tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716509980377809016.post4141073263609407499..comments2024-03-11T10:20:01.582-07:00Comments on The Rehearsal Studio: "Once in Love with Amy"Stephen Smoliarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14689767135234237242noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716509980377809016.post-35113980422018515082008-06-27T10:56:00.000-07:002008-06-27T10:56:00.000-07:00I received electronic mail from one of my neighbor...I received electronic mail from one of my neighbors who detected and corrected an erroneous statement I made about Amy Beach's piano concerto. She provided me with the following correction: "As to the Concerto premiere, it was on April 7, 1900, Beach at the keyboard with the Boston Symphony on their home turf, 15 years before she played it in San Francisco on American Composers' Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition on 8/1/1915." Having set the record straight on dates, I decided to check out the date for Busoni's piano concerto. It turns out to have been completed and published in 1904; so, in the grand scheme of music history, we could view it as a "contemporary." I know the Busoni only through my CD (performance requires a male chorus and the overall length is about the same as Beethoven's ninth symphony); but I suspect that my listening experience will be with me when I finally get a chance to hear the Symphony Parnassus performance of the Beach concerto!Stephen Smoliarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14689767135234237242noreply@blogger.com