Thalia Symphony Orchestra: War & Peace
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- Joseph Pollard White, conductor
Franz Joseph Haydn — Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, H. 1/103 "The Drumroll"
Paul Hindemith — Mathis der Maler
Featuring music from the 1930s and the 1790s, this concert looks at the role of the artist during war and peacetime.
Paul Hindemith's (1895-1963) monumental 1934 symphony Mathis der Maler ("Matthias the Painter") seems innocent enough these days. The three movements are inspired by the life of Matthias Grünewald (c. 1475-1528), and modeled after his Isenheim Altarpiece. But this was the year that Hitler officially became Führer. The work was denounced by the Nazis as "degenerate" and banned after one performance.
Written in London, Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major from 1795—in the middle of the wars following with the French revolution—opens with a terrifying timpani roll (hence the nickname "Drumroll" for this symphony) that audiences surely must have understood as an echo of the violence occurring on the Continent.
Aaron Copland's (1900-1990) An Outdoor Overture from 1938 is sunny and expansive, written while the U.S. saw itself at peace.
About Joseph Pollard White, conductor
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