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Install Windows 7 with a download. I am considering buying a student discount of Windows 7 6. Digital River. However, I need to know if there's a way I can perform an installation on my laptop by either using a DVD with this file or a flash drive with this file (flash drive preferable. Program note by Luke Howard, Ph.D. Trittico Botticelliano OTTORINO RESPIGHI Born July 9, 1879, Bologna Died April 18, 1936, Rome Many composers have written music inspired by paintings; the opportunity to take a static arrangement of color, shape and space, and transform that frozen moment into dynamic music-drama has been difficult to resist.

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge aka Liz Coolidge (30 October 1864 – 4 November 1953), born Elizabeth Penn Sprague, was an American pianist and patron of music, especially of chamber music.

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Biography[edit]

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's father was a wealthy wholesale dealer in Chicago. She was musically talented and studied piano as well as composition. She married the physician Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge who died from syphilis contracted from a patient during surgery, leaving her with their only child Albert. Soon after, her parents died as well. Coolidge's cousin was Lucy Sprague Mitchell, the founder of Bank Street College of Education. Coolidge provided Mitchell with funds for the founding of the school in 1916.

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She inherited a considerable amount of money from her parents and decided to spend it on promotion of chamber music, a mission she continued to carry out until her death at the age of 89 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Due to her husband's profession, she also gave financial support to medical institutions.

Coolidge's financial resources were not unlimited but through force of personality and conviction she managed to raise the status of chamber music in the United States, where the major interest of composers had previously been in orchestral music, from curiosity to a seminal field of composition. Her devotion to music and generosity to musicians were spurred by her own experience as a performing musician: she appeared as a pianist up to her 80s, accompanying world-renowned instrumentalists.

Coolidge established the Berkshire String Quartet in 1916 and started the Berkshire Music Festival at South Mountain, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, two years later. Out of this grew the Berkshire Symphonic Festival at Tanglewood, which she also supported. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1951.^[1]

Elizabeth's only son, Albert, graduated from the Harvard University and was a chemical physicist, political activist, and civil libertarian.^[2]

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medals[edit]

In 1932, Coolidge established the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for 'eminent services to chamber music.' The medals were initially awarded by the Library of Congress. But, in 1949 — after objections by U.S. Congressmen over the appropriateness of a government body awarding prizes in fine arts and literature to individuals who might harbor dissident views towards the U.S. (re: Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize) — the Library of Congress discontinued awarding medals of any kind, including (i) the Bollingen Prize, the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for 'eminent services to chamber music, and (iii) three prizes endowed by Lessing Rosenwald in connection with an annual national exhibition of prints.^[3]

Recipients[edit]

Earlier Coolidge Prizes and Commissions

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• 1918 – Tadeusz Iarecki^[4]
• 1919 – Ernest Bloch: Chamber Music Prize for the Berkshire Festival
• 1920 – Gian Francesco Malipiero
• 1921 – Harry Waldo Warner (1874–1945)
• 1922 – Leo Weiner: Chamber Music Prize for the Berkshire Festival
• 1923 – Commissions for the Berkshire Festival:

Eugene Goosens

Rebecca Clarke

• 1936 – Jerzy Fitelberg: String Quartet no. 4

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medals for Eminent Services to Chamber Music

• Louis Gruenberg, Four Diversions, string quartet, composed in 1930^[5]
• Frank Bridge (1938)
• Abbey Simon^[6]
• Benjamin Britten (1941)
• Alexander Tansman (1941)
• Randall Thompson (1941)
• Roy Harris (1942), Sonata for Violin and Piano
• Quincy Porter (1943)
• Alexander Schneider (1945)^[7]
• Erich Itor Kahn (1948)

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for Conductors

• James Allen Dixon (1928–2007) (1955)

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for Best Performance of Contemporary Music

• The Zagreb Soloists

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for the Best String Quartet in Europe

• The Netherlands String Quartet (1965)

Other commissions[edit]

In 1945 she commissioned the Paganini Quartet, led by Henri Temianka. The Sprague Memorial Hall at Yale University was also financed by Coolidge.

