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    Beloved Brahms

    Beloved Brahms

    Chamber Music PLUS

    January 4, 2009

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    Classical music is often typecast as mired in the past, and with good reason - just consider the vast majority of CDs and concert-hall programs, which consist almost entirely of repertoire at least 100 years old. Yet, the composers of the past whom we most admire (in retrospect, that is - they often struggled to appeal to their own audiences) were not the conservatives but rather those who were in the forefront of innovation of their eras or who found and developed a contemporary niche without looking backward. Johannes Brahms was different - he unabashedly turned to the past for contemporary relevance. Brahms came to be regarded as the pillar of conservatism and was vaunted by the influential critic Eduard Hanslick as a pure musician whose work was imbued with intrinsic beauty, a rampart against the threat of Wagner and the progressives who sought to express personal thoughts and feelings in their music. On December 31, 1899 as the final hours of the 19th century approach, Eduard Hanslick looks back on the politics and art of the 1800s. The battle between Brahms, a believer in 'absolute' music using the forms of fugues, sonatas, symphonies, and Wagner, who felt these forms were obsolete and a 'new music was needed for contemporary truths to be revealed. Experience the highly charged atmosphere between the Brahmsian and Wagnerite camps of true believers.

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    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      January 4, 2009

      Times:
      Sunday 3:00pm

    • Venue Info

      Berger Performing Arts Center

      1200 West Speedway Boulevard Tucson, AZ 85701

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      Greater Arizona

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