{"id":8162,"date":"2022-03-04T12:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/?post_type=dso_prod_season&#038;p=8162"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:38:55","slug":"lise-de-la-salle-plays-schumann","status":"publish","type":"dso_prod_season","link":"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/es\/productions\/lise-de-la-salle-plays-schumann\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Luisi y la pianista Lise de la Salle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"richtext m-spacer\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-10\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n<p><strong>FABIO LUISI<\/strong> conducts<br><strong>LISE DE LA SALLE<\/strong> piano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JULIA PERRY <\/strong>Study for Orchestra<br><strong>CLARA SCHUMANN<\/strong> Piano Concerto<br><strong>LOUISE FARRENC<\/strong> Symphony No. 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading into our Women in Classical Music Symposium, we invite you to explore the work of three female composers who dared to make a difference in the world of classical music. The lesser-known, but no less deserving, Julia Perry and the great Clara Schumann and Louise Farrenc were highly educated and internationally trained musicians. These talented women helped pave the way for female artists, like our soloist Lise de la Salle, whose playing inspired the Washington Post to write, \u201cFor much of the concert, the audience had to remember to breathe\u2026 the exhilaration didn\u2019t let up for a second until her hands came off the keyboard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An African-American composer and conductor born in Kentucky, Julia Perry studied at Westminster Choir College and then Juilliard. Many of her early works are vocal, often incorporating influences from black spirituals. But she also studied with Luigi Dallapiccola at Tanglewood and in Italy, and she also worked with Nadia Boulanger, winning the Boulanger Grand Prix for her Viola Sonata. Her catalog includes a dozen symphonies and a pair of piano concertos; her theater works include three operas and a ballet, several on her own librettos or scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of this is sadly neglected, but her Short Piece for Orchestra (also known as Study for Orchestra, 1952) was recorded in a live performance by the New York Phil- harmonic under William Steinberg in 1965. It is an initially raucous, highly energized essay, brilliantly scored. There are edgy lyrical contrasts, however, and the work closes in a haunted Lento, before a whip- lash ending returns the aggressive opening thunder. \u2014 John Henken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clara Schumann embarked on her Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7, not only at a pivotal moment in her own musical development, having previously focused on \u2018small forms\u2019 (Kallberg, 1992), but also in the history of the genre. To write a piano concerto in the 1830s was to engage with an established tradition that was in a state of change. Significant in this regard were the continued advancements in the modern piano, the expansion of form, evolving relationships between the soloist and the orchestra, and shifting attitudes towards virtuosity, all of which gave rise to new ways of navigating the nineteenth-century piano concerto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise Farrenc (1804\u20131875) studied under Anton Reicha and worked in Paris for decades as a respected composer, pianist and music scholar. In 1842 she was the first woman to be appointed to the position of professor for piano at the Conservatoire National, a position she held for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/TI.Classical.black_-1024x166.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5688\" width=\"256\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/TI.Classical.black_-1024x166.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/TI.Classical.black_-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/TI.Classical.black_-768x124.