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Tone Poem Tuesday
A piano concerto, today, and a very modern one at that: composed in 2018 and premiered a year later, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? is the third piano concerto by composer John Adams. Adams is best known for … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Reading Alex Ross’s book Listen to This, a compilation of his columns from The New Yorker, I was reading a chapter on Icelander singer Björk, and I came across this passage: Modern Icelandic music begins with Jón Leifs, who lived from 1899 … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Another hectic and somewhat draining day…but with the promise of better things to come. Hang in there, y’all! Meanwhile, you know the drill. Here’s Franz Von Suppe.
Tone Poem Tuesday
Busy day, so that means: Franz von Suppe! Here’s “Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna”.
Tone Poem Tuesday
It’s a tone poem by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, a Russian composer whose music has fallen into unfortunate and unfair obscurity over the years since his life. This tone poem is notable for featuring a soprano voice in addition to the orchestra, … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday (Rachmaninoff at 150)
I’ve featured this piece before, and it’s not even by Rachmaninoff. So how does it tie in? Because when it was composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight, a World War II potboiler whose protagonist is a talented pianist and composer, it … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday (actually a symphony, but it’s MY blog, and I say it counts)
So April is over and May is upon us! Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth month is passed…but we’re not going to be turning away from him in my various online outlets, not at all. Stand by for more Rachmaninoff! But for now, … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday: Rachmaninoff at 150, the many lives of “Vocalise”
There are some pieces of music that take on lives of their own, extending far beyond their origins to become something bigger. Rachmaninoff wrote a song cycle in 1915 called 14 Romances, op. 34. We’ve already noted that Rachmaninoff was … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
It’s a really busy week all of a sudden, so you know the drill. Enjoy Poet and Peasantby Franz von Suppe!
Tone Poem Tuesday
When Sergei Rachmaninoff was just 20, he wrote his first major orchestral work, a symphonic fantasy called The Rock, or sometimes The Crag. No lesser a musical luminary than Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was impressed with the piece–there was a brief relationship … Continue reading
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