Moresca

What I found was a program of the Young People’s Composer Concert that took place February 11 through the 13 in the year 1978. The orchestra that played for the concert was none other than the New York Philharmonic orchestra. The conductor is Gunther Schuller and the featured is soloist Beverly Sills. I noticed quite a few things on this program and have questions of my own as well.

The program states that the concert started at 2:00 pm on February 11 and at 11:00 am on February 13 in at the Avery Fisher Hall and I also discovered that the Moresca is a piece apart of the opera. But why only one piece from the opera? Operas are usually sung pieces so what’s different? All other pieces are pieces by other composers that have no lyrics? Why not premiere the entire opera? Why does Morteverdi’s Moresca fit the program but not the others? Programs and concerts are designed specifically to fit perfectly in sound.

Concert program, 11 Feb 1978, Program ID 3927, New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives.
https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/3536ffef-7a1e-439e-b84c-53ea80e32bc0-0.1

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