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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Lukas Foss, Time Cycle

"TIME CYCLE" (1960) by Lukas Foss (1922-2009)
IV. O Mensch gib Acht (Friedrich Nietzsche)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeneVQEa3yE

Daniel Beliavsky plays "For Lenny" by Lukas Foss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWCuQp1_8_I

Lukas Foss, "Studies in Improvisation," Variations on a Theme in Unison
The Improvisation Chamber Ensemble (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRXBoyU1_8c

Lukas Foss, "Studies in Improvisation," Encore II (Air Antique)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDZclxJMgKg

Lukas Foss, "Studies in Improvisation," Encore III (Circus Piece)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZUR_jIgds

W. A. Mozart 12 duets for french horn No. 1: Allegro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxnqohtJ1fg

W. A. Mozart 12 duets for french horn No. 2: Menuetto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YPwglrMH5A

W. A. Mozart 12 duets for french horn No. 3: Andante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7pkBklSBqs

W. A. Mozart 12 duets for french horn No. 4: Polonaise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwtR0vwVESw

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Reynaldo Hahn, Piano Quintet in f# minor

Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947)
Piano Quintet in f# minor

Published by Edition Silver Trust with several sound bites -
http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/hahn-piano-quintet.htm

Hyperion Recordings performance by Stephen Coombs and the Chilingirian Quartet -
http://www.amazon.com/Hahn-Vierne-Quintets-Stephen-Coombs/dp/B00005QIT5

Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) today is primarily remembered as a composer of the operetta Ciboulette, but he did devote a fair amount attention to composing chamber music. Born in Venezuela, Hahn’s family moved to Paris when he was three. He studied at the Conservatory under Massenet who considered him a genius. Handsome and worldly, Hahn drew his friends from a much wider circle than other musicians, for example Marcel Proust and Sarah Bernhardt, and was greatly interested in the literary scene as well as the theater. Having a gifted voice and being an excellent pianist, Hahn needed no assistant for vocal concert evening. He was also a deft conductor who eventually directed the Paris Opera.

His Piano Quintet in f# minor dates from 1921. The big and highly dramatic opening movement of the three movement Quintet, Molto agiatato e con fuoco is, in a word, brilliant. How could music this attractive and exciting land in oblivion? In the moody, pensive and beautiful Andante non troppo lento, the merest whiff of Faure can occasionally be heard. Toward the end, a lovely vocal melody, briefly, like the sun pushing through heavy clouds, lightens the mood. The thematic material of finale, Allegretto grazioso is elegant and genteel and has an almost neo-rococo feel to it. The middle has a slighly more buoyant rondo and the coda slowly builds momentum to a very satisfying conclusion.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Béla Bartok - Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Went looking for this - which is what I expected

• I Musici de Montreal - Yuli Turovsky -

Béla Bartok - Music for strings, percussion and celesta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0W5gRl31E

… found this …

• Scene 3 of the Richland High School percussion concert: The Unique

Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste - Bartok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dLWhd2k8Ro

… and then THIS !!! …

• Show that changed DCI forever Meditation from Medea Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste Second Meditation Dance from Medea

Star of Indiana 1993 Music of Barber and Bartok Medea Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRyznF7JTw

Star of Indiana 1993 Music of Barber and Bartok Medea Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scrCrNiHHIg

• This is … the Star of Indiana 1993 show "Music of Barber and Bartok" with an overlay of the percussion judge's tape. Unfortunately I do not have a copy of the video in digital for...

Star of Indiana 1993 Finals Video with Percussion Judge's Tape Audio - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vvT-L0Z0bQ

Star of Indiana 1993 Finals Video with Percussion Judge's Tape Audio - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rigP5sY9mdc

• And some rehearsal footage … to show how it was put together

1993 Star of Indiana Brassline (Rehearsal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrZuZC0Cz9A

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• 2009 RHS Percussion Concert: Asylum, more details coming soon …

Prelude No.1 (4 mallet marimba solo performed by Timmy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEwt-hygPUg

Extraordinary Machine ~ Fiona Apple (Performed by RHS Percussion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvLE51F1LEQ

Blackbird ~ Beatles, as performed by Bobby McFerrin
(performed by Richland Percussion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRtc-tt_5L8

Béla Bartok (1881-1945) - Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band

Welcome to the Bonzo Dog Band. Meet the members:

Legs Larry Smith on drums,
Sam Spoons on rhythm pole,
Vern Dudley Bernhey No on bass guitar,
and Niel Innes, piano
Comley Rodney Slater, saxaphone ...
...
Charles deGaul on acordian,

...

Intro and Outro- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bxv_HLwT7U

Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band - 'The Intro And The Outro' - 45rpm 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUEAG5eO6c

and slightly related ...

Flying Lizards - "And Then He Kissed Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcyG98X86Pc

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Lost Tokyo - Lost in a Moment - Lost Forever

Grrr.

Last spring there were two especially nice impressionistic videos of Tokyo on YouTube ...

Lost in a Moment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySrsZuD4w0c

An impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean. They were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst they were in Tokyo. Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey.

The music is 'lost in a moment' by 'shrift' from the album of the same name.
http://myspace.com/shriftspace

and

Entering Tokyo AT Night from Narita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0MX3qOduQw

Alas, the copyright cops have gotten to the second one ... YouTube reports

This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

The video content was totally original; the soundtrack was appropriately ambient; but when YouTube pulled the video, they yanked reference to everything ... the poster information, the notes, the video, etc. And and they provide no public documentation of the complaint, the complainer, etc ...

Slowly, the same fate is closing in on the recording industry as a whole.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Pavane

-- two nice hits -- piano roll versions by the composers; some of the comments are interesting ... some are interestingly off base :)

Fauré plays Fauré Pavane, op 50 (4:24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsGh2xYYQg

Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50 - Paintings By "CLAUDE MONET" (7:04)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgyTl8yqbw

"Pavane pour une infante défunte"

Maurice Ravel - Pavane for Dead Princess (6:38)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkeDqJBlK8
Painting - Lake George, 1889 Artist - John Frederick Kensett (1816--1872)

Maurice Ravel plays Pavane for a Dead Princess (6:15)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RJielEoTgY&feature=related

Puhan Wang Plays Ravel - Pavane pour une infante defunte (6:10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocyCWh1rBw

Viktoriya Yermolyeva performs "Pavane" Ravel (5:39)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqEPfOwvUg

Sviatoslav Richter plays Ravel "Pavane" (7:04)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFwt66Vr6U

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