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/TI.Classical.black_-16x3.png 16w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/TI.Classical.black_.png 1528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"row\">\n        <div class=\"col-10\">\n            <div class=\"share d-flex align-items-center\">\n                <p class=\"mb-0 serif__light-16\">SHARE<\/p><div data-network=\"facebook\" class=\"st-custom-button facebook\" data-title=&quot;Fabio Luisi &#038; Pianist, Lise de la Salle&quot;  data-description=&quot;Leading into our Women in Classical Music Symposium, we invite you to explore the work of three female composers who dared to make a difference in the world of classical music. 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The lesser-known, but no less deserving, Julia Perry and the great Clara Schumann and Louise Farrenc were highly educated and internationally trained musicians. \r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/es\/productions\/lise-de-la-salle-plays-schumann\/&quot; >Facebook<span class=\"count\"><\/span><\/div>            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"edp-musician-grid m-spacer grad-to-right\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1><\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<h2><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-6\">\n\t<div class=\"edp__musician-card\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Fabio-Luisi-1600-x-1600-1-262x262.jpg\" class=\"attachment-262x262 size-262x262 wp-post-image\" alt=\"FABIO LUISI MUSIC DIRECTOR LOUISE W. &amp; EDMUND J. 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Kahn Music Directorship<\/p>\n\n                            <a class=\"a-hover\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/es\/people\/fabio-luisi\/\">Read More<\/a>\n            \t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"col-lg-6\">\n\t<div class=\"edp__musician-card\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-262x262.png\" class=\"attachment-262x262 size-262x262 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-262x262.png 262w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-12x12.png 12w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle-445x445.png 445w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lise-de-la-Salle.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>\t\t<div class=\"content__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h4>Lise de la Salle<\/h4>\n\n\t\t\t<p>Piano<\/p>\n\n                            <a class=\"a-hover\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/es\/people\/lise-de-la-salle\/\">Read More<\/a>\n            \t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"dso__accordion m-spacer\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n                <div class=\"accordion__intro-wrapper\">\n                    <h1>Program Notes<\/h1>\n                    <p>by Ren\u00e9 Spencer Saller<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-10 offset-md-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion\" id=\"accordion-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card\">\n\t<button id=\"headinga5e0b3d207999a122e984d351a25078e\" class=\"dso__accordion-toggle\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapsea5e0b3d207999a122e984d351a25078e\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapsea5e0b3d207999a122e984d351a25078e\">\n\t\tJulia Perry (1924\u20131979): Study for Orchestra\t\t<span class=\"plus-sign\">\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewbox=\"0 0 25 25\">\n                <g transform=\"translate(211.054 -145.186) rotate(135)\"><rect width=\"25\" height=\"3\" transform=\"translate(242.001 36.678) rotate(-45)\"\/><rect width=\"25\" height=\"3\" transform=\"translate(244.12 19) rotate(45)\"\/><\/g>\n            <\/svg>\n        <\/span>\n\t<\/button>\n\n\t<div id=\"collapsea5e0b3d207999a122e984d351a25078e\" class=\"collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"headinga5e0b3d207999a122e984d351a25078e\" data-parent=\"#accordion-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p>Even after suffering a debilitating stroke in 1971, Julia Perry persisted in composing,<br \/>\nbuilding up a substantial body of work, in numerous genres. Her catalogue contains<br \/>\nmore than a dozen symphonies and at least three operas, all of high quality. But if<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t recognize her name, please know that this has nothing to do with her<br \/>\ntalent, which was formidable, and everything to do with her status, or lack thereof,<br \/>\nas a Black woman in the mid-20th-century United States. Until recently, Perry, like<br \/>\nthe two other female composers presented in this concert, has been woefully<br \/>\nneglected on concert programs. During her own lifetime, racism and sexism<br \/>\nchallenged but never deterred her; if anything, she worked harder to chart her own<br \/>\npath. Her revelatory compositions deserve\u2014and reward\u2014our attention.