Tag Archives: Tone Poem Tuesday

I don’t know if this composer has ever been featured on this blog at all, either in this incarnation or in the Byzantium’s Shores era. So I’ve just done a search, and it turns out that not only have I not featured … Continue reading →

Rossini, and the US Marine Band. That’s just a match made in Heaven. Here’s the Overture to William Tell.

First, watch this new video of mine, which explains why we’re featuring the work in the one below it: Now, watch this. It’s good! I’ve never seen a performance like this before.

Today, a piece I really don’t like. But it is one of the best-known pieces of classical music ever composed, and last week–on the 7th, actually–marked the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. And as performances of a piece I … Continue reading →

Busy and hectic and not a lot of time for writing, so here’s Franz von Suppe, but with one of his great overtures transcribed for wind ensemble.

I’m growing more and more attracted to the abstract, I’ve found. I think part of this comes from the greatly-increased amount of time we’ve been spending in art galleries and museums, particularly the Buffalo AKG Museum, with its amazing collection … Continue reading →

Here’s a piece I heard last week on my drive home from work. I was immediately transfixed by its color and energy, to the point that I sat in my car in the driveway while it finished. The composer is … Continue reading →

Nkeiru Okoye was born in New York City in 1972 to a Nigerian father and an African-American mother. She graduated from Oberlin in 1993, which is the same year I graduated Wartburg College. Okoye is almost entirely contemporary with me. … Continue reading →

Yup, that’s what we’re calling this series now: Tuesday Tones, because it’s still going to be a music focus series, but it won’t just be tone poems. Not that it was before, really, because if there’s one thing I like to … Continue reading →

I’m thinking about renaming this weekly feature, in order to make it into a more broad focus on classical music, but more on that later when I’ve thought of a name that I like. Meanwhile, today I have a piece … Continue reading →