Igloos An igloo, which means “house” in the Inuit language, is a traditional, dome-shaped Eskimo dwelling with a low tunnel entrance constructed of blocks of snow placed in an ascending spiral. Although igloos are commonly associated with the Inuit, they were predominantly constructed by people of Canada’s Central Arctic and Greenland’s Thule area. What is a kudlik, and how did it help strengthen the structural integrity of igloos? More… Discuss

Igloos

An igloo, which means “house” in the Inuit language, is a traditional, dome-shaped Eskimo dwelling with a low tunnel entrance constructed of blocks of snow placed in an ascending spiral. Although igloos are commonly associated with the Inuit, they were predominantly constructed by people of Canada’s Central Arctic and Greenland’s Thule area. What is a kudlik, and how did it help strengthen the structural integrity of igloos? More… Discuss

today’s holiday: Denmark Constitution Day

Denmark Constitution Day

This public holiday commemorates the constitution signed on June 5, 1849, that made Denmark a constitutional monarchy, and the one signed on June 5, 1953, that created parliamentary reforms. A parade takes place in Copenhagen, and other festivities are held in villages throughout Denmark. More… Discuss

Today’s Birthdays in Music Wednesday, June 3rd 2015

Today’s Birthdays in Music

Birthdays in Music for Wednesday 3rd June 2015

Birthdays 1 – 57 of 57

1657 – Manuel de Egues, composer

1660 – Johannes Schenck, Dutch born composer, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Baptism date)

1738 – Johann Christoph Oley, composer

1746 – James Hook, composer

1750 – Frederic Thieme, composer

1773 – Michael Gottard Fischer, composer

1801 – Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer

1819 – Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer

1828 – Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer

1828 – Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer

1829 – Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer

1832 – Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer

1841 – Eduardo Caudella, composer

1844 – Emile Paladilhe, composer

1867 – Bela Anton Szabados, composer

1868 – Lvar Henning Mankell, composer

1887 – Emil Axman, composer

1888 – Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)

1897 – Memphis Minnie, rocker

1904 – Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], tenor (NY Met Opera), born in NYC, New York

1906 – Josephine Baker, American dancer/Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere) in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1975)

1907 – Antonio Emmanvilovich Spadavecchia, composer

1922 – Ivan Patachich, composer

1924 – Jimmy Rogers, Ruleville, Mississippi, Blues musician (Muddy Waters’ Band), (d. 1997)

1926 – Carlos Veerhoff, composer

1926 – Janez Maticic, composer

1927 – Boots Randolph, Paducah KY, saxophonist (Yakety Sax)

1930 – Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)

1931 – Francoise Arnoul, actress/composer (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise)

1932 – Dakota Staton, [Rabia Aliyah], US jazz singer (In the Night)

1935 – Ted Curson [Theodore], Jazz Trumpeter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)

1939 – David Frederick Stock, composer

1942 – Anita Harris, singer/actress (Follow that Camel)

1942 – Curtis Mayfield, rock vocalist (Freddie’s Dead, Superfly), born in Chicago, Illinois

1943 – Mike Dennis, rocker (Dovells)

1944 – Michael Clarke, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!), born in NYC, New York

1946 – Eddie Holman, rocker

1946 – Ian Hunter, England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)

1947 – Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)

1949 – Stephen Ruppenthal, composer

1950 – Suzi Quatro[cchio], singer (Stumblin’)/actress (Happy Days), born in Detroit, Michigan

1951 – Deniece Williams, [Chandler], IN, singer (Love Wouldn’t Let Me Wait)

1954 – Dan Hill, rocker (Sometimes When We Touch)

1956 – Danny Wilde, rocker (Rembrandts)

1964 – Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)

1964 – Doro Pesch, German singer

1965 – Mike Gordon, American musician

1965 – Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor

1968 – Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer

1969 – Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician

1970 – Esther Hart, Dutch singer

1970 – Julie Masse, French Canadian singer

1970 – Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer

Singer Kelly Jones (1974)

1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)