<\/p>\n<p>Perry, the fourth of five sisters, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to a schoolteacher<br \/>\nmother and a physician father, who once played piano well enough to accompany<br \/>\nthe celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes in concert. The family moved to Akron,<br \/>\nOhio, when Perry was 10. She earned a scholarship to Westminster Choir College, in<br \/>\nPrinceton, New Jersey, where she studied voice, piano, and composition, and then<br \/>\nJuilliard, which led to her first Guggenheim Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>In 1948 Perry earned her master&#8217;s degree and presented her secular cantata<br \/>\n<em>Chicago<\/em>, a setting of a 1914 Carl Sandburg poem. She went on to study with the<br \/>\ninfluential teacher Luigi Dallapiccolla, at Tanglewood and, in Fontainebleau, outside<br \/>\nof Paris, with the legendary Mlle. Nadia Boulanger, who taught everyone from Aaron<br \/>\nCopland to Astor Piazzolla.<\/p>\n<p>In 1952 Perry won the Boulanger Grand Prix for her Viola Sonata. She also won a<br \/>\nsecond Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed her to study with Dallapiccolla again<br \/>\nin Italy. The premiere of her <em>Study for Orchestra<\/em> was a high point of her second stint<br \/>\nin Italy. With the vocal composition <em>Stabat mater<\/em>, <em>Study for Orchestra<\/em> would become<br \/>\none of her most-performed works and one of the few pieces from her catalogue to<br \/>\nbe recorded during her lifetime. During the summers of 1956 and &#8217;57, she studied<br \/>\nconducting in Siena and directed a series of concerts in Europe for the Information<br \/>\nService of the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Perry wrote her final five symphonies while contending with serious health<br \/>\nconditions and a long hospitalization. These include her Symphony No. 11 (&#8220;Space<br \/>\nSymphony&#8221;), Symphony No. 12 (&#8220;Simple Symphony&#8221;), and the <em>Marching Band<\/em><br \/>\nSymphony. She also wrote an opera about the Salem witch trials, <em>Symplegades<\/em>. Her<br \/>\nlast known composition was <em>Bicentennial Reflections<\/em>, from 1977, a concise<br \/>\nmeditation on the theme of American freedom for tenor, electric bass, and chamber<br \/>\nensemble. On April 24, 1979, in Akron, Ohio, Perry experienced catastrophic heart<br \/>\nfailure and died at age 55.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Closer Listen<\/strong><br \/>\nPerry wrote <em>Study for Orchestra<\/em> in 1952, during her second Italian sabbatical.<br \/>\nSometimes called by its earlier name, <em>Short Piece for Orchestra<\/em>, the seven-or-so-<br \/>\nminute orchestral work is distinctively American, a bewitching concoction of the<br \/>\nEuropean neoclassical tradition that Perry soaked up in the conservatories and the<br \/>\nrichly syncopated African American musical vernacular, the bonded-by-blood<br \/>\nspirituals, gospel hymns, and jazz ballads that anchored her like family. In 1964, a<br \/>\ndozen years after its premiere, the New York Philharmonic performed and recorded<br \/>\nPerry&#8217;s <em>Study for Orchestra<\/em> during a European tour. Vividly scored, the piece<br \/>\ncontrasts a hypnotic Lento passage with aggressive outer sections.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"card\">\n\t<button id=\"heading69376f39ed39f28fa2a4f660eeb34622\" class=\"dso__accordion-toggle\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse69376f39ed39f28fa2a4f660eeb34622\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse69376f39ed39f28fa2a4f660eeb34622\">\n\t\tClara Schumann (n\u00e9e Wieck) (1819\u20131896): Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7\t\t<span class=\"plus-sign\">\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewbox=\"0 0 25 25\">\n                <g transform=\"translate(211.054 -145.186) rotate(135)\"><rect width=\"25\" height=\"3\" transform=\"translate(242.001 36.678) rotate(-45)\"\/><rect width=\"25\" height=\"3\" transform=\"translate(244.12 19) rotate(45)\"\/><\/g>\n            <\/svg>\n        <\/span>\n\t<\/button>\n\n\t<div id=\"collapse69376f39ed39f28fa2a4f660eeb34622\" class=\"collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"heading69376f39ed39f28fa2a4f660eeb34622\" data-parent=\"#accordion-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p>On January 13, 1833, the 13-year-old German piano prodigy Clara Wieck wrote in<br \/>\nher diary that she had begun to compose her first piano concerto. All she had<br \/>\ncomposed so far was a single movement, which she called a &#8220;concert rondo.