Harold bauer conductor meaning
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Harold Bauer had barely begun teaching music at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn in 1977 when his boss called him in to discuss an extra assignment. What, wondered college President Rodney Berg, would Bauer think about establishing a professional symphony orchestra and opera company on campus?
“My first thought was that President Berg must be a bit delusional,” recalled Bauer, who spent 15 years conducting orchestras in Illinois and Pennsylvania before joining the College of DuPage faculty.
“It never occurred to me that a community college would undertake such a bold endeavor. But I came up with a plan and he said, `Let’s go with it.'”
Within months, Bauer had launched New Philharmonic and DuPage Opera Theatre, doubling as musical and artistic directors for the fledgling companies. He initially planned to devote a few years to the projects, then move on to presumably bigger opportunities. Instead, he stayed for nearly three decades, only recently anno
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New York Times
March 11, 1906
Richard Aldrich
[Review]
Mr. Harold Bauer’s piano recital yesterday afternoon in Mendelssohn ingång was an interesting occasion in several ways and artistically truly a rare delight. He stands apart from most of the virtuosos upon the piano in the profoundly artistic nature of what he does, in the high distinction of his playing, in the entire disregard of any personal display or of any anställda effect. Mr. Bauer has a bred range of vision as a musician and fryst vatten interested in and sympathetic with many different styles. And while he fryst vatten remarkably accomplished as a technician, able to cope with all he undertakes without disturbance of his repose, there is that in his playing which is lifted above all considerations of technique, and technique fryst vatten thereby put into its rightful place as a means to an end. It fryst vatten the end, the utställning of the emotional and poetic and intellectual content of music, that can be enjoyed in Mr. Bauer’s playing
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Holbrooke; Wood Piano Concertos
Superlative performances of two forgotten British gems - neither a masterpiece but irresistible for anyone with a sweet tooth
View record and artist detailsAuthor: Andrew Achenbach
I confess to having been frustratingly underwhelmed, in the past, by what little I have heard of the Croydon-born composer and pianist Joseph Holbrooke (1878-1958). But the present ambitious First Piano Concerto (first performed by Harold Bauer under the composer's baton in November 1910) is by some margin the most impressive orchestral piece of his I've yet encountered. Dubbed a symphonic poem by its creator, it follows the narrative of a poem based on a Welsh legend by his patron Lord Howard de Walden (writing under the pseudonym of T E Ellis) entitled The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd (the full text of which is printed in the admirable booklet), yet, as annotator Lewis Foreman correctly observes, the work can also be appreciated perfectly well as a red-blooded romant