Respighi’s “Trittico Botticelliano” by way of the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra. I note that Benjamin serves on the Schenectady Symphony Board of Directors. Trittico botticelliano. Festa Italiana – January 17, 2015. Trittico Botticelliano. PROGRAM NOTES Notes by David R. Old Wine in New Bottles Monday. Freerapid Downloader 0.9u2 Portable.

The VSO offers a five-concert Saturday Masterworks series at the Flynn Center in Burlington. All concerts begin at 8:00 p.m. And are preceded at 7:00 p.m. By Musically Speaking, a free pre-concert discussion that provides entertaining insight into the evening’s program. Anthony Princiotti conducts our second concert in the series, to be performed Saturday, December 5, at the Flynn Center in Burlington. Click 'Keep reading!'

To peruse the program notes. Trittico Botticelliano Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) In 1900 Respighi left his job as an orchestral violinist in Bologna, Italy to travel to St. There he was to play first viola for the Russian Imperial Theater's season of Italian opera. More important, the move brought him within striking distance of his goal to receive instruction in composition and orchestration from his idol, Rimsky-Korsakov. At his earliest opportunity, Respighi called on the Russian master and found a throng of like-minded admirers. After glancing at one of Respighi's scores, Rimsky-Korsakov announced, 'I can see nobody else today!'

And closeted himself with his young pupil, becoming his instructor for the five remaining months of Respighi's Russian stay. Encouraged by his early teacher in Bologna to recognize that music other than opera deserved to be written (revolutionary thinking in Italy!), Respighi became the great Italian orchestral composer of his time. Involved in scholarly interests as well, he revered the Italian legacy of Renaissance music and art. Trittico Botticelliano (Three Botticelli Pictures) is the composer’s musical impression of three paintings by the Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. An evocative blend of the classical and romantic, the work was commissioned by Washington arts philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in 1926 following a tour of the United States by Respighi as pianist/conductor. La Primavera - 'Spring.” The painting is a sylvan scene including shepherds, nymphs, the goddess Flora and the three Graces.