&#8221; It<br \/>\nwould eventually serve as the final movement of her Piano Concerto in A Minor.<br \/>\n&#8220;[Robert] Schumann will orchestrate it now so that I can play it at my concert,&#8221; she<br \/>\nnoted, referring to her father&#8217;s piano pupil and boarder\u2014and her own future<br \/>\nhusband. Clara had been an international sensation before hitting puberty, and<br \/>\nRobert, despite being nine years older, was still struggling to make a name for<br \/>\nhimself as a composer and critic.<\/p>\n<p>More than anyone, even more than he believed in himself, Clara believed in Robert&#8217;s<br \/>\ngenius. Even though he wouldn&#8217;t kiss her until her 16th birthday party, and he was<br \/>\nsporadically involved with other women, he had fallen for her, and the feeling was<br \/>\nmutual. (As she wrote in a letter to him, &#8220;When you gave me that kiss, I thought I<br \/>\nwould faint.&#8221;) Unfortunately, her controlling (and, at least by contemporary<br \/>\nstandards, abusive) father opposed the match and even filed a lawsuit to prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>After a long and rocky courtship, conducted mostly by secret correspondence, Clara<br \/>\nand Robert eventually prevailed in court. They married on September 12, 1840, the<br \/>\nday before she turned 21: she called it &#8220;the most beautiful and the most important&#8221;<br \/>\nday of her life. Over the next 16 years, until Robert&#8217;s premature death in 1856, she<br \/>\nbarely had time to practice on the family&#8217;s only piano, much less compose. She gave<br \/>\nbirth to eight children, seven of whom survived infancy; supported her increasingly<br \/>\ndelusional husband creatively, emotionally, and financially; supervised the servants<br \/>\nand balanced the household budget; and, despite Robert&#8217;s pathetic objections,<br \/>\nmaintained a busy performance schedule.<\/p>\n<p>After Robert died in a sanitarium, in 1856, Clara composed very little. As a touring<br \/>\nconcert pianist, she devoted much of her life to promoting her late husband&#8217;s music<br \/>\nand ensuring his place in the canon. By the mid-19th century, concert culture no<br \/>\nlonger demanded that virtuoso performers also write or improvise their own<br \/>\nmaterial, as had been the case during her adolescence, when she wrote her Piano<br \/>\nConcerto in A Minor primarily for her own performance. Without the weight of<br \/>\nexpectation, she felt less motivated to compose. Instead, she resolved to serve as<br \/>\nRobert&#8217;s loyal champion and a (probably) platonic muse to their younger friend and<br \/>\nfrequent houseguest, Johannes Brahms.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps relevantly, before her father obtained sole custody of her after divorcing<br \/>\nher pianist mother, before he transformed the child into a world-famous prodigy,<br \/>\nshe reportedly spent the first four years of her life deaf and mute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The A Minor Concerto<\/strong><br \/>\nAt age 15, Schumann, then Wieck, posed for a portrait with one hand resting on the<br \/>\nkeyboard, the sheet music for her own Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7, within<br \/>\nreach: a sweet-faced, sad-eyed girl whose public image was carefully constructed by<br \/>\nher Svengali father.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote her sole Piano Concerto between the ages of 13 and 15; she debuted it<br \/>\npublicly on November 11, 1835, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, under the baton of her<br \/>\nfriend and admirer Felix Mendelssohn. This premiere took place a couple of months<br \/>\nor so after her fateful 16th birthday party. In those days, piano prodigies were<br \/>\nexpected to demonstrate mastery of harmony and counterpoint by performing their<br \/>\nown compositions or improvisations at recitals. As Anna Beer explains in her<br \/>\nessential <em>Sounds and Sweet Airs<\/em>: <em>The Forgotten Women of Classical Music<\/em>: &#8220;Because<br \/>\nClara Wieck was a child prodigy on the piano, she became a child-prodigy <em>composer<\/em><br \/>\nfor the piano.