Tag Archives: Tone Poem Tuesday

Luigi Cherubini is a composer with whom I am almost completely unfamiliar, except by reputation…and that reputation is via the impressions left behind by another composer with whom I am very familiar. Unfortunately for Cherubini, that composer is Hector Berlioz, who … Continue reading →

Leonard Bernstein was born 106 years plus two days ago, on August 25, 1918. Oddly, I’ve never written much about him here, have I? I really should change that one of these days…maybe after I finally get Maestro off the … Continue reading →

I get asked all the time: “Hey, when you were a young musician, what was the first Sousa march you ever played?” [RON HOWARD NARRATOR VOICE: This is false. Nobody asks him this.] OK, fine, but anyway: when I was … Continue reading →

Longtime readers will recognize (I hope!) the name of Russian composer Vasily Kalinnikov, who was a deeply gifted composer who seemed destined to rise to towering greatness in late Russian Romanticism had he not sadly died of tuberculosis when he … Continue reading →

I don’t think I’ve featured Alexander Borodin in quite a while! Time to rectify that with a piece I’ve featured before, and will feature again, because it’s just that good. First, though, a question: Who is an artist whose output … Continue reading →

One problem with taking a three-day weekend, with Monday as the third day, is that when I go back to work, my brain goes, “Yup, it’s Monday!”, and then only once we get close to dinner time does my brain … Continue reading →

“Well, he must be too busy for a real post today, since he’s sharing something by Franz von Suppe!” And that, Dearest Reader, is where you’re wrong! Because even though I am posting something by Franz von Suppe, it is not because … Continue reading →

This is a kind of roundabout way to arrive at a work: a comic ballet called Pineapple Poll was created in the mid-20th century, using music from the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Later, the music from the ballet was itself … Continue reading →