David Danzmayr conducted the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra in the American premiere of Alexander Zemlinsky’s Symphony No. 1 Saturday at the Harris Theater.
Every so often we attend concerts that remind us that our diet of Western classical repertoire represents only a pebble in the mountain of music penned by notable composers. It may be just as well that much of it gathers dust in distant archives, but occasionally one hears a convincing performance of a worthy but neglected work that leads to questions about the wisdom of posterity.
Case in point is the music of Alexander Zemlinsky, a Viennese composer from the dawn of the 20th century who found himself at the center of cataclysmic changes that would alter
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