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Re-Composing: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. One-Offs of the Damned - Charles Ives's Hallowe'en. The bad news is that there's Wiccan razor blades in your caramel apples, and the worse news is that you're apparently the kind of person who likes pulling their own teeth out trying to eat caramel apples. The good news is that I found the perfect piece to showcase on Halloween night, Charles Ives's Hallowe'en. From his Three Outdoor Pieces. The second time just the first violin and viola at mp. And the fourth time everybody ff.
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Re-Composing: Oldrich Korte's Magic Lantern Music
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Oldrich Korte's Magic Lantern Music. In the heart of Prague sits a shimmering brass cube, and the cube is heart of Laterna Magika. While I can't say that Korte's music is Avant-Garde per se. His first major work is the Sinfonietta. Is neither particularly short, easy or written for reduced orchestration as the name implies. In that same spirit, here's a sonata with only two movements:. The Sonata for Piano. If there ever was a concert forebear to Korte's work with Laterna Magika ...
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Penny For Their Thoughts: May 2014
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Penny For Their Thoughts. Reviewing movies, music and books I got for a penny on Amazon. Sunday, May 11, 2014. Greetings from Burkittsville by Sisyphus. Whether or not you like The Blair Witch Project. Is an utter kick to the nuts for any serious horror fan. I was reminded of Book. Frustrating botched potential when I watched the Nostalgia Critic's comedy review. As part of the Blair Witch. Franchise", mostly made with little-to-no input from the original directors of the movie, Daniel Myrick. Is notable...
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Forgotten Leaves: Forgotten Leaves meets the new Sopranino Tuba repertoire
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Saturday, May 30, 2015. Forgotten Leaves meets the new Sopranino Tuba repertoire. Classical music is generally a polite environment, free of trash talk and slams (at least when Satie stays out of it). That doesn't mean that the scene isn't entirely insultless, such as today's case. I'm a member of a Facebook group called Composers for Performers, Performers for Composers. Reference. One of the best details is a noteless repeated section with the instruction "Just fucking throw 'Dies Irae' in there a ...
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Forgotten Leaves: A haunted vanity - "A Spectre" from Five Woodcuts for piccolo and two violins
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. A haunted vanity - "A Spectre" from Five Woodcuts for piccolo and two violins. As I've yet to find too many horror-appropriate classical pieces it should come at no surprise that there are exceedingly few leaves that qualify (and most of those I'm keeping for my article on Kubiniana. I challenged myself to confine each piece to one page, and the one that ended up with the most variety per second was "A Spectre". And the Three Japanese Lyrics. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Re-Composing: Happiness Month One-Off - Charles Villiers Stanford's The Bluebird
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Friday, December 12, 2014. Happiness Month One-Off - Charles Villiers Stanford's The Bluebird. The lake lay blue below the hill,. O'er it, as I looked, there flew. Across the waters, cold and still,. A bird whose wings were palest blue. The sky above was blue at last,. The sky beneath me blue in blue,. A moment, ere the bird had passed,. It caught his image as he flew. Bruce Simonds's Prelude on "Iam sol recedit igneus". I was particularly moved by the recording below by the Finnish group Lumen Valo, and...
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Forgotten Leaves: May 2014
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Monday, May 12, 2014. A Languedoc Tantum Ergo. Perhaps it's due to the glut of brilliant talents that French classical music produced at the fin de siècle. With Brittany and quite notably Joseph Canteloube. With Auvergne, whose Chants d'Auvergne. Are sung quite frequently. Heck, I would've covered Joseph-Ermend Bonnal. Likewise, Déodat de Séverac. And there are plenty of recordings of his piano works (including an. I'll freely admit that. Séverac's setting of the Tantum Ergo. Isn't recognizably Languedoc...
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Forgotten Leaves: Penderecki on the art of dancing on violin strings
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Penderecki on the art of dancing on violin strings. Has had a very long, storied career, pioneering Avant-Garde music in Poland right after Stalin and his artistic policies died and further distinguishing himself from there. Unlike a lot of composers, however, Penderecki's music only got more accessible as it went on. His most well-known work is the Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. From a little movie called Shutter Island. Though admittedly a bit more.soundtracky. ...Piece...
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Penny For Their Thoughts: October 2014
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Penny For Their Thoughts. Reviewing movies, music and books I got for a penny on Amazon. Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Disquiet (2008) by Julia Leigh. While I don't have much of an explanation for leaving these blogs bereft of recent content I can say that I've been reading a lot of books recently. In the past months I've knocked out. Sustained alchemical daydreaming by lost adult children),. Much better than I was expecting),. One of the funniest books I've ever read),. Excellent philosophical sci-fi),.
