Tag Archives: Tone Poem Tuesday

An old favorite, in two ways: first, because the music is obviously amazing, and second, because the accompanying animation is also amazing. Here is Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, as performed and animated for the Disney film Fantasia 2000.

Today, a concerto: specifically, a trumpet concerto. This one was written by the great film composer John Williams, who has somehow over his incredibly busy years of scoring many films and maintaining a hectic conducting schedule managed to find time … Continue reading →

Igor Stravinsky is not a composer i know terribly well, and honestly, that bothers me a bit. More than a bit, really. Stravinsky is considered to be the major bridge composer between the Romantic era and the Modern one. His art … Continue reading →

I wrote yesterday about how we attended the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance to film of the score to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I noted how impressed I was with the orchestra’s technical precision during the action cues, particularly the … Continue reading →

Today we’re going to listen to three different versions of the same piece! But don’t worry, the piece is really short. Like, really short. It’s about a minute long. And if you have ever been a viewer of CBS Sunday Morning, you … Continue reading →

It’s a very busy week, so as is customary around here when it’s like that, here’s some Franz von Suppe. Enjoy!

Some pieces of music, like Beethoven’s Fifth or the William Tell Overture, become so overplayed as to become virtual cliche. The same can be said of Mozart’s Serenade #13 in G Major for strings, which is better known for the title … Continue reading →