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On 9/9, we share with you Leonard Bernstein’s examination of the superstition surrounding “Ninth” symphonies. What's your favorite Ninth? In an introductory trailer to his Dmitri Shostakovich 9th Symphony performance with the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker, distributed by Deutsche Grammophon, Bernstein explains how Shostakovich “thumbed his nose” at the tradition of Ninth symphonies of the great composers. "The mystique of the number nine exerted itself in an odd way, so typical of

Richard Wagner's romantic opera "Lohengrin" premiered on August 28, 1850, at the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner. Liszt chose the date in honor of Weimar's most famous citizen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was born on 28 August 1749. Enjoy this video of Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic in the Act III Prelude of Wagner's Lohengrin, from the Young People's Concert "Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals" (1

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