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BP Plc (BP/) Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley has endured many scrapes in Russia during the past decade.

In 2008, when he was CEO of TNK-BP, a joint venture between the British oil major and a group of Russian billionaires, Dudley faced a stream of lawsuits and tax probes: administrative bullying, Russian style. He couldn’t even get his work visa renewed.

In July of that year, he fled Moscow, saying in a bitter statement that he’d suffered “sustained harassment” by Russian authorities and his partners. He told the U.S. ambassador at the time that he thought then–Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin was behind the attacks, according to a U.S. embassy cable released by WikiLeaks.

Now, Dudley’s fate hinges on Sechin once again as he watches BP’s $16 billion Russia bet get mauled by plunging oil prices and Ukraine-related sanctions, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its February issue. BP is the biggest foreign investor in Russia through its 20 percent stake in OAO Rosneft (ROSN), the state-controlled oil giant led by Sechin.

The U.S. and the European Union have locked Rosneft out of capital markets in response to Russian intervention in Ukraine. Washington has gone a step further and blacklisted Sechin, banning him, for example, from traveling to the U.S. Dudley now sits on the board of Rosneft with a man the U.S. government has deemed a pariah.

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In the holy land, the continuing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has also shown increasing signs of turning into a religious dispute, with a row over holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem.

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SLEIGH RIDE John Williams & The Boston Pops (Live): Happy Christmas! (great compositions/performances) Learn more about Leroy Anderson here at euzicasa

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Leroy Anderson

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For other people named Leroy Anderson, see Leroy Anderson (disambiguation).

Leroy Anderson
Leroy Anderson on the CD cover of The Best of Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride
Born	June 29, 1908 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died	May 18, 1975 (aged 66) Woodbury, Connecticut
Alma mater	Harvard University (B.A., 1929; M.A., Music, 1930)
Occupation	Composer

Leroy Anderson (/ləˈrɔɪ/ ~ lə-ROY); (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as “one of the great American masters of light orchestral music.”^[1]

Early life

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Swedish parents, Anderson was given his first piano lessons by his mother, who was a church organist. He continued studying piano at the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1925 Anderson entered Harvard University, where he studied musical harmony with Walter Spalding, counterpoint with Edward Ballantine, canon and fugue with William C. Heilman, orchestration with Edward B. Hill and Walter Piston, composition with Walter Piston and double bass with Gaston Dufresne. He also studied organ with Henry Gideon. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum laude in 1929 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.^[2] In Harvard University Graduate School, he studied composition with Walter Piston and Georges Enescu and received a Master of Arts in Music in 1930.^[3]

Career

Anderson continued studying at Harvard, working towards a PhD in German and Scandinavian languages; Anderson spoke English and Swedish during his youth and eventually became fluent in Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

At the time he was working as organist and choir director at the East Milton Congregational Church, leading the Harvard University Band, and conducting and arranging for dance bands around Boston. In 1936 his arrangements came to the attention of Arthur Fiedler, who asked to see any original compositions.^[4] Anderson’s first work was the 1938 Jazz Pizzicato, but at just over ninety seconds the piece was too short for a three-minute 78-RPM single of the period.^[5] Fiedler suggested writing a companion piece and Anderson wrote Jazz Legato later that same year. The combined recording went on to become one of Anderson’s signature compositions.^[6]

In 1942 Leroy Anderson joined the U.S. Army, and was assigned in Iceland with the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps as a translator and interpreter;^[7] in 1945 he was reassigned to the Pentagon as Chief of the Scandinavian Desk of Military Intelligence. However his duties did not prevent him from composing, and in 1945 he wrote “The Syncopated Clock“^[8] and “Promenade.” Anderson became a reserve officer and was recalled to active duty for the Korean War. In 1951 Anderson wrote his first hit, “Blue Tango,” earning a Golden Disc and the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts.