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert&#8217;s growing attention fortified her ego while weakening her father&#8217;s hold.<br \/>\nWhen she was only 12, he praised her as a composer, treating her as his creative<br \/>\nequal: &#8220;Have you been composing a lot?&#8221; he asked in his first surviving letter to her,<br \/>\ndated January 11, 1832: &#8220;And if so, what? Sometimes I hear music in my dreams\u2014<br \/>\nwhat a composer you are!&#8221; She began dedicating compositions to him, including her<br \/>\nsublime <em>Romance vari\u00e9e<\/em> for piano, Op. 3 (1831\u201333).<\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, Robert commissioned and published a somewhat tepid-to-critical<br \/>\nreview of her Piano Concerto for the journal he edited at the time. His future fianc\u00e9e<br \/>\nwas incensed not only because he didn&#8217;t review it himself but also because he must<br \/>\nhave approved this unsympathetic review of a concerto that he had helped<br \/>\norchestrate.<\/p>\n<p>Defending herself, she reminded him that her audiences, which spanned the<br \/>\ncontinent, insisted on hearing immediate encores of her original material: &#8220;Of the<br \/>\nmany pieces I played, my concerto was received the best&#8230;. Do you think I am so<br \/>\nunaware that I don&#8217;t know the faults of the concerto?&#8221; [But] there is no better<br \/>\nfeeling than having satisfied an entire audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A sharp but well-deserved dig: as they both were all too aware, Robert wasn&#8217;t nearly<br \/>\nas adept as his teenage fianc\u00e9e when it came to satisfying audiences. Proving the<br \/>\npoint, she took the concerto on tour for the next few years, presenting it some seven<br \/>\ntimes across the continent, including at one recital in Vienna, when audiences<br \/>\ndemanded two encores of the finale.<\/p>\n<p>Ignorant critics made backhanded compliments and sexist assumptions. As one<br \/>\nanonymous reviewer quoted by Beer opined: &#8220;If the name of the female composer<br \/>\nwere not on the title one would never think it were written by a woman.&#8221; Another<br \/>\ncritic attributed the composer&#8217;s bold harmonic choices to a woman&#8217;s &#8220;moody&#8221;<br \/>\nnature, adding that innovation often promotes deviance in &#8220;the daughters of Eve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Closer Listen<\/strong><br \/>\nDespite the composer&#8217;s youth, the Piano Concerto in A Minor is both accomplished<br \/>\nand daring. Her through-composed melodies, unusual key changes, and risky<br \/>\nmodulations exude a Chopinesque perfume, never mind that Wieck began writing it<br \/>\nbefore Chopin&#8217;s piano concertos were widely known. On the other hand, it&#8217;s likely<br \/>\nthat Clara, a precocious connoisseur who made her professional debut at the Leipzig<br \/>\nGewandhaus at age 11, had heard Chopin&#8217;s music performed during her extensive<br \/>\nEuropean concert tours.<\/p>\n<p>There are no true pauses between movements: in what would become a Romantic<br \/>\nconvention, if that&#8217;s not a contradiction in terms, each movement flows into the<br \/>\nnext, linked by carefully considered segues.<\/p>\n<p>Cast in A minor, the opening Allegro maestoso announces itself with a grand tutti<br \/>\nbefore interjecting a contrasting idea, a plangent wind refrain. The piano tosses out<br \/>\nsome resolute scales before the orchestra returns. After a dramatic cascade of<br \/>\ndownward arpeggios, the soloist plunges upward and launches into the first solo<br \/>\ncadenza, a delicately voluptuous, polonaise-like tune that soon sweet-talks the<br \/>\nstrings into humming along. Overall, the movement is punctuated by dynamic shifts<br \/>\nand climactic crescendos and decrescendos.<\/p>\n<p>Preceded by another segue, also labeled Romanze, the central Romanze, in the<br \/>\ndistant key of A-flat major, eases into a rapturous stretto piano interlude, a dreamy,<br \/>\ndruggy waltz. Call it a rhapsody in deep violet, call it what you will, but it blossoms<br \/>\ninto a twilit colloquy with the cello, one of the most indelible duets in the repertoire.