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation[edit]

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Emachines e627 touchpad not working. Her most innovative and costly endeavor, however, was her partnership with the Library of Congress, resulting in the construction of the 500-seat Coolidge Auditorium, specifically intended for chamber music, in 1924. This was accompanied by the establishment of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation to organize concerts in that auditorium and to commission new chamber music from both European and American composers, as it continues to do today.

Support of composers and musical works[edit]

Coolidge had a reputation for promoting 'difficult' modern music (though she declined to support one of the most modern of all composers, Charles Ives). But she never aimed at such a reputation and explained her preferences in music as follows: 'My plea for modern music is not that we should like it, nor necessarily that we should even understand it, but that we should exhibit it as a significant human document.' Though American herself, she had no national preferences, and in fact most of her commissions went to European composers. She didn't have any urge to specifically promote women composers, either.

She sponsored the 1927 tour of the United States of composer Ottorino Respighi and his wife, the soprano Elsa. The conclusion of the tour was a program held at the Library of Congress chamber music hall that she had funded, and at that occasion Respighi promised to dedicate his next musical composition to Mrs. Coolidge. That composition turned out to be the Trittico Botticelliano, inspired by three Botticelli paintings on display at the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy. The first performance of the work was at a concert in Vienna at the end of that same year, with the Respighis in attendance.

The most lasting memorial to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's patronage of music are the compositions which she commissioned from many leading composers of the early 20th century. Among the best-known of those compositions are the following:

• Samuel Barber: Hermit Songs, Op. 29
• Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 5
• Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No. 1
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 58
• Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
• Arthur Honegger: Concerto da camera
• Gian Francesco Malipiero: First Piano Concerto (1937)
• Gabriel Pierné : Sonata da Camera pour flûte, violoncelle et piano
• Francis Poulenc: Flute Sonata
• Sergei Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 1
• Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses
• Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4
• Igor Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
• Anton Webern: String Quartet
• Sir Arthur Bliss: Oboe Quintet
• Ottorino Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano

Other composers supported by Coolidge include Ernest Bloch, Frank Bridge, Alfredo Casella, George Enescu, Howard Hanson, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Paul Hindemith, Bohuslav Martinů, Darius Milhaud, Rebecca Helferich Clarke, Cyril Rootham and Albert Roussel.

References[edit]

1. ^'Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter C'(PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
2. ^'Coolidge, Albert Sprague in American National Biography Online'. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
3. ^William McGuire, Poetry's Catbird Seat (the consultantship in poetry in the English language at the Library of Congress, 1937–1987), Library of Congress, Washington, 1988
4. ^New York Public Library, Tadeusz Iarecki Quartet for strings, op. 21
5. ^Don Michael Randel, The Harvard biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard University Press (1996)
6. ^David M. Cummings, International who's who in music and musicians' directory, Vol. I (2000/2001),Psychology Press (2000)
7. ^Kozinn, Allan (February 4, 1993). 'Alexander Schneider, Violon Virtuoso, Dies at 84'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-03-11.

External links[edit]

• The Coolidge Legacy by Prof. Cyrilla Barr

Further reading[edit]

• Barr, Cyrilla. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music. New York : London: Schirmer Books ; Prentice Hall International, 1998.
• Locke, Ralph P., and Cyrilla Barr, editors, Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

The Bassoon repertoire consists of pieces of music composed for bassoon as a principal instrument that may be performed with or without other instruments.

Baroque[edit]

• Johann Friedrich Fasch: Several bassoon concerti; the best known is in C major
• Christoph Graupner: Four bassoon concerti
• Johann Wilhelm Hertel: Bassoon Concerto in A minor
• Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata in F minor
• Antonio Vivaldi: 39 concerti for bassoon, 37 of which exist in their entirety today
• Jan Dismas Zelenka: Six trio sonatas for two oboes (or oboe/violin), bassoon and basso continuo

Classical[edit]