His pieces and his recordings during the fifties conducting a studio orchestra were immense commercial successes. “Blue Tango” was the first instrumental recording ever to sell one million copies. His most famous pieces are probably “Sleigh Ride” and “The Syncopated Clock.” In 1950, WCBS-TV in New York City selected “Syncopated Clock” as the theme song for The Late Show, the WCBS late-night movie. Mitchell Parish added words to “Syncopated Clock”, and later wrote lyrics for other Anderson tunes, including “Sleigh Ride”, which was not written as a Christmas piece, but as a work that describes a winter event. Anderson started the work during a heat wave in August 1946. The Boston Pops’ recording of it was the first pure orchestral piece to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Music chart.^[9] From 1952 to 1961, Anderson’s composition “Plink, Plank, Plunk!” was used as the theme for the CBS panel show I’ve Got A Secret.

Anderson’s musical style employs creative instrumental effects and occasionally makes use of sound-generating items such as typewriters and sandpaper. (Krzysztof Penderecki also used a typewriter in his orchestral work “Fluorescences” (1961–62), but with a decidedly less humorous effect.)

Anderson wrote his Piano Concerto in C in 1953 but withdrew it, feeling that it had weak spots. In 1988 the Anderson family decided to publish the work. Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra released the first recording of this work; four other recordings, including one for piano and organ, have since been released.

In 1958, Anderson composed the music for the Broadway show Goldilocks with orchestrations by Philip J. Lang. Even though it earned two Tony awards, Goldilocks did not achieve commercial success. Anderson never wrote another musical, preferring instead to continue writing orchestral miniatures. His pieces, including “The Typewriter,” “Bugler’s Holiday,” and “A Trumpeter’s Lullaby” are performed by orchestras and bands ranging from school groups to professional organizations.

Anderson would occasionally appear on the Boston Pops regular concerts on PBS to conduct his own music while Fiedler would sit on the sidelines. For “The Typewriter” Fiedler would don a green eyeshade, roll up his sleeves, and mime working on an old typewriter while the orchestra played.

Anderson was initiated as an honorary member of the Gamma Omicron chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at Indiana State University in 1969.

Death

In 1975, Anderson died of cancer in Woodbury, Connecticut^[10][11] and was buried there.^[12]

In popular culture

For his contribution to the recording industry, Leroy Anderson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1620 Vine Street. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and his music continues to be a staple of “pops” orchestra repertoire. In 1995 the new headquarters of the Harvard University Band was named the Anderson Band Center in honor of Leroy Anderson.^[13] The Leroy Anderson House in Woodbury, Connecticut has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[14]

In 2006, one of his piano works, “Forgotten Dreams”, written in 1954, became the background for a British TV advertisement for mobile phone company ‘3’. Previously, Los Angeles station KABC-TV used the song as its sign-off theme at the end of broadcast days in the 1980s, and Mantovani‘s recording of the song had been the closing theme for WABC-TV‘s Eyewitness News for much of the 1970s.

The Typewriter was used as the theme song for Esto no tiene nombre, a Puerto Rican television comedy program – loosely based on the US television series Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In – produced by Tommy Muñiz between the late 1960s and late 1970s. It is also the signature tune for the BBC Radio 4 series, The News Quiz which has been running since 1977.

“Forgotten Dreams” was used as a recurring theme in the French film Populaire (2012).

