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Peanuts Gallery
''Peanuts Gallery'' is a piano concerto by the American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, inspired by the characters of the comic strip ''Peanuts'' by Charles M. Schulz, who was a friend of Zwilich. It was commissioned for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra by the Carnegie Hall Corporation, and first performed by the pianist Albert Kim and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on March 22, 1997. Zwilich dedicated the piece to Schulz, "in hopes that it will give him a small measure of the pleasure that his ''Peanuts'' characters have given all of us." Background Schulz first learned of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich through a profile of her on ''PBS NewsHour, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour'' in July 1990. In a ''Peanuts'' strip later that year, Peppermint Patty and Marcie attend a concert featuring a flute concerto which Marcie tells Patty is by Ellen Zwilich, who "happens to be a woman." Zwilich contacted Schulz to thank him and the two became friends. Thus, when Carnegie Hall asked Zwilich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Concerto
A piano concerto is a type of concerto, a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for a piano player, which is typically accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuoso showpieces which require an advanced level of technique on the instrument. These concertos are typically written out in music notation, including sheet music for the pianist (which they typically memorize for a more virtuosic performance), orchestra parts for the orchestra members, and a full score for the conductor, who leads the orchestra in the accompaniment of the soloist. Depending on the era in which a piano concerto was composed, the orchestra parts may provide a fairly subordinate accompaniment role, setting out the bassline and chord progression over which the piano plays solo parts (more typical during the Baroque music era, from 1600 to 1750 and the Classical period, from 1730 to 1800), or the orchestra may be given an almost equal ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