<br \/>\nAnd even if she is biting Chopin&#8217;s steez (debatable), who cares? Who can fuss about<br \/>\ninfluence while marinating in bliss? Does it matter that Chopin himself admired<br \/>\nClara&#8217;s music?<\/p>\n<p>For the Allegro non troppo finale, which is almost as long as the first two<br \/>\nmovements combined, Schumann returns to the home key of A minor, decorating<br \/>\nthe majestic polonaise idea with ornately virtuosic filigree. At once fierce and<br \/>\ntender, the finale represents the soloist&#8217;s\u2014originally the composer&#8217;s\u2014spotlight<br \/>\nmoment. It is the only one of the three movements that was originally orchestrated<br \/>\nby Robert, although Clara likely revised it in the years afterwards, after numerous<br \/>\nlive performances. The orchestra offers support and occasional friction, alternating<br \/>\nfull-throated tutti sections with subtle, chamber-like accompaniment that sets off<br \/>\nthe sparkling piano pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"card\">\n\t<button id=\"heading007a8ea42aee0d4a0a1ab1790ad8dab1\" class=\"dso__accordion-toggle\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse007a8ea42aee0d4a0a1ab1790ad8dab1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse007a8ea42aee0d4a0a1ab1790ad8dab1\">\n\t\tLouise Farrenc (1804\u20131875): Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 36\t\t<span class=\"plus-sign\">\n            <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewbox=\"0 0 25 25\">\n                <g transform=\"translate(211.054 -145.186) rotate(135)\"><rect width=\"25\" height=\"3\" transform=\"translate(242.001 36.678) rotate(-45)\"\/><rect width=\"25\" height=\"3\" transform=\"translate(244.12 19) rotate(45)\"\/><\/g>\n            <\/svg>\n        <\/span>\n\t<\/button>\n\n\t<div id=\"collapse007a8ea42aee0d4a0a1ab1790ad8dab1\" class=\"collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"heading007a8ea42aee0d4a0a1ab1790ad8dab1\" data-parent=\"#accordion-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t<p>Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, in Paris, Louise Farrenc was the daughter and sister of<br \/>\nprominent sculptors. She grew up in a creative, mildly bohemian environment and<br \/>\nthrived, starting piano lessons as a young girl, under Cecile Soria, a pupil of Muzio<br \/>\nClementi. Soon she was learning from such luminaries as Ignaz Moscheles and<br \/>\nJohann Nepomuk Hummel. She became a touring piano virtuosa a good decade<br \/>\nbefore Clara Schumann debuted at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In 1819, at age 15, she<br \/>\nstudied composition privately with Anton Reicha, an associate of Beethoven&#8217;s and<br \/>\nan esteemed faculty member at the Paris Conservatoire. Whether the young woman<br \/>\never took classes with Reicha at the Conservatoire remains unknown, but it seems<br \/>\nunlikely, since the composition coursework was limited to men at the time. Female<br \/>\nstudents could not enroll, at least officially, in any composition class at the<br \/>\nConservatoire until 1870.<\/p>\n<p>In 1821 Dumont married Aristide Farrenc, a flutist and music publisher 10 years her<br \/>\nsenior. It proved a good match for her, giving her the freedom to pursue the kind of<br \/>\nmusic career that was usually off limits to women of her social class. The couple also<br \/>\nco-founded a leading publishing house, Editions Farrenc. In 1826 the Farrencs<br \/>\nwelcomed a daughter, Victorine, who, like her mother, enjoyed a successful career<br \/>\nas a concert pianist.<\/p>\n<p>In 1842 Farrenc was named a tenured professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire,<br \/>\na prestigious position that she would hold for the next 30 years. Underpaid for the<br \/>\nfirst decade of her employment, she demanded and received a salary equal to that of<br \/>\nher male colleagues after her 1849 nonet for strings and winds wowed critics and<br \/>\naudiences alike. Twice, in 1861 and 1869, she won the Prix Chartier of the Acad\u00e9mie<br \/>\ndes Beaux-Arts. She was praised by the likes of Hector Berlioz and Robert<br \/>\nSchumann.