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Tone Poem Tuesday
It’s August! I think August would count at “Midsummer”, right? Thus, here is some Mendelssohn: the overture to his suite of incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Tone Poem Tuesday
Technically, this isn’t a tone poem; it’s right up-front about being a concerto. But what a concerto it is, and it’s a masterpiece of tone painting as well. It is also a programmatic work, intended to tell a story. The … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday: Farewell, Andre Watts
Pianist Andre Watts has died. Watts was 77 years old when he died of prostate cancer last week. Born in 1946, Watts was best known for his expressive performances of piano music from the Romantic and early modern eras, which … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
John Adams’s first orchestral work, written in 1979, came well before the operatic work that made him well-known in the 1980s. It’s an interesting listen: solemn and meditative, and yet shot through with an odd kind of mystical optimism. On … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday: The Annotated “Stars and Stripes Forever” (a repost)
This is a repost of something I wrote some years ago. Back in my BlogSpot days this post was a regular driver of search-engine traffic to my blog; I’m not sure if that’s the case now or not, but it … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Aaron Copland.
Tone Poem Tuesday
A longer post breaking this unplanned hiatus is coming, but meantime…here’s Franz von Suppe! This is not an overture, though: It’s a march called Fatinitza.
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.