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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: NEC Philharmonia + Loebel\nEvent Url: http://www.ar
 tsboston.org/event/detail/441656423/NEC_Philharmonia_Loebel\nEvent Date Be
 gin: 2013-02-13\nEvent Date End: 2013-02-13\n\n David Loebel\, Associate D
 irector of Orchestras\, conducts the NEC Philharmonia in an all-Hungarian 
 program. He opens with the much neglected Ernest von Dohn&aacute\;nyi'sSui
 te in F-sharp minor from 1909. Richard Freed\, the critic and annotator ha
 s written of the work: 'Anyone who has ever heard Dohn&aacute\;nyi's orche
 stral Suite in F-sharp minor\, Op.19\, must wonder about the incredible ne
 glect of so substantial\, brilliant and altogether ingratiating a work. Th
 ere is not a single empty gesture in its half-hour span. Its four movement
 s -- a dazzlingAndante con variazioni\, a sly and bristlingScherzo\, a lyr
 ic and songful Romanza\, a rumbustious\, exultant concluding Rondo(with a 
 big\, sweeping waltz and castanets) -- call to mind the pianist Artur Schn
 abel's reference to the Schubert sonatas as 'a safe supply of happiness.'
 \nThe piece is pure enchantment\, with its abundance of good tunes\, imagi
 native orchestral coloring (including some delicious solo passages for cla
 rinet and cello)\, its prevailing sense of fantasy\, remarkable range of m
 ood\, and unforced charm.' Loebel himself describes the Suite as 'full of 
 Hungarian paprikash.'\nA Bart&oacute\;k Piano Concerto (tba) follows with 
 the solo performed by the winner of an NEC concerto competition.\nThe prog
 ram closes with Zoltan Kod&aacute\;ly's Galanta Dances\, a setting of folk
  dances from area (now a part of Slovakia) where the composer spent much o
 f his childhood. Kodaly wrote in the preface to the printed score: 'The au
 thor spent the most beautiful seven years of his childhood in Gal&aacute\;
 nta. The town band\, led by the fiddler Mih&oacute\;k\, was famous.  But i
 t must have been even more famous a hundred years earlier. Several volumes
  of Hungarian dances were published in Vienna around the year 1800. One of
  them lists its source this way: 'from several Gypsies in Gal&aacute\;nta'
 ... May this modest composition serve to continue the old tradition.'
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SUMMARY:NEC Philharmonia + Loebel
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