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Category Archives: On Music
Tuesday Tones
I don’t know if this composer has ever been featured on this blog at all, either in this incarnation or in the Byzantium’s Shores era. So I’ve just done a search, and it turns out that not only have I not featured … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
So for Tuesday Tones the other day, I went to feature a piece of music that I know I’ve featured here before but I couldn’t remember how long it’s been, so I looked it up. I featured it less than … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
Rossini, and the US Marine Band. That’s just a match made in Heaven. Here’s the Overture to William Tell.
Something for Thursday
For years I basically wanted nothing to do with Antonio Vivaldi. I have been coming around on him for a while now–maybe ten years?–so I’m happy to present this, which Roger helpfully shared with me. No, it’s not a “straight” … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
First, watch this new video of mine, which explains why we’re featuring the work in the one below it: Now, watch this. It’s good! I’ve never seen a performance like this before.
Something for Thursday
Last week we watched Say Anything, which has been one of my favorite movies ever since it hit me between the eyes when I saw it in spring 1989 when it came out. To this day I consider it the best … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
Today, a piece I really don’t like. But it is one of the best-known pieces of classical music ever composed, and last week–on the 7th, actually–marked the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. And as performances of a piece I … Continue reading
Op. 72
An offering for Roger! And what an Opus 72 it is. Actually, the entire opera is Beethoven’s Opus 72 (it’s the only opera he wrote), but we’ll just present the Overture here. The entire opera is well worth hearing, if … Continue reading
Something for Thursday (Friday edition)
Oops. I had this picked and ready to post yesterday. I just…didn’t. Hey, whaddaya gonna do. Anyway, here’s Buddy Rich on drums with a big band playing some Count Basie: it’s “One O’Clock Jump”. This is amazing stuff!
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Tuesday Tones
Busy and hectic and not a lot of time for writing, so here’s Franz von Suppe, but with one of his great overtures transcribed for wind ensemble.