• Johann Christian Bach:
  • Bassoon Concerto in B♭
  • Bassoon Concerto in E♭ major
• Franz Danzi:
  • Bassoon Concerto in G minor,
  • Bassoon Concerto in C
  • 2 Bassoon Concerto in F major
  • 3 Quartets for Bassoon and Strings, Op. 40
• François Devienne:
  • 12 Sonatas (six with opus numbers)
  • 3 Quartets
  • Bassoon Concerto
  • 6 Duos Concertants
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Grand Concerto for Bassoon (in F)
• Leopold Kozeluch:
  • Bassoon Concerto in B♭ major (P V:B1)
  • Bassoon Concerto in C major (P V:C1)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B♭, K. 191, the only surviving of the original three bassoon concertos he wrote
• Antonio Rosetti:
  • Bassoon Concertos in F major (Murray C75)
  • Bassoon Concertos in B♭ major (Murray C69, C73, C74)
  • Bassoon Concerto in E♭ major (Murray C68)^[1]
• Carl Stamitz: Bassoon Concerto in F major
• Johann Baptist Wanhal:
  • Bassoon Concerto in C major
  • Concerto in F major for two bassoons and orchestra

Romantic[edit]

• Franz Berwald: Konzertstück
• Ferdinand David: Concertino for bassoon and orchestra, op. 12
• Edward Elgar: Romance for bassoon and orchestra, op. 62
• Johann Nepomuk Fuchs: Bassoon Concerto in B♭ major
• Julius Fučík: Der alte Brummbär ('The Old Grumbler') for bassoon and orchestra, op. 210
• Reinhold Glière: Humoresque and Impromptu for Bassoon and Piano, op. 35, nos. 8 and 9
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonata for bassoon and piano in G major, op. 168
• Carl Maria von Weber:
  • Andante e rondo ungarese in C minor, op. 35b

Twentieth century[edit]

• Miguel del Aguila:
  • Hexen for bassoon and string orchestra
  • Hexen for bassoon and piano
• Luciano Berio: Sequenza XII for solo bassoon (1995)
• Pierre Boulez: Dialogue de l'ombre double for bassoon and electronics (originally for clarinet, transcribed for bassoon by the composer – 1995)
• Howard J. Buss: A Day in the City for solo bassoon (1986)
  • Time Capsule for oboe and bassoon (1996)
  • Desert Odyssey for clarinet, bassoon and piano (1997)
• Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto no.8 for bassoon and orchestra
• Edison Denisov
  • Cinq Etudes for bassoon (1983)
  • Sonata for solo bassoon (1982)
• Franco Donatoni: Concerto for bassoon (1952)
• Henri Dutilleux:
  • Sarabande et Cortège for bassoon and piano (1942)
  • Regards sur l'Infini and Deux sonnets de Jean Cassou for bassoon and piano (originally for voice and piano, transcribed by Pascal Gallois with the composer's approval) (1942/2011 and 1954/2011)
• Alvin Etler: Sonata for bassoon and piano (1951)
• Jean Françaix:
  • Quadruple Concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and orchestra (1935)
  • Divertissement for bassoon and string quintet (or orchestra) (1942)
  • Le coq et le renard (The Rooster and the Fox) for 4 bassoons (1963)
  • Sept impromptus for flute and bassoon (1977)
  • Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano (1994)
  • Two pieces for bassoon and piano (1996)
• Glenn Gould: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (1950)
• Sofia Gubaidulina:
  • Concerto for bassoon and low strings (1975)
  • Duo sonata for two bassoons (1977)
• Paul Hindemith:
  • Sonata for bassoon and piano (1938)
  • Four pieces for cello and bassoon (1941)
  • Concerto for trumpet, bassoon and orchestra (1949)
  • Concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, harp and orchestra (1949)
• Bertold Hummel:
  • Concertino for bassoon and strings, Op. 27b (1964/1992)
  • 5 Epigrams for bassoon solo Op. 51 (1973)
  • Divertimento for bassoon and violoncello, Op. 62 (1978)
• Gordon Jacob:
  • Concerto for bassoon, strings and percussion
  • Four Sketches for bassoon
  • Partita for bassoon
• Paul Jeanjean: Prelude and Scherzo for bassoon and piano (1911)
• André Jolivet:
  • Concerto for bassoon, strings, harp and piano (1954)
  • Pastorales de Noël for flute, bassoon and harp (1943)
• Lev Knipper: Concerto for bassoon and strings (1969)
• Charles Koechlin:
  • Three pieces for bassoon and piano, Op. 18 (1899-1907)
  • Sonata for bassoon and piano, Op.71 (1918)
  • Silhouettes de comédie, 12 pieces for bassoon and orchestra, Op. 193 (1942-1943)
• György Kurtág: Játékok és üzenetek for solo bassoon (1986–2001)
• Mary Jane Leach: Feu de Joie for solo bassoon and six taped bassoons (1992)
• Anne LeBaron: After a Dammit to Hell for bassoon solo (1982)
• Jef Maes: Burlesque for bassoon and piano (1957)
• Francisco Mignone:
  • Double Bassoon Sonata
  • 16 valses for bassoon
  • Concertino for bassoon and orchestra (1957)
• Willson Osborne: Rhapsody for bassoon
• Andrzej Panufnik: Concerto for bassoon and small orchestra (1985)
• Sergei Prokofiev: Humoristic Scherzo for four bassoons, Op. 12b (1915)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara: Bassoon Sonata (1970)
• Alan Ridout: Concertino for bassoon and strings (1975)
• Timothy Salter:
  • Monopolies for solo bassoon (1995)
  • Imprints for bassoon and piano (1997)
• Richard Strauss: Duet Concertino for clarinet and bassoon with strings and harp (1948)
• Stjepan Šulek: Concerto for bassoon and orchestra
• Alexandre Tansman:
  • Sonatine for bassoon and piano
  • Suite for bassoon and piano
• Heitor Villa-Lobos: Ciranda das sete notas for bassoon and string orchestra (1933)
• John Williams: The Five Sacred Trees: Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (1995)
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Suite-concertino for bassoon and chamber orchestra (1933)
• Isang Yun: Monolog for bassoon solo (1983-1984)
• Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (1992)

