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  • Pierre Brévignon

    Pierre Brévignon
    2023/11/11
    In this ninth episode, author Pierre Brévignon reflects on his biography "Samuel Barber: Un nostalgique entre deux mondes," adding to his interview in the documentary film. Recorded during Pierre's visit to New York City while writing his first fiction novel, we learn about his later books including "Le Groupe des six: Une histoire des années folles," and then speculate about Samuel Barber's personality and place in history. Pierre's definitive and acclaimed 2011 French-language biography can be found at https://amzn.to/40wJco4 and other bookstores "between two worlds."

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    54 分
  • Tobias Picker

    Tobias Picker
    2022/01/16
    In this eighth episode, composer Tobias Picker reflects on his affinity for Johannes Brahms, his childhood correspondence with Gian Carlo Menotti, and his body of work including Old and Lost Rivers. He also talks about his operatic adaptation of Oliver Sacks' Awakenings and its haunting resonance with the pandemic of our own time. This Capricorn Conversation is a companion to director H. Paul Moon's concert film that includes the composer himself on piano, as seen at: https://vimeo.com/hpmoon/tobiaspicker

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    58 分
  • Jon Deak

    Jon Deak
    2021/11/06
    In this seventh episode, composer Jon Deak talks about his Very Young Composers program that empowers children to create music for orchestras, his long career with the New York Philharmonic, and the endless power of orchestral music. He also reflects with director H. Paul Moon about their collaborative transformation of his concert drama The Passion of Scrooge into a film (scroogeopera.com).

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    1 時間 24 分
  • Steven Mercurio

    Steven Mercurio
    2021/09/02
    In this sixth episode, Maestro Steven Mercurio talks about his emergence as a composer and conductor, and his intersections with mid-20th century American composers including David Del Tredici, Lukas Foss, John Corigliano, and Gian Carlo Menotti leading to his tenure at the Spoleto Festival. Steven addresses the climate of music today, offering hope around politics and the pandemic.

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    2 時間
  • David Del Tredici

    David Del Tredici
    2021/06/27
    In this fifth episode, renowned composer David Del Tredici is joined by pianist Marc Peloquin in a conversation with filmmaker H. Paul Moon, discussing David's distinctive and bold Neo-Romantic body of work, ranging from his settings of Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland," to his piano works performed and recorded by Marc. David recounts his interactions with Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Slatkin, and many more legends in 20th century music.

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    1 時間 8 分
  • Howard Pollack

    Howard Pollack
    2021/06/16
    In this fourth episode, author Howard Pollack talks with filmmaker H. Paul Moon in Brooklyn about his forthcoming biography of Samuel Barber, the latest in his distinguished career writing about other leading American composers and lyricists including Aaron Copland and George Gershwin: https://amzn.to/2S3ngSW

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    1 時間 30 分
  • Barbara Heyman

    Barbara Heyman
    2020/03/11
    In this third episode, author Barbara Heyman talks with filmmaker H. Paul Moon in New York City about the new second edition of her biography about Samuel Barber, almost 30 years after the initial publication of her definitive research that won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Her book is available now from Oxford University Press, and at: https://amzn.to/3c4w8wG

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    1 時間 19 分
  • John Mauceri

    John Mauceri
    2019/08/16
    In this second episode, conductor John Mauceri talks with filmmaker H. Paul Moon in New York City about Gian Carlo Menotti, Leonard Bernstein, and other 20th century contemporaries of Samuel Barber, whose opera Antony and Cleopatra he recounts attending when it opened the Metropolitan Opera House. He also discusses his new book For the Love of Music: A Conductor’s Guide to the Art of Listening, and the worlds of film music and Broadway musicals alongside his distinguished career conducting the world's leading opera companies and symphony orchestras.

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    58 分