Tag Archives: Tone Poem Tuesday

Starting off 2018’s musical selections with a short and lovely setting by Percy Grainger: a familiar folk tune from Scotland, “Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon”. Grainger is always worth returning to, for his sonorous settings and his ability … Continue reading →

A break from the Christmas music! Here we have the Welsh Rhapsody by Sir Edward German, a composer who lived from 1862 to 1936. He is most well-known for several of his light operas, as he was seen during his … Continue reading →

I’ve been exploring with some fascination the American composers of the late Romantic era, the ones whose music is rarely heard these days because none of it really goes beyond the stylings of what was going on musically in Europe … Continue reading →

Urg. It’s been a busy and hectic several days here, what with The Store ramping up for Thanksgiving and an annual visit from the people whose name is on the front of the building, to pounding out words for NaNoWriMo … Continue reading →

I heard this work a few weeks ago while driving home, and made sure to make note of it. Ernest Farrar was a British composer born in 1885, but his life and career were ended in September 1918, when he … Continue reading →

Antonin Dvorak wrote this work, The Noon Witch, after his return to Europe from the United States. It is a musical telling of a horrible story: A mother warns her son that if he does not behave she will summon … Continue reading →

Another hallmark of scary classical music: A Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky.

Here’s something I’ve never heard before: The Mask of the Red Death, a work for harp and string quartet by Andre Caplet. Caplet was a French composer and a contemporary of Claude Debussy, and in fact his most noted work … Continue reading →

It’s October, which is usually my favorite month of the year. We’re off to a rocky start this year, aren’t we…but life still must go on. I’m doing a theme to the Tone Poems for this entire month, starting today. … Continue reading →

Happy birthday, George Gershwin! And also, Happy Birthday, Jim Caviezel! And Happy Birthday, Olivia Newton John! Also, happy birthday to me, but that’s not so important.