Twenty-first century[edit]

• Howard J. Buss: Ballad for bassoon and piano (2004) ; Behind the Invisible Mask for bassoon and one percussion (2004); Concerto for Bassoon for bassoon and piano, 2017; Fables from Aesop for bassoon and violin (2002); Four Miniatures for two bassoons (2010); Aquarius for 3 bassoons (2013); Levi's Dream for bassoon quartet (2011); Prelude and Intrada for bassoon quartet or ensemble (2007); Contrasts in Blue for oboe, bassoon and piano (2000); Cosmic Portraits for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (2009); Emanations for two bassoons and drum set, 2016; The Enchanted Garden for bassoon and string trio, 2016; The Heavens Awaken for bassoon and string quartet (2008); Luminous Horizons for bassoon and harp, 2016; Trio Lyrique for horn, bassoon and piano (2013); Turbulent Times for flute, bassoon and piano; Village Scenes for oboe, clarinet and bassoon (2004).
• Miguel del Aguila:Sunset Song for bassoon and piano; Nostalgica for bassoon and string quartet; Malambo for bassoon and string quartet (also with quintet and string orchestra); Malambo for bassoon and piano; Tango Trio for bassoon clarinet and piano; or bassoon, oboe and piano
• Eric Ewazen: Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble (2002)
• Robert Paterson: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano^[2] (2001); Elegy for Two Bassoons and Piano^[3] (2006–07)
• Wolfgang Rihm: Psalmus for bassoon and orchestra (2007)
• Ananda Sukarlan: 'Communication Breakdown' for flute, bassoon and piano (2017)
• Graham Waterhouse: Basson Quintet (2003); Bright Angel for three bassoons and contrabassoon (2008)
• Robert Rønnes: 5 Sonatas for Bassoon and Piano (1994–2009)
• Patrick Nunn: Gonk for Bassoon and Sound File (2004)

Works featuring prominent bassoon passages[edit]