Works

• Alma Mater (1954)
  1. Chapel Bells
  2. Freshman on Main Street
  3. Library Reading Room
  4. Class Reunion
• Arietta (1962)
• Balladette (1962)
• Belle of the Ball (1951)
• Birthday Party (1970)
• Blue Tango (1951)
• Bugler’s Holiday (1954)
• Cambridge Centennial March of Industry (1946) (written for organ)
• Captains and the Kings, The (1962)
• Chatterbox (1966)
• Chicken Reel (1946)
• China Doll (1951)
• Christmas Festival, A (1950) (original version was 9:00, later shortened in 1952 to 5:45)
• Clarinet Candy (1962)
• Classical Jukebox (1950)
• Concerto in C Major for Piano and Orchestra (1953) (withdrawn by the composer, and released posthumously)
• Cowboy and His Horse, The (1966)
• Do You Think That Love Is Here To Stay? (1935)
• Easter Song (194-) (written for organ)
• Fiddle-Faddle (1947)
• First Day of Spring, The (1954)
• Forgotten Dreams (1954)
• Girl in Satin, The (1953)
• Golden Years, The (1962)
• Goldilocks (musical) (1958) (some numbers in the Suite did not appear in the original musical, and some numbers from the musical are not in this Suite)
  1. Overture (1958)
  2. Come to Me (1958)
  3. Guess Who (1958)
  4. Heart of Stone (Pyramid Dance) (1958)
  5. He’ll Never Stray (1958)
  6. Hello (1958)
  7. If I Can’t Take it With Me (1958)
  8. I Never Know When to Say When (1958)
  9. Lady in Waiting (1958)
  10. Lazy Moon (1958)
  11. Little Girls (1958)
  12. My Last Spring (1958)
  13. Save a Kiss (1958)
  14. Shall I Take My Heart and Go? (1958)
  15. Tag-a-long Kid (1958)
  16. The Pussy Foot (1958)
  17. Town House Maxixe (1958)
  18. Who’s Been Sitting in My Chair ? (1958)
• Governor Bradford March (1948) (published posthumously)
• Harvard Fantasy (1936)
• Harvard Festival, A (1969)
• Hens and Chickens (1966)
• Home Stretch (1962)
• Horse and Buggy (1951)
• Irish Suite (1947 & 1949)
  1. The Irish Washerwoman (1947)
  2. The Minstrel Boy (1947)
  3. The Rakes of Mallow (1947)
  4. The Wearing of the Green (1949)
  5. The Last Rose of Summer (1947)
  6. The Girl I Left Behind Me (1949)
• Jazz Legato (1938)
• Jazz Pizzicato (1938)
• Love May Come and Love May Go (1935)
• Lullaby of the Drums (1970) (published posthumously)
• March of the Two Left Feet (1970)
• Melody on Two Notes (~1965)
• Mother’s Whistler (1940) (published posthumously)
• Music in My Heart, The (1935)
• Old Fashioned Song, An (196-)
• Penny Whistle Song, The (1951)
• Phantom Regiment, The (1951)
• Piece for Rolf (1961)
• Pirate Dance (1962) (optional SATB chorus)
• Plink, Plank, Plunk! (1951)
• Promenade (1945)
• Pussy Foot Ballet Music, The (1962)
• Sandpaper Ballet (1954)
• Saraband (1948)
• Scottish Suite (1954)
  1. The Bluebells of Scotland
  2. Turn Ye To Me
• Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard March (1973)
• Serenata (1947)
• Sleigh Ride (1948)
• Song of Jupiter (1951)
• Song of the Bells (1953)
• Suite of Carols for Brass (1955) (seven carols)
• Suite of Carols for Strings (1955) (six carols)
• Suite of Carols for Woodwinds (1955) (six carols)
• Summer Skies (1953)
• Syncopated Clock, The (1945)
• Ticonderoga March (1939) (Anderson’s only work written for concert band)
• To a Wild Rose (1970) (arranged from the song by Edward MacDowell) (published posthumously)
• Trumpeter’s Lullaby, A (1949)
• Typewriter, The (1950)
• Waltz Around the Scale (1970)
• Waltzing Cat, The (1950)
• Wedding March for Jane and Peter (1972)
• What’s the Use of Love? (1935)
• Whistling Kettle, The (~1965)
• Woodbury Fanfare (1959) (for four trumpets)
• You Can Always Tell a Harvard Man (1962)

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Carondelet Caprice
Barbara Harbach, composer
University of Missouri-St. Louis
bharbach@umsl.edu
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Gounod Charles “Petite Symphonie”
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Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3,: great compositions/performances

Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3

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Ottorino Respighi (1879 – 1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances / Antiche arie e danze per liuto
Suite No. 3 (1932)

I. Italiana (0:00)
II. Arie di corte (1:55)
III. Siciliana (8:39)
IV. Passacaglia (12:18)

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Joaquin Rodrigo – Concierto Para Una Fiesta (Full Concerto)

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From 1982, played by Pepe Romero.

