Comments on: Last Night in L.A.: Eve Beglarian Premiere http://www.sequenza21.com/2007/06/last-night-in-la-eve-beglarian-premiere/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Wed, 22 May 2013 02:29:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: zeno http://www.sequenza21.com/2007/06/last-night-in-la-eve-beglarian-premiere/comment-page-1/#comment-6906 zeno Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:50:56 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/449#comment-6906 oops … Aaron Copland, of course, as well as composing “The Tender Land” (1 April 1954, NY City Opera), also composed “The Second Hurricane”, for high school students with chorus of parents, libretto by Edwin Denby (1938). … I regret the error above.

http://www.usopera.com/composers/copland.html

]]> By: zeno http://www.sequenza21.com/2007/06/last-night-in-la-eve-beglarian-premiere/comment-page-1/#comment-6862 zeno Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:21:55 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/449#comment-6862 “Alexander Mosolov wrote The Iron Foundry in 1926-1927 … great clanging music by a composer not able to adapt to new rules.” (jz)

Born the same year as Aaron Copland [1900, in Kiev], Mosolov did experience a difficult classical musical career and a personal and professional life stunted/inflected by both alcoholism and imprisonment/exile for a period as a political prisoner/enemy of Stalin.

However, like Copland, he did, apparently at least somewhat successfully, adapt to the radical cultural sea-change from 1920s futurism and modernism to 1930s to 1970s folklorism, social realism, and neo-classicism.

He also found professional time to compose five operas [four more than Aaron Copland] — The Hero (1928, first performed in Moscow in 1989), The Barrage (1930), The Reservoir (1931), The Signal (1941), and Masquerada [after Mikhail Lermontov] (1944).

See Onno van Rijen’s List of Works (in progress) for Alexander Mosolov at:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/mosolov.htm

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