make music part of your life series: Antonin Dvorak “Prague waltzes”

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Antonin Dvorak “Prague waltzes“

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Bacchus on make music part of your life series: Composer Joseph Horovitz – Blue Ridge – Societat “Unión Musical” de Crevillent

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Bacchus on Blue Ridge (Joseph Horovitz) – Societat “Unión Musical” de Crevillent

Bacchus on Blue Ridge (Joseph Horovitz) – Societat “Unión Musical” de Crevillent

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This article is about the British composer and conductor. For the American cultural historian, see Joseph Horowitz.

Joseph Horovitz (born 26 May 1926 in Vienna, Austria) is a British composer and conductor.

Biography

Horovitz’s Jewish family emigrated to England in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He studied music and modern languages at New College, Oxford, and later attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition with Gordon Jacob. He then undertook a year of further study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His musical career began in 1950, when he became music director at the Bristol Old Vic. He was subsequently active as a conductor of ballet and opera, and toured Europe and the United States.

Horovitz married Anna in 1956, shortly after coaching at the bi-centenary celebration for Mozart and Glyndeborne. They honeymooned in Majorca, staying in Paguera and visiting Valldemossa. He later used these two names for two clarinet pieces, based on Spanish folk-tunes he had heard there.

Horovitz has been Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music since 1961, and a Council Member of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain since 1970. Between 1969 and 1996 he belonged to the board of the Performing Rights Society. His works include 16 ballets, including Alice in Wonderland (1953), 2 one-act operas (The Dumb Wife, libretto Peter Shaffer; Gentlemen’s Island, libretto Gordon Snell), and concertos for violin, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, euphonium, tuba and percussion, as well as a popular and often performed jazz concerto for harpsichord or piano.

A large number of his works have been written for wind orchestra and brass band. In 1959, he was awarded the Commonwealth Medal, and since then he has received many other awards for his compositions. His music for television has included Lillie, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Search for the Nile, The Fight Against Slavery, Wessex Tales and Partners in Crime.

Works

Orchestral Works

• 1948 Concertante for Clarinet and Strings
• 1963 Trumpet Concerto
• 1971 Sinfonietta for Light Orchestra
• 1972 Horizon Overture
• 1973 Valse
• 1976 Bassoon Concerto
• 1977 Jubilee Toy Symphony
• 1993 Oboe Concerto

Works for Wind Orchestra and Brass Band

• 1964 Three Pieces From Music Hall Suite for brass band
• 1970 Sinfonietta for brass band
  • 1. Allegro
  • 2. Lento moderato
  • 3. Con brio
• 1972 Euphonium Concerto for euphonium and wind orchestra1975 The Dong with a Luminous Nose for brass band
  • 1. Moderato
  • 2. Lento
  • 3. Con moto
• 1977 Samson for baritone, mixed chorus and brass band
• 1983 Ballet for Band for brass band
• 1984 Bacchus on Blue Ridge: Divertimento for wind orchestra
  • 1. Moderato
  • 2. Blues
  • 3. Vivo
• 1985 Concertino Classico for 2 cornets (or trumpets) and brass band
  • 1. Con brio
  • 2. Larghetto
  • 3. Allegro rustico
• 1991 Fete Galante for wind orchestra
  • 1. Pavane
  • 2. Menuet
  • 3. Bourée des masques
• 1992 Dance SuiteAd Astra
  • 1. Allegro
  • 2. Andantino
  • 3. Vivace
• Commedia Dell’Arte
• Lillie Theme
• Theme and Co-Operation for brass band
• Tuba Concerto for tuba und brass bandWind-Harp
  • 1. Allegro
  • 2. Andante
  • 3. Con Moto

