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2 Episodes 1974 - 1974
Episode 0
Tue, Oct 1, 197460 mins
Respighi's "The Fountains of Rome" and Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 ("The Inextinguishable") are performed by Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony.
Episode 1
Sun, Oct 6, 1974
Seiji Ozawa is the first conductor at the podium in this 12-part concert series featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The opening program spotlights the work of French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). The pieces performed include "Symphonie Fantastique," a tone poem written in 1830, and the dramatic "Roman Carnival Overture," originally intended as the prelude to the second act of an opera.
Episode 2
Sun, Oct 13, 1974
Two musical firsts are conducted by Seiji Ozawa. Haydn's Symphony No. 1, the first composition in that form, and Stravinsky's "The Firebird," his first acknowledged masterpiece.Haydn's work differs in form from later symphonies in having only three movements and lasting barely 10 minutes. Stravinsky's ballet reflects the 19th-century Russian tradition of his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.