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Charles Munch & The Boston Symphony Orchestra - The Historic Telecasts [1962] | Berlioz - Debussy - Ravel
Audio: Mono | DVD5 [no compression] | Format: 4:3 B&W | Region Code 0 | No subtitles | Running time: 95 mins | 4.5 GB
VAI Music # 4317 | Released: 2005 | Performance: Sanders Theatre, Harvard U., 17 April, 1962 | WinRar 5% Rec.
Audio: Mono | DVD5 [no compression] | Format: 4:3 B&W | Region Code 0 | No subtitles | Running time: 95 mins | 4.5 GB
VAI Music # 4317 | Released: 2005 | Performance: Sanders Theatre, Harvard U., 17 April, 1962 | WinRar 5% Rec.
Munch made his début with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 27, 1946. He was its Music Director from 1949 to 1962. Munch was also Director of the Berkshire Music Festival and Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood) from 1951 through 1962. He led relaxed rehearsals which orchestra members appreciated after the authoritarian Serge Koussevitzky. Munch also received honorary degrees from Boston University, Harvard University, and Brandeis University.
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He excelled in the modern French repertoire, especially Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and was considered to be an authoritative performer of Hector Berlioz. However, Munch's programs also regularly featured works by composers such as Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner. His thirteen-year tenure in Boston included 39 world premieres and 17 American first performances, and offered audiences 168 contemporary works. Fourteen of these premieres were works commissioned by the Boston Symphony and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation to celebrate the Orchestra's 75th Anniversary in 1956. (A 15th commission was never completed.)
Munch BIO on Wikipedia
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
From the Archives of Historic Telecasts
CHARLES MUNCH
B&W - DVD5 [no compression] - NTSC
From the Archives of Historic Telecasts
CHARLES MUNCH
B&W - DVD5 [no compression] - NTSC
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
La Mer
MAURICE RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloë
Suite No. 2
Symphonie fantastique
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
La Mer
MAURICE RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloë
Suite No. 2
A WGBH live telecast from
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
17 April 1962
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
17 April 1962
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