Kaufman Music Center – What Makes It Great? Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings at Merkin Hall

With host Rob Kapilow & the Manhattan School of Music SinfoniaIn this exploration of one of Tchaikovskys most beautiful pieces, host Rob Kapilow takes on the many misconceptions we have about this legendary composer. Though today we think of him as the quintessential Russian nationalist composer, Tchaikovsky considered himself European and dismissed Russian composers as amateurs and dilettantes. Hes labeled as a Romantic, yet he used the most technically sophisticated European compositional techniques and forms. Youll gain a whole new context for listening to the works of Tchaikovsky, whose turbulent life and mysterious death make him one of the 19th centurys most intriguing personalities