Joaquín Rodrigo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Monument in Rosario, Argentina
Born	November 22, 1901 Sagunto, Valencia, Spain
Died	July 6, 1999 (aged 97) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Spouse(s)	Victoria Kamhi

Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez (Spanish: [xoaˈkin roˈðɾiɣo]; November 22, 1901 – July 6, 1999), commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist.

Rodrigo’s music is among the most popular music of the twentieth century. In particular, his Concierto de Aranjuez is considered one of the pinnacles of the Spanish music and of the guitar concerto repertoire.

Life

He was born in Sagunto, Valencia, and almost completely lost his sight at the age of three after contracting diphtheria. He began to study solfège, piano and violin at the age of eight; harmony and composition from the age of sixteen. Although distinguished by having raised the Spanish guitar to dignity as a universal concert instrument and best known for his guitar music, he never mastered the instrument himself. He wrote his compositions in Braille, which was transcribed for publication.

Rodrigo studied music under Francisco Antich in Valencia and under Paul Dukas at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. After briefly returning to Spain, he went to Paris again to study musicology, first under Maurice Emmanuel and then under André Pirro. His first published compositions^[1] date from 1940. In 1943 he received Spain’s National Prize for Orchestra for Cinco piezas infantiles (“Five Children’s Pieces”), based on his earlier composition of the same piece for two pianos, premiered by Ricardo Viñes. From 1947 Rodrigo was a professor of music history, holding the Manuel de Falla Chair of Music in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, at Complutense University of Madrid. Notable students include Yüksel Koptagel, Turkish composer and pianist.

His most famous work, Concierto de Aranjuez, was composed in 1939 in Paris for the guitarist Regino Sainz de la Maza. In later life he and his wife declared that it was written as a response to the miscarriage of their first child.^[2] It is a concerto for guitar and orchestra. The central adagio movement is one of the most recognizable in 20th-century classical music, featuring the interplay of guitar with cor anglais. This movement was later adapted by the jazz arranger Gil Evans for Miles Davis‘ 1960 album ‘Sketches of Spain‘. The Concerto was adapted by the composer himself for Harp and Orchestra at the request of Nicanor Zabaleta and dedicated to Zabaleta.

The success of this concerto led to commissions from a number of prominent soloists, including Nicanor Zabaleta, for whom Rodrigo dedicated his Concierto serenata for Harp and Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber, for whom Rodrigo composed his Concierto como un divertimento for cello and orchestra, and James Galway, for whom Rodrigo composed his Concierto pastoral for flute and orchestra. In 1954 Rodrigo composed Fantasía para un gentilhombre at the request of Andrés Segovia. His Concierto Andaluz, for four guitars and orchestra, was commissioned by Celedonio Romero for himself and his three sons.

 

Monument in Aranjuez, Spain

None of Rodrigo’s works, however, achieved the popular and critical success of the Concierto de Aranjuez and the Fantasia para un gentilhombre. These two works are very often paired in recordings.

He was awarded Spain’s highest award for composition, the Premio Nacional de Música, in 1983. On 30 December 1991, Rodrigo was raised into the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos I with the hereditary title of Marqués de los Jardines de Aranjuez^[3][4] (English: Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez). He received the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award—Spain’s highest civilian honor—in 1996. He was named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 1998.

He married Victoria Kamhi, a Turkish-born pianist whom he had met in Paris, on 19 January 1933, in Valencia. Their daughter, Cecilia, was born on January 27, 1941. Rodrigo died in 1999 in Madrid at the age of 97, and his daughter succeeded him as Marquésa de los Jardines de Aranjuez. Joaquín Rodrigo and his wife Victoria are buried at the cemetery at Aranjuez.

