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Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
A Birthday Tribute to Maestro Herbert Blomstedt
November 3, 2007

Chadwick: Jubilee (from Symphonic Sketches) | Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major | Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in d minor, op. 107 "Reformation"


George Chadwick (1854-1931)
Jubilee (from Symphonic Sketches)

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(Winter 2001): 641-643.

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Mercury, [197-].

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Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major

Adagio sostenuto assai
Allegro agitato assai
Allegro moderato
Allegro deciso
Marziale un poco meno allegro
Allegro animato
Stretto (molto accelerando)

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Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1996.

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2007. <www.kennedy-center.org>

Jacobson, Bernard. Liner Notes. “Franz Liszt (1811-1886).” London Philharmonic Orch. Cond. Bernard Haitink. LP.

RCS Red Seal, [1964].

Lyons, James. Liner Notes. “Liszt: Concertos 1 and 2.” London Symphony Orch. Cond. Rene Leibowitz. LP.

Dynagroove Recording, 1964.

Rosenblatt, Jay M. “The Concerto as Crucible: Franz Liszt’s Early Works for Piano and Orchestra.” PhD., University

of Chicago, 1995. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, <http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did= 741131011

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New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970.

Stevens, Denis. “Franz Liszt (1811-1886).” The Concerto. Edited by Ralph Hill. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1978.

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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No. 5 in d minor, op. 107 "Reformation"
Andante~Allegro maestoso
Allegro vivace
Andante
Choral~Allegro vivace~Allegro maestoso

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Their Music in History
. Edited by John M. Cooper. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Ellman, Donald. “The Symphony in 19 th Century Germany.” A Companion To The Symphony. Edited by Robert

Layton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Grey, Thomas. “The Orchestral Music.” The Mendelssohn Companion. Edited by Douglass Seaton. Connecticut:

Greenwood Press, 2001.

Holoman, D. Kern. Evenings with the Orchestra: A Norton Companion for Concertgoers. New York: W.W.

Norton & Company, 1956.

Schonberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1970.

Silber, Judith. “Mendelssohn and His Reformation Symphony.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 15,

no. 2 (Summer 1987): 311-336.

Stauffer, George B. “Gewandhaus and Other Orchestras.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 30 October 2007.

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