Film scores

• 1963 Tarzan’s Three Challenges

Other works

• 1952 Les Femmes d’Alger: Ballet in one act
• 1953 The Dumb Wife: Comic opera in one act
• 1953 Alice in Wonderland: Ballet in two acts
• 1958 Concerto for Dancers: Ballet in one act
• 1958 Gentleman’s Island (libretto by Gordon Snell) in English or German for tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra
• 1961 Horrortorio (words by Alistair Sampson from a scenario by Maurice Richardson) for soloists, chorus and orchestra. It was performed at the Hoffnung Astronautical Musical Festival
• 1962 Fantasia on a Theme of Couperin for wind nonet
• 1965 Let’s Make a Ballet: Ballet in one act
• 1970 Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo: Cantata (text by Michael Flanders) for mixed chorus with piano, double bass and percussion
• 1970 Lady Macbeth Scena for mezzo-soprano and piano
• 1975 Summer Sunday: a comical-tragical-ecological Pastoral for mixed choir and piano
• 1980 Miss Carter Wore Pink: Ballet in one act

Chamber Music

• 1964 Music Hall Suite for brass quintet1976 Brass Polka for brass quartet
  • 1. Soubrette Song
  • 2. Trick-cyclists
  • 3. Adagio-team
  • 4. Soft shoe shuffle
  • 5. Les Girls
• 1969 String Quartet No. 5
• Sonatina, op. 3 for oboe and piano
• Quartet for oboe and strings, op. 18
• Ghetto Song for solo guitar
• 1981 Sonatina For Clarinet and Piano
  • 1. Allegro calmato
  • 2. Lento quasi Andante
  • 3. Con brio

 

Life, poetic thought by George-B (my poetry collection ©ALWAYS)

Life, poetic thought by George-B

I’m strong in my weakness
I’m weak in my strength

I fear no change, I know what to expect
The closer the goals, the longer it takes and
The further it gets and yet
What’s to come, has come and passed,
In the past, like a turning wheel or
A turning page, one of many identical ones,
or
The wind prevailing from the South-West
Most of the time,
I know what’s to come,
From what has been passed…

my strength in my weakness,
my weakness in strength, and yet
still time to live with no regret,
knowing that giving was by far
the conquest

Ion Voicu – Felmake music part of your life series: Mendelssohn – Concerto In E minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 64

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Ion Voicu – Felix Mendelssohn – Concerto In E minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 64

 

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Prokofiev – Romeo & Juliet – Leningrad / Mravinsky

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Saint of the Day June 19, 2014: St. Romuald

Saint of the Day

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quotation: The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)

The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

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today’s holiday: Juneteenth

Juneteenth

Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, it wasn’t until two years later that the word reached the slaves in Texas. General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865 with the intention of forcing slave owners to release their slaves, and the day has been celebrated since that time in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and other parts of the Deep South under the nickname “Juneteenth.” Observed primarily in African-American communities, Juneteenth festivities usually include parades, picnics, and baseball games. More… Discuss

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José Rizal (1861)

Rizal was a Philippine nationalist, author, poet, and physician. While living in Europe, he published novels railing against the evils of Spanish rule in the Philippines, earning him the ire of officials there. Upon his return in 1892, Rizal was arrested as a revolutionary agitator. When an armed rebellion broke out four years later, Rizal, who had advocated reform but not revolution, was shot for sedition. His martyrdom fueled the revolution. What did he do on the eve of his execution? More… Discuss

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this day in the yesteryear: First Baseball Game Played with Modern Rules (1846)

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English: WWW’s “historical” logo, created by Robert Cailliau. Made of three W using the Optima Bold font, according to Cailliau himself. Español: Logo antiguo de WWW, creado por Robert Cailliau. Hecho con tres W’s usando la fuente Optima Bold, según el mismo Cailliau. Français : Logo historique du WWW, créé par Robert Cailliau. Constitué de 3 W utilisant la police Optima Bold, selon Cailliau lui-même. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the age of the Internet, everyone is a doctor, or at least, everyone thinks he is. With boundless information at our fingertips, self-diagnosis is now commonplace. But beware, as this can have dangerous consequences. Researchers found that the most viewed and “liked” YouTube videos about managing high blood pressure are often uninformative and sometimes even misleading. The presence of this sort of medical misinformation on the Web is certainly not isolated to this one condition, so people need to take care when trying to self-manage their health. More… Discuss

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