duet was the allegretto movement from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and its title, "Apothéose," presumably derives from Wagner's comment that the score was the "apotheosis of dance".
Symphonic Sounds "Symphonies and Mysteries" is the umbrella title of the Hartford Symphony's season, with "mysteries" referring to an unlisted piece that will pop up on all but one of the classical programs.
The fully staged production, featuring James Javore in the title role and Catherine Stoltz as Rosina, also utilizes the combined forces of the Connecticut Opera and the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of the symphony's music director, Paul Phillips.
After more than a decade, Symphony Space won title, then raised millions by selling rights to a developer to build an apartment building over the theater.
Stravinsky used the word "symphonies" in the title in the ancient sense of the word, meaning sonorities that sound together.
"Sinfonia", after all, is Italian for "symphony", it's just that while we translate the titles of classical works by Mozart and Haydn that their composers called sinfonias into symphonies, with Berio's piece, we somehow don't bother.
First, there's the title, "Ode to Joy," a reference to the popular fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Set to the Prokofiev symphony of the same title, "Classical Symphony" is dedicated to Peter Pestov, a revered teacher of Mr. Possokhov's.