<\/p>\n<p>Along with chamber music and works for solo piano, Farrenc wrote three<br \/>\nsymphonies. She completed her Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 36, in 1847, and<br \/>\ndebuted it two years later, at the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Concerts du Conservatoire, on the same<br \/>\nprogram as Beethoven&#8217;s Fifth Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>Farrenc stopped composing in 1859, after her 33-year-old daughter, Victorine,<br \/>\nsuccumbed to a long illness. Despite her grief, she stayed busy, continuing to teach<br \/>\nat the Conservatoire until 1873 while also researching French Baroque keyboard<br \/>\nmusic for the 23-volume scholarly series that she was compiling and editing with<br \/>\nAristide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Closer Listen<\/strong><br \/>\nThe first movement, a dramatic, richly textured Allegro, opens with a solitary oboe,<br \/>\nwhich spins out a theme that the strings caress and adapt before conjuring up a<br \/>\nferocious coda. In the slow movement, a solo clarinet croons over velvety strings,<br \/>\nlow brass, and muted timpani. The effervescent scherzo amps up the contrast, and a<br \/>\nsatisfying woodwind-centered trio ensues before the final emphatic chords of the<br \/>\nfinale, a contrapuntal delight.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"featured-concerts grad-to-left m-spacer\">\n        <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n            <div class=\"row\">\n                <div class=\"col-md-7 col-7 offset-md-1\">\n                    <h1 class=\"serif__elight-58-italic\">You may also be interested in<\/h1>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"col-md-4 col-5\">\n                    <div class=\"controls__wrapper\">\n                        <div class=\"slideshow__controls d-none d-lg-block\">\n                            <button class=\"controls__prev\"  data-button-id=\"979f0851296d87f37809d2d96e4ad8f3\">\n                                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 24 24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\">\n                                    <g><rect fill=\"none\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"\/><path d=\"M12,4c4.41,0,8,3.59,8,8s-3.59,8-8,8s-8-3.59-8-8S7.59,4,12,4 M12,2C6.48,2,2,6.48,2,12c0,5.52,4.48,10,10,10 c5.52,0,10-4.48,10-10C22,6.48,17.52,2,12,2L12,2z M13,12l0-4h-2l0,4H8l4,4l4-4H13z\"\/><\/g>\n                                <\/svg>\n                            <\/button>\n                            <button class=\"controls__next\" data-button-id=\"979f0851296d87f37809d2d96e4ad8f3\">\n                                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 24 24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\">\n                                    <g><rect fill=\"none\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"\/><path d=\"M12,4c4.41,0,8,3.59,8,8s-3.59,8-8,8s-8-3.59-8-8S7.59,4,12,4 M12,2C6.48,2,2,6.48,2,12c0,5.52,4.48,10,10,10 c5.52,0,10-4.48,10-10C22,6.48,17.52,2,12,2L12,2z M13,12l0-4h-2l0,4H8l4,4l4-4H13z\"\/><\/g>\n                                <\/svg>\n                            <\/button>\n                        <\/div>\n\n\t                                        <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"row\">\n                <div class=\"col-md-11 offset-md-1\">\n                    <div class=\"slideshow\">\n                        <div class=\"dso__slides\" data-button-id=\"979f0851296d87f37809d2d96e4ad8f3\">\n                            <div class=\"concert__card\" style=\"margin-right: 15px\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/es\/productions\/sibelius-symphony-no-2\/\">\n        <div class=\"img__wrapper\">\n\t        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-388x218.jpg\" class=\"attachment-388x218 size-388x218 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sibelius Symphony No 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-388x218.jpg 388w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-540x303.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-666x375.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9-735x413.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.dallassymphony.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Web-Graphic-CLA9.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"content__wrapper\">\n            <h4 class=\"serif__light-22\">\n                Sibelius Symphony No. 2            <\/h4>\n            <p class=\"serif__light-16-italic\">enero 12 &#8211; 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