1976 – Yuri Ruley, American drummer

1978 – Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and song-writer

1987 – Lalaine, American actress and singer

today’s holiday: Dutch Liberation Day

Dutch Liberation Day

Liberation Day, or National Day, in the Netherlands celebrates May 5, 1945, the day on which the Nazi forces were driven out of Holland by the Allies. Although the Dutch had succeeded in remaining neutral during World War I, the country was invaded by the Nazis in May 1940 and rapidly overrun. The liberation of Holland in 1945 was an important step toward the subsequent defeat of the Nazis. Many Dutch cities hold special concerts on this day. Special commemorations are held in Amsterdam and around the country on May 5 each year, as well as on May 4, Remembrance Day. More… Discuss

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best classical music , T. G. Albinoni: Op. 9 n. 8 / Concerto for oboe, strings & b.c. in G minor / Alma Musica Amsterdam, great compositions/performances

T. G. Albinoni: Op. 9 n. 8 / Concerto for oboe, strings & b.c. in G minor / Alma Musica Amsterdam

John Portman

Uploaded on Jan 15, 2011

TOMASO GIOVANNI ALBINONI [1671-1751]

12 CONCERTI A CINQUE: Op. 9 n. 8
(Amsterdam, 1722)

Tomaso Albinoni (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

dedicated to: Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony

Concerto for solo oboe, strings and basso continuo in G minor

I. Allegro – 0:05
II. Adagio – 4:30
III. Allegro – 6:53

Han de Vries (G. Crone senior, Leipzig 1735 c. oboe)
Bob van Asperen (R. Schuetze, Heidelberg, 1969 after J. D. Dulcken, Amsterdam, 1745 c. harpsichord)
Wouter Moeller (G. Celoniati, Turin 1742 violoncello)

Alma Musica Amsterdam / Bob van Asperen (conductor)
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/N…

2001
Virgin Classics 7243 5 61878 2 5 – DDD
http://www.virginclassics.com/

[on authentic instruments]

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Tommaso Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2 (Han de Vries/Alma Musica Amsterdam)

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Tommaso Albinoni (1671-1750): Oboe Concerto in D minor,

Op. 9, No. 2:

1. Allegro e non presto
2. Adagio
3. Allegro

Han de Vries, oboe
Alma Musica Amsterdam
Bob van Asperen, director and harpsichord

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  • “Concerti a cinque Op. 9 for oboe and strings (2001 Digital Remaster), Concerto No. 2 in D minor: II. Adagio” by Han de Vries/Alma Musica Amsterdam /Bob van Asperen (Google Play • AmazonMP3)

 

 

Today In History. What Happened This Day In History

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

February 9

1567		Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up.
1799		The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
1825		The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.
1861		Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1864		Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.
1904		Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.
1909		France agrees to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy.
1916		Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.
1922		The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
1942		Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India.
1943		The Red Army takes back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Germans.
1946		Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.
1951		Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.
1953		The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam.
1964		The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.
1978		Canada expels 11 Soviets in spying case.
1994		Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.
Born on February 9
1773		William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office.
1814		Samuel Tilden, philanthropist.
1819		Lydia E. Pinkham, patent-medicine maker and entrepeneur.
1846		William Maybach, German engineer, designed the first Mercedes automobile.
1871		Howard T. Ricketts, pathologist.
1874		Amy Lowell, poet.
1880		James Stephens, Irish writer (The Charwoman’s Daughter, The Crock of Gold).
1909		Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
1923		Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and poet (The Hostage, The Quare Fellow).
1944		Alice Walker, Pulitzer prize winning author (The Color Purple).

– See more at: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history#sthash.EIt8nuuR.dpuf

Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, great compositions/performances

Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

MovieMongerHZ

Uploaded on Oct 5, 2010/3,887,444

I don’t know who performed this, but it’s by far the best recording I’ve ever heard!! Enjoy!!
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 Fragment of the first page of BWV 565 in Johannes Ringk‘s handwriting. Bach’s autograph does not survive, and this is the only known near-contemporary source.

