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Tag Archives: Tone Poem Tuesday
Tuesday Tones
Jonathan Bailey Holland is a composer originally from Flint, MI who is currently the Dead of the Bienen School of Music at Northwester University. According to his bio, he has had music performed by ensembles all over the world, and … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones (extending Black History Month, just because)
I couldn’t decide which of three pieces to feature today, so I said to myself, “Why limit myself to one?” That’s right, you get all three. Composer and flautist Valerie Coleman has had a deeply impressive career already. A native of … Continue reading
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Tagged Black History Month, Tone Poem Tuesday
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Tuesday Tones (Black History Month)
Oh, is THIS piece a “banger”, as the kids say! (A really good song is a banger now. Up ’til now, if you said “banger” to me, I’d have assumed you were talking about a British breakfast sausage.) Composer Kevin … Continue reading
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Tagged Black History Month, Tone Poem Tuesday
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Tuesday Tones (Black History Month)
Courtney Bryan is a composer from New Orleans, born in 1982, who is currently a professor of music at Tulane University. She holds a doctorate and was a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. She is also, by the evidence of the piece … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
I kind of screwed up my calendar this year, which means that I missed the start of Black History Month when posting last week’s selection. For the last bunch of years I’ve been using this month to feature Black music … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
Today we conclude the exploration of Music Inspired By Water, with a gigantic work by English master Ralph Vaughan Williams. From what I’ve learned, I could keep doing Music Inspired By Water for months! But I think it’s time to … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
The recent theme here, Works Inspired By Water, will be wrapping up next week…not for lack of works to continue presenting, but because I want to move on to other things! This particular theme, which occurred to me almost randomly … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
Continuing our ongoing exploration of classical music inspired by water in some way, we have this short and lovely piece by Maurice Ravel. It took me longer than I suppose it should have to “discover” Ravel, because my introduction to … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
Continuing with our exploration of music with a water theme or inspired by water, we look at the early days of American classical music. America didn’t really “come of age” musically until the 20th century, with the arrival of jazz … Continue reading
Tuesday Tones
The weekly music feature returns! As does the theme we were exploring before December took over: music inspired by water, or written with a watery “theme”. And today we have two works, by two titans of classical music, neither one of … Continue reading