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Symphony No. 2 (Bernstein)
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Leonard Bernstein's 2nd Symphony known as The age of anxiety was composed from 1948 to 1949 in the US and Israel. It is a tonal poem after W.H. Auden's homonymous poem. It was dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky. The symphony was revised in 1965.
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The symphony is for orchestra and piano.
The symphony is two parts, One and Two, each of them comprising 3 sections A,B, and C.
- a) The Prologue: Lento moderato
- b) The Seven Ages: Variations 1 - 7
- Variation 1 L'istesso tempo
- Variation 2 Poco più mosso
- Variation 3 Largamente, ma mosso
- Variation 4 Più mosso
- Variation 5 Agitato
- Variation 6 Poco meno mosso
- Variation 7 L'istesso tempo
- c)The Seven Stages: Variations 8 - 14
- Variation 8 Molto moderato, ma movendo
- Variation 9 Più mosso (Tempo di Valse)
- Variation 10 Più mosso
- Variation 11 L'istesso tempo
- Variation 12 Poco più vivace
- Variation 13 L'istesso tempo
- Variation 14 Poco più vivace
- a) The Dirge: Largo
- b) The Masque: Extremely Fast
- c) The Epilogue: Adagio; Andante; Con moto
The work was premiered on April 8, 1949 with Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the composer at the piano.
The symphony was choreographed in 1950 by Jerome Robbins.
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