OK, it’s the 26th, which means I’m out of scheduled posts. I want to post something but I’m still too jetlagged, two days after arriving home, to really come up with something coherent (the reason why will be a post of its own), so here’s what I’m going to post: a randomly selected concerto.
I will be using random.org to roll a die. The results will determine our concerto for today.
Roll One: A violin or a piano concerto? Odd numbers: violin; even numbers: piano.
The roll: 2
A piano concerto it is!
Roll Two: A major-key or a minor-key concerto? Odd numbers: major, even numbers: minor.
The roll: 5
A minor-key piano concerto it is!
OK, now the meat of it: what composer shall we hear? I’m going to pick twelve composers who have all written minor-key piano concertos, using this Wikipedia page as my source. Then I will switch from random.org to Google’s dice roller gadget (just search “dice roller” and it comes right up) to roll a d12 to determine our composer. OK? OK!
Here are our composers (this could get awkward if it turns out I can’t find the resulting concerto on YouTube, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it):
- Beethoven
- Amy Beach
- MacDowell
- Rachmaninoff
- Chopin
- Glazunov
- Balakirev
- Dvorak
- Tchaikovsky
- Schumann
- Brahms
- Saint-Saens
Some of these composers wrote more than one minor-key concerto…but first, let’s roll!
[clicks]
And…Glazunov!
OK, let’s see what we can find on YouTube…and, here it is. Enjoy the Concerto No. 1 in F minor for piano and orchestra, by Alexander Glazunov!
I have never heard this piece before, and in fact, as I write this I still haven’t, because I’m going to proceed with publishing this before I’ve even listened to the work at hand. That’s how I roll, y’all. I’ll give this a listen soon, but for now, I gotta go make more coffee.
Maybe I’ll randomize more music in the future….
You are a WILD thing!