Works

Orchestral

• Orchestra
  • Cinco Piezas Infantiles (1928)
  • Tres viejos aires de danza (1929; first performance, Jan. 20, 1930, by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Valencia conducted by José Manuel Izquierdo)
  • Dos miniaturas andaluzas (1929; first performance, Nov. 22, 1999, at the Palau de la Música de Valencia, Spain, by the Orquesta de Cámara Joaquín Rodrigo)
  • Zarabande lejana y Villancico (1930; first performance, March 9, 1931, at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, by the Orquesta Femenina de París, conducted by Jane Evrard)
  • Per la flor del Lliri Blau, symphonic poem (1934; First Prize, Círculo de Bellas Artes)
  • Soleriana (first performance by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Hans von Benda, on August 22, 1953 in Berlin)
  • Pavana Real (1955)
  • Música para un jardín (1957) [Orchestration of his two piano Berceuses]
  • A la busca del más allá (1976; commissioned by the Houston Symphony for the United States Bicentennial, Rodrigo was inspired by the thought of space exploration)
  • Palillos y panderetas (1982)
• Rondalla
  • Estudiantina (1962)
• Symphonic Wind Ensemble
  • Homenaje a la Tempranica (1939; first performance, 1939, in Paris by the Orquesta Femenina de París, conducted by Jane Evrard)
  • Homenaje a Sagunto (1955)
  • Adagio Para Orquesta de Instrumentos de Viento (1966; first performance in June 1966, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Austin Boudreau)
  • Pasodoble para Paco Alcalde (1975)

Concertante

• Cello
  • Dos piezas caballerescas for four-piece cello orchestra (1945; first performance, May 27, 1945, in Madrid by cello ensemble students of Juan Ruiz Casaux) – later transcribed for four guitars by Peter Jermer
  • Concierto en modo galante (1949; first performance, Nov. 4, 1949, in Madrid by Gaspar Cassadó, with the Orquesta Nacional de España, conducted by Ataulfo Argenta)
  • Concierto como un divertimento (1981)

• Flute
  • Aria antigua (1960)
  • Concierto pastoral (1978)

• Guitar
  • Concierto de Aranjuez (1939)
  • Fantasía para un gentilhombre (1954)
  • Concierto madrigal for two guitars (1966; commissioned by Alexandre Lagoya and Ida Presti; first performance, July 30, 1967, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA, by Angel Romero and Pepe Romero, with the Los Angeles Symphony conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos)
  • Concierto Andaluz for four guitars (1967)
  • Concierto para una fiesta (1982; first performance, March 5, 1983, at the Ridglea Country Club in Fort Worth, TX, by Pepe Romero, with the Texas Little Symphony conducted by John Giordano)
  • Rincones de España (1990; first performance by Angel Romero on March 7, 1991, at New York’s Lincoln Center)

• Harp
  • Concierto serenata (1954)
  • Sones en la Giralda (1963; written as a wedding present for the harpist Marisa Robles) – later transcribed for guitar and orchestra by Pepe Romero

• Piano
  • Juglares (1923); first public performance: 1924, Valencia
  • Concierto heroico (1943)

• Violin
  • Dos esbozos for violin and piano (1923; Rodrigo’s “Opus 1”)
  • Cançoneta for violin and string orchestra (1923; first performance in 1923 in Valencia, Spain, by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Valencia, conducted by José Manuel Izquierdo)
  • Concierto de estío (1944; first performance, April 16, 1944, by Enrique Iniesta, at the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon, Portugal, with the Orquesta Nacional de España, conducted by Bartolomé Pérez Casas)
  • Set Cançons Valencianes for violin and piano (1982)

Instrumental

• Bandoneón
  • Motu perpetuo (1960)

• Cello
  • Como una fantasía (1979; first performance, March 17, 1981, by Carlos Prieto, in Mexico City)