The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach. First published in 1833 through the efforts of Felix Mendelssohn, the piece quickly became popular, and is now one of the most famous works in the organ repertoire. Since the 1970s, some scholars have challenged the attribution of the piece to Bach.

History

As with most Bach organ works, no autograph manuscript of BWV 565 survives. The only near-contemporary source is an undated copy by Johannes Ringk, a pupil of Johann Peter Kellner. Several compositions by him^{[clarification needed]} survive, and he is also notable today for his copies of numerous keyboard works by Georg Böhm, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Dieterich Buxtehude, and other important masters.^[1]

The title of the piece is given in Ringk’s manuscript as Toccata Con Fuga. It is most probably a later addition, similar to the title of Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, BWV 564, because in the Baroque era such organ pieces would most commonly be called simply Prelude (Praeludium, etc.) or Prelude and Fugue.^[2] Ringk’s copy abounds in Italian tempo markings, fermatas (a characteristic feature of Ringk’s copies) and staccato dots, all very unusual features for pre–1740 German music. All later manuscript copies that are known today originate directly or indirectly with Ringk’s.^[1]

BWV 565 exhibits a typical simplified north German structure with a free opening (toccata), a fugal section (fugue), and a short free closing section. The connection to the north German organ school was noted early by Bach biographer Philipp Spitta in 1873.^[3] However, the numerous recitative stretches are rarely found in the works of northern composers and may have been inspired by Johann Heinrich Buttstett,^[4] whose few surviving free works, particularly his Prelude and Capriccio in D minor, exhibit similar features. A passage in the fugue of BWV 565 is an exact copy of a phrase in one of Johann Pachelbel‘s D minor fantasias, and the first half of the subject is based on this Pachelbel passage as well.^[5] It was common practice at the time to create fugues on other composers’ themes, and a number of such pieces by Bach are known (BWV 574, 579, 950, etc.); moreover, the bass pattern of the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, is borrowed from André Raison‘s organ passacaglia, also using only the first half of Raison’s passage (just the way BWV 565 borrows from Pachelbel).

The work was first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in late 1833 as part of a collection of Bach’s organ works. The edition was conceived and partly prepared by Felix Mendelssohn, who had BWV 565 in his repertoire already by 1830.^[6] Mendelssohn’s opinion of the piece, expressed in one of his letters, was that it was “at the same time learned and something for the [common] people.”^[7] The first major public performance was also by Mendelssohn, on 6 August 1840 in Leipzig. The concert was very well received by the critics, among them Robert Schumann.^[8] Later in the 19th century, Franz Liszt adopted the piece into his organ repertoire, and a piano transcription was made by Liszt’s pupil Carl Tausig, which gained substantial fame. Another popular transcription was completed in 1899 by Ferruccio Busoni. In the 20th century, an orchestral version of the piece, created by Leopold Stokowski, popularized the work further when it was included in Walt Disney‘s film Fantasia, released in 1940.^[9]

The work’s famous opening drew attention and praise already from Schumann, who, however, admired it as an example of Bach’s sense of humor.^[10] In the 20th century the work was generally viewed very differently, as a bold and dramatic piece. Musicologist Hermann Keller, writing in 1948, described the opening bars’ unison passages as “descending like a lightning flash, the long roll of thunder of the broken chords of the full organ, and the stormy undulation of the triplets.”^[11] A similar view has been expressed by noted Bach scholar and former director of Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Hans-Joachim Schulze:

“Here is elemental and unbounded power, in impatiently ascending and descending runs and rolling masses of chords, that only with difficulty abates sufficiently to give place to the logic and balance of the fugue. With the reprise of the initial Toccata, the dramatic idea reaches its culmination amidst flying scales and with an ending of great sonority.^[12]”

Writing in 2005, organist and Bach scholar Hans Fagius commented that while the authorship issue may remain unresolved, the enduring popularity of the work is not difficult to understand, since there is “a fantastic drive and energy to the piece that simply make it irresistible.”^[13]

In popular culture

The Toccata has been used in a variety of popular media ranging from film, video games, to rock music, and ringtones.

