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This is a collection of program notes, lectures and other writings by Dr. Laurence R. Taylor (1937-2004). Most of them were written for the Princeton Symphony and Opera Festival of New Jersey but some were for the Newtown Chamber Orchestra and Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra as well as some recitals. I am trying to get these online as fast as possible. There will be some strange formatting. Whenever you see a phrase in ALL CAPS he meant italics. Somehow pressing that little i button was too much trouble :) I will edit them to make that change when time allows. Suggestions are also welcome. Also you will find that LRT used British orthography even though he lived most of his life in New Jersey. Those spellings will remain since in his words "[I have had a] Close lifelong with British musical life – with annual return visits to refresh the soul by rejoining British friends, and drinking in a wide range of musical life there."


You may reprint any of the materials posted here for no charge as long as credit is given in the printed material to Laurence R. Taylor. I'd be delighted to receive a copy too.

Gene De Lisa

Saturday, February 5, 2000

Bizet: Fandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2

Fandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2

Georges Bizet (1837-1875)

In 1872 Bizet composed 27 short orchestral numbers as incidental music for Alphonse Daudet’s play, L’Arlesienne, music which is often regarded as close in spirit to the vivid musical characterization of Carmen. The play is set in Provence, that intensely Latin part of southern France, which shares with Spain a brilliant and reckless Mediterranean temperament. The Farandole, which concludes the suite, is a dance movement, at first quiet and unassuming (with a pair of flutes playing the first of the two main melodies), passed on to the other winds, the secondary tune heard in the violins, later the trumpet. The effect of the movement is a constant crescendo, pressing ever onward, gaining in velocity, racing onward ever faster until ending in a breathless whirl.

GPYO concert

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