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Tone Poem Tuesday
Admittedly, I am phoning it in a little this week. Here’s a virtuoso showpiece for cornet and wind band, setting the Italian folksong “The Carnival of Venice”, as played by Wynton Marsalis and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, conducted by Donald … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Edward Bland (1926-2013) was a composer and filmmaker who may be best known for a film he made in 1959, The Cry of Jazz, which has been deemed sufficiently significant in the history of Black filmmaking that it has been … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
A native of Buffalo who later moved to San Francisco to pursue her music career, Pamela Z is a composer and performer who works extensively with electronic sounds, vocal sampling, and other sonic augmentations to create works with an intriguing … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I haven’t posted any Beethoven in a while, which is strange since it’s supposed to be a focus, given that 2020 is Beethoven’s 250th birth year. But here’s an interesting tidbit: even though it’s Beethoven, we’re not completely taking a … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1924, Julia Perry was a Black composer who studied widely, attending the Berkshire Music Centre and working with the great teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris and then relocating to Florence for further study before returning … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I had a piece picked out for this week, but it’s a pretty complex work that I want to hear a couple more times before I actually feature it, so this week I’ll take an “easy” route. This is a … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
While doing a bit of research for this post, I learned something that is actually a correction of something I’ve believed for years. Remember in the 70s when the ragtime piece “The Entertainer” was all the rage, because of its … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
William Grant Still is not new to this series, but the goal is to highlight music as well as composers, and to just hear one work by a composer and then move on forever seems…well, weird, doesn’t it? So let’s … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
You may remember a hilarious sketch comedy show from the 2000s called Key and Peele; and if you do, then you likely know that Jordan Peele, one half of the comedy duo from that show, has gone on to an … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Ulysses Kay was a Black composer who lived from 1917 to 1995. Born in Tucson to parents who encouraged music-making in the home, Kay went on to study music at the University of Arizona and the Eastman School of Music, … Continue reading