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Peter Wisse wrote:
>As far as I know, Bizet wrote only one, It is a beautiful piece of music,
>especially the second movement.
Most especially the oboe solo in that movement. Bizet did another piece
called the Roma Symphony, which I don't know, but I have loved the one
in question all my life. Bizet wrote it as a student and it languished,
I think in the archives of the Paris Conservatoire until 1935 or so. It
has been said that it was derivative from the symphonies of Gounod, his
teacher I believe, but I've never heard that in them. Gounod's are OK
but just don't generate the rhythmic or melodic excitement of Bizet's.
Scott Morrison:
>Better known, I suspect, is the ballet George Balanchine did to the Bizet
>Symphony in C, choreographed for the Paris Opera Ballet, premiered in 1948.
>The New York City Ballet was formed the following year with Balanchine as
>director; the piece has remained in that company's repertory from that time
>to this day.
I saw this production--and Balanchine himself running up the aisle--at a
Ballett-Abend in Zurich back around 1971, when I was able to get in at a
Studentenpreis. Obviously memorable.
Jim Tobin
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