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PH0'I%u00a34IXP h ilk 'ir m n n%u25a0 %u25a0 i m i a u i 1 1 i v r irsic Gets Wi!d And Philosophical In JanuaryBY SHARON CUCINOTTAJanuary- is going to be a %u201cwild%u201d month, according to Lukas Foss, Musical Director and Conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Coming off the last 10 performances of Philip Glass%u2019 music in %u201cthe CIVIL warS%u201d on December 30, the Philharmonic will ring in the year with the second concert of its Command Performance series, continue with the Next Wave performance of William Bolcolm%u2019s titanic %u201cSongs of Innocence and Experience,%u201d and conclude with the first of this season%u2019s \duct all performances.The Command Performance concert promises the unusual with the New York premiere of a recently discovered work by modernist Anton Webern and the American premiere of a choral work, %u201cHymn to Life,%u201d by philosopher-poet Frederich Nietzche.Is is not generally known that Nietzche was a trained musician and a composer before turning to philosophy. His overshadowing intellectual fame seems to have cast his music into obscurity.Foss says he is fascinated by Nietzche the composer. \program for all intellectuals is the Nietzche. He was the greatest philosopher of his time. He also wrote about 30 compositions in his early life, and nobody knows them. I%u2019ve been wondering what Nietzche%u2019s music sounds like and now I know %u2014 but I won%u2019t tell. I want everyone to come and find out what such a great mind has wrought.%u201d PRESENTS ADVENTUROUS ROMANTICSWebern%u2019s %u201cThree Orchestral Studies on a Ground,%u201d an early work by a pioneer of 20th Century music, will not send subscription ticket holders running for the exits, Foss believes. %u201cThis is a very early piece of the composer. This example of early Webern is romantic. So this program is really aboutGerman Romanticism, but from a very adventurous point of view.%u201dAcclaimed Russian emigre pianist Bella Davidovich will join the orchestra in a performance of Robert. Schumann%u2019s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Balancing the more obscure German Romanticism with the familiar, Foss will lead the orchestra in Beethoven%u2019s Symphony No. 7.Foss likes to sculpt his programs, to %u201cprogram-build,%u201d as he calls it. The concert will begin with the Nietzsche choral hymn and will end with a short choral work by Beethoven, %u201cThe honor of God,%u201d both sung by the Grace Choral Society. %u201cThat brings the chorus back in and it gives the program a nice shape,%u201d he says.Following five days after the last Command Performance concert, the Philharmonic will perform William Bolcolm%u2019s monumental %u201cSongs of Innocence and Experience,%u201d to close the 1986 Next Wave Festival. The performances were postponed in November due to the strike by free-lance classical musicians.Bolcolm%u2019s work is set to the song-cycle by William Blake, which will be printed with many of Blake%u2019s fantastic color illustrations and distributed to the audience, just another ingredient in this brewing extravaganza.%u201cThis is a huge machinery%u201d explains Foss. %u201cIt%u2019s a big undertaking involving about 200 people on stage. There are three different choruses and electric instruments as well as a normal orchestra. It calls for pop and jazz musicians as well as classical. Anything can happen at any moment. One moment it%u2019s twelve tone and the next moment it%u2019s rock. This is not just a few poems, every poem is set. It should be sensational,%u201d he claims.Four days after the Philharmonic closes the Next Wave, it will open the %u201cMeet the Modems%u201d series with a program ofRussian pianist Bella Davidovich will jointhe Brooklyn Philharmonic for a perform %u00adance of Schumann's Piano Concerto in Aminor, in a program of German Romanticmusic.%u201cDiscoveries,%u201d highlighting young and rarely-heard composers.Foss says he gets at least a tape every day, sometimes several, from composers. He is also flooded with calls regarding pieces he might be interested in hearing. %u201cSo I have more possibilities of choosing a discovery than most other people,%u201d he confides.Richard TrythaU is an American composer living in Rome, who describes his work %u201cBolero%u201d as being %u201cchoreographed for four percussionists with solos, duets and trios interspersed with ensemble work.%u201dAnother established composer, JohnDowney, is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. His %u201cDiscourse for oboe, strings and harpsicord%u201d employs the use of multiphonics (several tones heard at once) for the oboe, featuring principal oboist Henry Schuman.Ivan Tcherepnin was bom in Paris and is now Director of Harvard%u2019s Electronic Music Studio. His %u201cThe New Rhythmantics%u201d explores rhythmic and melodic patterns using electronic devices and live musicians.Leo Kraft%u2019s Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra is a world premiere written for this year%u2019s %u201cMeet the Modems,%u201d and will feature clarinetist Steven D. Hartman. Robert Stem%u2019s %u201cAncora una fantasia%u201d is the third in a series of works based on a madrigal by 14th Century Italian composer Florentia. It seeks to translate 14th Century vocal styles into the vocabulary of 20th Century instrumental terms.In addition to these works to be performed, Foss made another %u201cdiscovery%u201d he will share with Brooklyn audiences. %u201cDr. Kenneth Altman, a physician, wrote a charming, very touching piece about the Challenger. The shuttle disaster will be just about a year old when we give this program. We%u2019re going to end the program with that. It should be very, very special,%u201d he concludes.PHILHARMONIC IN JANUARY: Command Performance series, January 2 and 3, at 8pm, and January 4, at 2pm. Tickets are $7. %u201cSongs of Innocence and Experience,%u201d January 9 and 10, at 8pm, and January 11, at 2pm. Tickets are $20, $16 and $10. %u201cMeet the Modems,%u201d January 15 and 16, at 8pm. Tickets are $7. All performances at Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, 30 Lafayette Avenue, except January 16, at Cooper Union in Manhattan. 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