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Tag Archives: Music
My Birthday Number One Song List
So today I turn 43. Yay. Let there be dancing in the streets…and for the street-dancing, I can provide a handy songlist! SamuraiFrog and Roger both did this, and I’m never one to let something like this pass, so here’s … Continue reading
How do I get to Carnegie Hall?
A reader asks a good question: How much should a 10-year-old trumpet player practice daily? As in all such things, it depends. Such guidance should really be given with the advice of the kid’s music teacher, who knows a lot … Continue reading
Symphony Saturday
Next up: Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn is a composer I’m not terribly familiar with, I’m sorry to say. Like many of the great musical prodigies, he lived quickly and died young, when he was only 38 years old. In those thirty-eight … Continue reading
Symphony Saturday
This post got swallowed by The Move That Ate Tokyo, but now that routine is at long last shaping up at Casa Jaquandor 2.0, it’s time to get back to this. We’ll continue with the symphonies of Robert Schumann, this … Continue reading
But on the other hand….
Last week I cited an example of why I find most interactions of the fannish variety maddening anymore, and thus I don’t bother. Fairness would seem to dictate that I give a rare good example, so here’s something written by … Continue reading
Symphony Saturday
Today we come to the end of Hector Berlioz’s symphonic output, during which we’ve seen that Berlioz was one of the most unique of symphonists, refusing to adhere to the standards of the symphonic form. This work is no exception. … Continue reading
Hector and Me: My relationship with France’s greatest composer
This is a repost of a piece I wrote — oh my God! — over ten years ago, on the bicentennary of the birth of Hector Berlioz. I’m reposting it as prelude to today’s Symphony Saturday post. In the movie … Continue reading
Symphony Saturday
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. There’s honestly not a great deal I can say about this work that hasn’t been said before and better. It’s one of the towering masterworks of all of music, and likely of all human art. The … Continue reading
Symphony Saturday
And now, we come to the Colossus that overshadows pretty much the entire history of the symphony since he put his pen to paper: Ludwig van Beethoven, whose nine symphonies represent one of the greatest of all human artistic achievements. … Continue reading
Symphony Saturday: Mozart
Last week’s inaugural Symphony Saturday post featured one of Mozart’s youthful works. This week, we turn to what might be his greatest symphony, the Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K 551. Mozart died just three years after completing this … Continue reading