Episode 18: American Conductor Leonard Slatkin
For the Culture Monster season finale, I speak with conductor Leonard Slatkin about his remarkable career and his new book, “Classical Crossroads.” I also endorse music by David Lang and Alan Hovhaness.
LINKS
The film “Olympia” documenting the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
https://thesportjournal.org/article/leni-riefenstahls-olympia-brilliant-cinematography-or-nazi-propaganda/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LOPhRq3Es
David Lang is an American composer known for his association with “Bang on a Can”
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/24/89442735/david-lang-wins-music-pulitzer
https://bangonacan.org/about_us/
“Cheating, Lying, Stealing” originally for chamber ensemble, heard here in a later version for band.
https://davidlangmusic.com/music/cheating-lying-stealing-arr-band/
Leonard Slatkin conducted the premiere of Lang’s first orchestral work with the Boston Symphony in 1991.
“International Business Machine”
https://davidlangmusic.com/music/international-business-machine/
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
https://hovhaness.com/hovhaness-biography.html
Mysterious Mountain- Symphony no. 2
https://hovhaness.com/hovhaness-mysterious-mountain.html
“Five Sacred Trees” Album from John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra which includes “Mysterious Mountain”
https://open.spotify.com/album/4pjd4sL03OuKTp9nxsyAJo
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/hovhaness-mysterious-mountain/263090524
Leonard Slatkin is an internationally acclaimed conductor, most recently Music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
https://www.leonardslatkin.com/timeline/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Symphony_Orchestra
in 2016, Slatkin made a series of videos showing how conducting works.
Conducting School 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_S0hFw3zDl47TtV7iYbu-XhiuSrkgaW
Slatkin’s latest book is entitled “Classical Crossroads.”
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538152225/Classical-Crossroads-The-Path-Forward-for-Music-in-the-21st-Century
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/classical-crossroads-the-path-forward/9781538152225-item.html?ikwid=classical+crossroads&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0#algoliaQueryId=83201876771428de3e0ddae5987b9caa
Slatkin wrote about his appearance at the Aspen Music Festival at his blog
https://www.leonardslatkin.com/august-2021-a-tale-of-two-orchestras/
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has had many differing interpretations
https://medium.com/the-gleaming-sword/socially-distant-beethovens-fifth-symphony-5b457b0bb019
Leonard Slatkin referred to Leonard Bernstein’s deconstruction of Beethovens’s fifth for a 1950s Television show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2HJerMp8A&t
Julia Perry “Short Piece for Orchestra”
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/short-piece-for-orchestra/554425306?i=554425313
Brahms Serenade no. 1
Brahms Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Copland “Organ Symphony” recorded by Leonard Slatkin and the St Louis Symphony Orchestra
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/copland-dance-symphony-short-symphony-organ-symphony/1362101560
Mason Bates “B-Sides” performed by Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrnsy9KHdwQ
Slatkin also recommended music by James Lee III
https://www.jameslee3music.com
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Published August 2021
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