Tag Archives: Tone Poem Tuesday

Sorry for the late posting, but geez, I’m having a busy bunch of days here. Wowza. Anyway, here’s an old favorite of mine. I haven’t heard a lot of Edward Elgar’s music, but whenever I listen to him I come … Continue reading →

I am really stretching the idea of a “tone poem” with today’s selection, because what we have today is not an orchestral piece at all but rather a choral one, with much of it being a capella (there’s a piano … Continue reading →

“Crap, do you think he forgot about us?” “Yup.” “And he just remembered to post a Tone Poem for Tuesday?” “Yup.” “Do you think that means he’ll retreat to his default ‘I forgot to post something’ mode and give us … Continue reading →

I heard this work on the radio this past Sunday, and I made a note to look up what it was. Sadly I didn’t remember to do that until Monday, when St. Patrick’s Day was already over, because it turns … Continue reading →

Time for something of a musical homecoming. I’ll be featuring the music of Hector Berlioz a lot over the next few months, as we’ve just past the 150th anniversary of his passing after a 65-year life of struggle and hardship … Continue reading →

An old favorite returns. This work is the kind of thing I return to when I need the world to slow down, when I need to recall that there is room in this world we’ve built for quiet moments and … Continue reading →

I imagine I’ve featured this work before, but that’s what’s great about classical music: You can keep coming back to it! Sir Edward Elgar composed this concert overture, “Cockaigne (In London Town),” in fulfillment of a commission from the Royal … Continue reading →

Jacques Offenbach might well have been the French equivalent of Franz von Suppe and, later on, Vienna’s Strauss family in that he wrote a great deal of very pleasing music of high energy which was often infused with the rhythms … Continue reading →

When in doubt, there are always Mozart and Beethoven. In 1822 Karl Friedrich Hensler, a Vienna dramatist and theater manager, was opening a rebuilt venue called the Theater in der Josefstadt, which still stands and is apparently now the oldest … Continue reading →