Tag Archives: Tone Poem Tuesday

I wrote yesterday about how we attended the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance to film of the score to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I noted how impressed I was with the orchestra’s technical precision during the action cues, particularly the … Continue reading →

Today we’re going to listen to three different versions of the same piece! But don’t worry, the piece is really short. Like, really short. It’s about a minute long. And if you have ever been a viewer of CBS Sunday Morning, you … Continue reading →

It’s a very busy week, so as is customary around here when it’s like that, here’s some Franz von Suppe. Enjoy!

Some pieces of music, like Beethoven’s Fifth or the William Tell Overture, become so overplayed as to become virtual cliche. The same can be said of Mozart’s Serenade #13 in G Major for strings, which is better known for the title … Continue reading →

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 →

Rossini, and the US Marine Band. That’s just a match made in Heaven. Here’s the Overture to William Tell.

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.

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 →