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Tone Poem Tuesday
Today was annoying and obnoxious, so I’m just declaring today done. Feh. (No, nothing bad, just one of those days where the planned work not only doesn’t go as easily as it should, but it also keeps getting interrupted by … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Caroline Shaw is a composer, singer, and violinist who has emerged as one of the bright new voices in classical music. She has already won the Pulitzer Prize for one of her works, and she has composed a lot of … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
A very modern work today, by Canadian composer Cassandra Miller. Duet for Cello and Orchestra is almost avant-garde in its conception: a solo cello plays the same droning two notes, a perfect fifth apart, through the entire work, marking the time … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Works that are entirely for percussion are always interesting. I just discovered this one today: it is called Six Japanese Gardens, for mixed percussion and electronics, written by Finnish composer Kaija Saarioho. Not only did I just discover this work … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Here’s an interesting piece! I didn’t realize this was even available online until a few weeks ago when I looked up the composer by name. Linda Robbins Coleman is a composer, conductor, and teacher from Iowa whose symphonic poem Journeys was … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Florence Price, who was one of my major musical discoveries (maybe “revelations” is a better term?) of 2020, wrote this wonderful String Quartet in G Major in 1929, and…that’s just about all the information I can find about it. It’s … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
In honor of the passing of Chuck Yeager (with a typically wonderful memorial by post by Sheila O’Malley), here is a suite of music by Bill Conti from the film The Right Stuff, which adapted the Tom Wolfe book that … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday: The Beethoven Jubilee Begins!
This is the month when Ludwig van Beethoven turns 250 years old…fifteen days from now, to be precise. In honor of this, I’ll be stepping up the frequency of Beethoven-related posts–not quite daily, I expect, but there will be a … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
First off, I think it’s high time I admitted that this series has morphed away from an exclusive focus on tone poems toward a general focus on whatever piece of classical music I’m grooving on at any point in time, … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Charles Lucien Lambert (1828-1896) was born a free person of color in Louisiana. A talented pianist and composer, he moved as a young man to Paris where his son Lucien-Leon joined him in music-making, and their compositions were received warmly … Continue reading