• Guitar
  • Zarabanda lejana (1926; first performance by Joaquín Nin-Culmell, in Paris)
  • Toccata para guitarra (1933; first performance, June 1, 2006, by Marcin Dylla, in Madrid)
  • En Los Trigales (1938; first performance by Regino Sainz de la Maza; later published as part of Por los campos de España)
  • Tiento Antiguo (1942; first performance, 1942, by Regino Sainz de la Maza)
  • Three Spanish Pieces – Tres Piezas Españolas (Fandango, Passacaglia, Zapateado) (1954; dedicated to Andrés Segovia)
  • Bajando de la meseta (1954; first performance by Nicolás Alfonso in Brussels; later published as part of Por los campos de España)
  • Entre olivares (1956; dedicated to Manuel López Ramos; later published as part of Por los campos de España)
  • En tierras de Jerez (1957; dedicated to Luise Walker)
  • Tonadilla (1959; first performance by the guitar duo of Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya)
  • Junto al Generalife (1959; first performance by Siegfrid Behrend)
  • Sonata Giocosa (1960; dedicated to Renata Tarragó)
  • Invocación y danza (1961; first performance, May 12, 1962, by Alirio Díaz, at the Château de la Brède near Bordeaux, France—First prize, Coupe International de Guitare, awarded by Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française [ORTF])
  • Sonata a la Española (1963; dedicated to Ernesto Bitetti)
  • Tres pequeñas piezas (Ya se van los pastores, Por caminos de Santiago, Pequeña Sevillana) (1963)
  • Elogio de la guitarra (1971; written for the guitarist Angelo Gilardino, who gave the first performance)
  • Pajaros de primavera (1972; commissioned by Dr. Isao Takahashi, a promotor of classical guitar in Japan, for his wife Take Takahashi; first performed in 1972 at the hospital bedside of Take Takahashi in Japan, “interpreted by a guitarist friend,” as she was dying of cancer^[5]—Christopher Parkening gave the first public performance, also in Japan)
  • Dos preludios (1976; first performance, 1989, by Celedonio Romero, in Los Angeles, CA, and first recording by Wolfgang Lendle)
  • Tríptico (1978; first performance, 1978, by Alexandre Lagoya, at the Château de Rougerie in France)
  • Un tiempo fue Itálica famosa (1981; first performance, 1989, by Randy Pile in San Diego, CA)
  • Ecos de Sefarad (1987; first performance, 1989, by Sherri Rottersman, at the Círculo Medina in Madrid)
  • ¡Qué buen caminito! (1987; first performance, 1987, by Mariá Esther Guzmán, at the Conservatorio de Música de Sevilla)

• Harp
  • Impromptu (1959; first performance by Ana María Martini Gil)

• Piano
  • Suite pour piano (1923)
  • Berceuse d’automne (1923)
  • Cinco Piezas Infantiles (Son chicos que pasan, Después de un cuento, Mazurka, Plegaria, Gritería) (1924)
  • Preludio al Gallo mañanero (1926)
  • Zarabande lejana (1926)
  • Pastorale (1926)
  • Bagatela (1926)
  • Berceuse de printemps (1928)
  • Air de Ballet sur le nom d’une Jeune Fille (1930)
  • Serenata Española (1931)
  • Sonada de adiós (‘Homenaje a Paul Dukas’) (1935)
  • Cuatro Piezas (Caleseras, Fandango del ventorrillo, Prayer of the Princess of Castile, Danza Valenciana) (1936-1938)
  • Tres Danzas de España (Rústica, Danza de los tres doncellas, Serrana) (1941)
  • Gran Marcha de los Subsecretarios (1941)
  • A l’ombre de Torre Bermeja (1945)
  • Cuatro Estampas Andaluzas (1946-1952)
  • El Album de Cecilia (María de los Reyes, Jota de las Palomas, Canción del Hada rubia, Canción del Hada morena, El negrito Pepo, Borriquillos a Belén) (1948)
  • Cinco Sonatas de Castilla, con Toccata a modo de Pregón (1950-1951)
  • Danza de la Amapola (1972)
  • Atardecer (1975)
  • Sonatina para dos Muñecas (1977)
  • Tres Evocaciones (Tarde en el parque, Noche en el Guadalquivir, Triana) (1980-1981)
  • Preludio de Añoranza (1987)

• Violin
  • Capriccio (1944; first performance, Jan. 8, 1946, by Enrique Iniesta, in Madrid)