• Johann Sebastian Bach: many bassoon passages, including: BWV 155 (Du mußt glauben, du mußt hoffen) and BWV 149 (Seid wachsam, Ihr heiligen Wächter).
• Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; the second movement features woodwind instruments in pairs, beginning with the bassoons, and the recapitulation of their duet adds a third instrument playing a staccato counter-melody.
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, fourth movement; Symphony 9 in D minor: fourth movement: --after the 24-measure exposition of the Ode to Joy (Allegro assai), the first bassoon enters with a prominent counter-melody for the next 24 measures; and continues a solo to add emphasis to the theme.
• Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique. In the fourth movement, there are several solo and tutti bassoon passages. This piece calls for four bassoons.
• Georges Bizet: Carmen, Entr'acte to Act II features two bassoons initially in unison to the tune of 'Dragons d'Alcala' from the opera.
• Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variation D features the bassoons.
• Emmanuel Chabrier : España, four bassoons in unison play a Spanish tune.
• Frédéric Chopin: 'Piano Concerto No. 2 (Chopin)', measures 82, etc. of the Larghetto feature a sublime moment for the bassoon.
• Michael Daugherty: Alligator Alley features bassoon solos at the beginning and lively melody through the whole piece.
• Gaetano Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima, from the Italian opera, L'elisir d'amore, opens with a solo bassoon passage.
• Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, widely recognized as used in the film Fantasia; the main melody is first heard in a famous bassoon solo passage.
• Manuel de Falla: The Three-cornered Hat, where the bassoon represents El corregidor (the magistrate).
• Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King.
• Georg Friedrich Handel: many bassoon passages: including: 'Ariodante': 'Scherza infida' (with mournful bassoon obligato); and 'Amadigi': 'Pena tiranna.'
• Franz Josef Haydn: The Creation: 'Holde Gattin'; and Symphony No. 68.
• W A Mozart: many, for example, 'Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)', as mentioned above; 'Great Mass in C minor, K. 427', in the Et incarnatus est, the bassoon is one of three obligato soloists to accompany the soprano.
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition as orchestrated by Maurice Ravel; particularly 'Promenade II', 'Il Vecchio Castello', and 'Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells'. A brief solo appears in the second part of 'The Hut on the Fowl's Legs: Baba Yaga'
• Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, the main theme of the first movement is introduced by a pair of bassoons.
• Carl Orff: Carmina Burana, the 12th movement, 'Olim lacus colueram', opens with a high bassoon solo.
• Krzysztof Penderecki: Symphony no. 4 'Adagio', a long solo passage followed by strings in the background appears in the middle of the symphony.
• Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, the theme of the grandfather; Piano Concerto No.3 in C major Op.26, third movement, bassoon and cellos play the theme in staccato and pizzicato.
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: 'Entrée de Polymnie', from the Act IV of his posthumous opera Les Boréades
• Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, features a fast, lengthy dual cadenza at the end of the first movement; Boléro, the bassoon has a high descending solo passage near the beginning; Piano Concerto in G Major; Piano Concerto in D Major (for the left hand), prominent use of contrabassoon in the opening; Ma mère l'oye a contrabassoon solo in the fourth part; Alborada del gracioso, solo after the theme, a long solo.
• Ottorino Respighi: 'Trittico Botticelliano', the second movement, L'Adorazione dei Magi, opens with a bassoon solo which transitions into an oboe/bassoon duet - the bassoon appears solo later in the movement also in a different figure.
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, second movement: 'Tale of the Kalendar Prince'
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Several symphonies includingNo. 1, No. 4, No. 5, No. 7 'Leningrad'first movement, No. 8, and No. 9(4th to 5th movement, one of the biggest bassoon solos in the symphonic repertoire), No. 10, No. 15.
• Jean Sibelius: Symphony 2 in D minor, second movement opening—bassoons play in octaves; Symphony 5 in E-flat major.
• Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, opens with a famously unorthodox bassoon solo; The Firebird, 'Berceuse'; 'Infernal Dance' with contrabassoon, horns, trombone, tuba; Pulcinella Suite.
• Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemayá, prominently features a solo bassoon playing an ostinato that represents the syllabic rhythm of the poem on which the piece is based, also named Sensemayá by Nicolás Guillén.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony 4 in F minor, Symphony 5 in E minor, Symphony 6 in B minor.
• Giuseppe Verdi : La donna è mobile, from the opera Rigoletto, bassoon plays the theme on the end of the aria; Messa da Requiem, 1st bassoon has an extended passage which begins solo but then accompanies the soprano, mezzo and tenor in the Quid sum miser section of the Dies Irae.

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References[edit]

1. ^'Rosetti Bassoon Concertos — Catalog and Track Listing'. Naxos Records. 2003. Retrieved 7 September 2008. The E♭ concerto is mentioned in the notes to the recording, see the link on the left.
2. ^Sonata for Bassoon and PianoArchived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^'Elegy for Two Bassoons and Piano'. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.Cite uses deprecated parameter dead-url= (help)