Manhattan School of Music Program Notes

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by Vittorio Giannini

wswebmaster on November 24, 2018

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by Vittorio Giannini Background As we follow the political thaw in Eastern Europe known as Glasnost. it is fascinating to observe another form of glasnost taking place — this one in the arena of American musical politics. For …

Flagello: Concerto Sinfonico for Saxophone Quartet

wswebmaster on November 19, 2018

NICOLAS FLAGELLO: Concerto Sinfonico for Saxophone Quartet (1985) (NY Premiere) Allegro non troppo Lento movendo (quasi all barcanola) Allegro giusto Manhattan School of Music Philharmonia, Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor. The New Hudson Saxophone Quartet. Nicolas Flagello, one of the last of America’s …

FLAGELLO: The Piper of Hamelin. An Opera in Three Acts. After a Poem by Robert Browning

wswebmaster on November 18, 2018

THE PIPER OF HAMELIN. An Opera in Three Acts. Music and Libretto by Nicolas Flagello. After a Poem by Robert Browning. The Composer Nicolas Flagello was one of the last composers to develop a distinctive mode of expression based wholly …

FLAGELLO: Symphony No. I

wswebmaster on November 18, 2018

Symphony No. 1 by Nicolas Flagello Nicolas Flagello composed his Symphony No. 1 during the years 1964-68; it was first performed in 1971, with the composer himself conducting the symphony orchestra of the Manhattan School of Music. It is Flagello’s largest and most …