Vocal/choral

• Ave Maria for unaccompanied choir (1923)
• Ausencias de Dulcinea (1948); First prize, Cervantes Competition
• Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios (1948)
• De las doce canciones españolas (Textos populares adaptados por Victoria Kamhi) (1951)
• Villancicos y canciones de navidad (1952); Ateneo de Madrid Prize
• Cuatro canciones sephardies (1965)
• El Hijo Fingido, Zarzuela
• Porque toco el pandero
• Cántico de San Francisco de Asís (1982)
• Tres canciones^[6]

Guitar and voice

• Coplas del Pastor Enamorado (1935)
• Tres Canciones Españolas (1951)
• Tres Villancicos (1952)
• Romance de Durante (1955)
• Folías Canarias (1958)
• Aranjuez, ma pensée (1988)

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Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier – Waltz Sequence No. 1

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Uploaded on Jun 1, 2011/24,030 views

Der Rosenkavalier, with a libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, was completed in 1910 and staged in Dresden the following year. The drama centres on the Marschallin and her unselfish renunciation of her young lover Oktavian in a work that seems filled with bitter-sweet nostalgia, a feeling that is perceptible in the two waltz sequence from the opera that Strauss arranged in 1944, to which he added further thematic development.

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The Kalka-Shimla Railway

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Uploaded on Aug 15, 2011/272,431 views

Shimla was once the summer capital of Raj. They left behind a divided India – and a railway. Today, the Station Master at Shimla is waiting for a promotion, his boss is waiting for a transfer – and everybody is waiting for snow.

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The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

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It is so close to the people that it flows like a river through their lives. But the new generation of Ghurkas, tor between family duties and personal ambitions, discover that the old steam railway maybe the only constant in their lives.

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Felix Mendelssohn – Octet

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Published on Jun 17, 2013/78,528 views

– Composer: Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 — 4 November 1847)
– Performers: Jascha Heifetz (Violin), Arnold Belnick (Violin), Israel Baker (Violin), Joseph Stepansky (Violin), Gabor Rejto (Cello), Virginia Majewski (Viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (Cello), William Primrose (Viola)
– Year of recording: 1964

Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 was composed in the autumn of 1825 (completed on 15 October), when the composer was 16. He wrote it as a birthday gift for his friend and violin teacher Eduard Rietz (born 17 October 1802); it was slightly revised in 1832 before the first public performance on 30 January 1836 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Conrad Wilson summarizes much of its reception ever since: “Its youthful verve, brilliance and perfection make it one of the miracles of nineteenth-century music.” It was followed in 1826 by the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The work comprises four movements:
00:00 – I. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
12:48 – II. Andante
18:23 – III. Scherzo
22:41 – IV. Presto

A typical performance of the work lasts around 28-30 minutes, with the first movement usually comprising roughly half of this.

The scherzo, later scored for orchestra as a replacement for the minuet in the composer’s First Symphony at its premiere, is believed to have been inspired by a section of Goethe’s Faust entitled “Walpurgis Night’s Dream.” Fragments of this movement recur in the finale, as a precursor to the “cyclic” technique employed by later 19th-century composers. The entire work is also notable for its extended use of counterpoint, with the finale, in particular, beginning with an eight-part fugato.

The original score is for a double string quartet with 4 violins and pairs of violas and cellos. Mendelssohn instructed in the public score, “This Octet must be played by all the instruments in symphonic orchestral style. Pianos and fortes must be strictly observed and more strongly emphasized than is usual in pieces of this character.”

The work has been compared to Louis Spohr’s 1823 Double Quartet No.1, Op. 65 in D minor.

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Great Movie Themes 5: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Flying Theme) by John Williams

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Uploaded on May 20, 2010/56,176 views

The best score written by John Williams, this also contains the best theme written by him. Such is the power of the theme that it is actually played in full only twice during the entire film, yet is instantly unforgettable and reserves a place in our hearts for all time.

A very deserved Oscar win for a great score for a very great film

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