Carl Nielsen

In the view of former FDA imports director, Carl Nielsen, that is key.

CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2010 2010

Aug. 19-21—Mr. Botstein will be conducting the resident American Symphony Orchestra in the composer's Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Symphonies, "Kullervo," "Lemminkäinen's Return," "The Oceanides," and "Finlandia," his single most familiar work, as well as related compositions by Samuel Barber, Carl Nielsen and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Nordic Exposure at Bard Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Michael and Anna Ancher gathered around them some of the most original artistic figures of their time, including writer Georg Brandes and composer Carl Nielsen.

Pilgrimage to the Tip of Denmark J. S. Marcus 2011

But for Carl Nielsen, a registered Republican from Woodstock, Conn., said the Bialek accusations pushed him over the edge.

Cain: No Memory of Latest Accuser Neil King Jr. 2011

For a good essay by The New Yorker's Alex Ross on Carl Nielsen and a review of a performance by Gilbert and the Philadelphia Orchestra of the same symphony, click here.

Alan Gilbert at the San Francisco Symphony sfmike 2008

For a good essay by The New Yorker's Alex Ross on Carl Nielsen and a review of a performance by Gilbert and the Philadelphia Orchestra of the same symphony, click here.

Archive 2008-03-01 sfmike 2008

The newly appointed conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, a mixed-race child of two NY Phil violinists, is conducting the San Francisco Symphony this week in a program of newish music by a composer named Steven Stucky, Mozart's Piano Concerto #18, and the second symphony of the Danish composer, Carl Nielsen.

Alan Gilbert at the San Francisco Symphony sfmike 2008

Alex Ross has made my week with this piece on Carl Nielsen.

Ross on Nielsen Patrick J. Smith 2008

The "Symphony No. 4" or "Symphonie concertante for Piano and Orchestra," depending on how it's billed, is one of the composer's final works and it has the sound of everybody from Carl Nielsen to Bartok in it, but the voice is definitely its own, and the wonderful performance made me want to go to Amoeba Records on a Szymanowski buying spree.

Emanuel Ax and the Art of Programming sfmike 2008

The newly appointed conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, a mixed-race child of two NY Phil violinists, is conducting the San Francisco Symphony this week in a program of newish music by a composer named Steven Stucky, Mozart's Piano Concerto #18, and the second symphony of the Danish composer, Carl Nielsen.

Archive 2008-03-01 sfmike 2008