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Work: Phantasmata

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ComposerRouse, Christopher (b. 1949)
PeriodContemporary
Work typeOrchestral
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Anxious dreams from Bloch, Brahms, Rouse and the New York Philharmonic

Dreams and anxieties, religious and otherwise, were the dominant themes at Thursday night’s New York Philharmonic performance. The concert program worked backwards in time, starting with Phantasmata by composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse (completed in 1985), followed by Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo (1916), and finishing with Brahms’ Symphony no. 1 (published in 1877).
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