It is used for the opening credits of the 1931 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.^[40]

In 1960 Federico Fellini featured the track in his movie La Dolce Vita, being played by a character at a church organ.

The 1962 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera by Hammer Productions featured the piece, and since then, the movie has helped to associate the music with horror movies, Halloween, and the like in popular culture.^[41]

The jazz/R&B group Brass Fever featured an arrangement of the composition on their self-titled 1975 album as “Bach Bone”.

Jon Lord of Deep Purple fame recorded a composition called “Bach onto this”, which is based on BWV 565. It appears on his 1982 album Before I Forget.

English progressive rock band Egg covered the piece for their 1970 debut album.

Dutch progressive/symphonic rock band Ekseption covered the piece for their 1973 album Trinity.

The English classical/rock fusion band Sky (featuring the classical guitarist John Williams and classical percussionist Tristan Fry) scored a Top 10 pop hit with their 1980 arrangement of the Toccata section of BWV 565. This version crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, charting at #83.^[42]

Vanessa-Mae recorded a cover of this piece. It reached number 24 on the Billboard charts.^[43]

The track is used for the opening credits and final freeze-frame of the 1975 film Rollerball.

In Walt Disney’s 1940 film, Fantasia, it is used as the first piece of the film, transcribed for full symphony orchestra by the conducter, Leopold Stokowski. The Disney animators were given an abstract theme to create the image to the music.^[44]

 

 

 

 

Mondial – Atât de fragedă ( pe versurile poemului cu acelasi nume de Mihail Eminescu, nume de familie originar: Eminovici originar din satul Vad, Tara Fagarasului)

Mondial – Atât de fragedă

TVR

Published on Jan 15, 2014

Pe 15 ianuarie, sărbătorim împreună, la TVR2, 164 de ani de la naşterea lui Mihai Eminescu. Pe tot parcursul zilei vă propunem o serie de fillere. Unul dintre acestea este cel în care formaţia Mondial interpretează piesa „Atât de fragedă”

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Acest articol se referă la poet. Pentru alte sensuri, vedeți Eminescu (dezambiguizare).

Mihai Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu în 1869, la Praga
Naștere	15 ianuarie 1850 Botoșani, Principatul Moldovei
Deces	15 iunie 1889 (39 de ani) București, România
Ocupație	poet, jurnalist
Naționalitate	român
Activitatea literară
Activ ca scriitor	1866–1888
Mișcare/curent literar	Romantism
Subiecte	condiția geniului, moartea, iubirea
Specie literară	poezie, nuvelă
Operă de debut	poezia „La mormântul lui Aron Pumnul”
Influențe[ascunde] Folclorul românesc, Mitologia egipteană, Cultura clasică, Shakespeare, Schopenhauer, Kant, Hegel, Schiller, Lenau, Novalis, Goethe, Vede, Budism, Creștinism ortodox
A influențat pe[ascunde] Toată literatura română ce i-a urmat (de la tradiționaliști, la marii scriitori încadrați modernismului românesc, ca și la cei neomoderniști sau scriitorii postmoderni, optzeciști)
Note
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Membru post mortem al Academiei Române

Mihai Eminescu (născut Mihail Eminovici; n. 15 ianuarie 1850, Botoșani – d. 15 iunie 1889, București) a fost un poet, prozator și jurnalist român, socotit de cititorii români și de critica literară postumă drept cea mai importantă voce poetică din literatura română.^[1] Receptiv la romantismele europene de secol XVIII și XIX, și-a asimilat viziunile poetice occidentale, creația sa aparținând unui romantism literar relativ întârziat. În momentul în care Mihai Eminescu a recuperat temele tradiționale ale Romantismului european, gustul pentru trecut și pasiunea pentru istoria națională, căreia a dorit chiar să-i construiască un Pantheon de voievozi, nostalgia regresivă pentru copilărie, melancolia și cultivarea stărilor depresive, întoarcerea în natură etc., poezia europeană descoperea paradigma modernismului, prin Charles Baudelaire sau Stephane Mallarme, bunăoară. Poetul avea o bună educație filosofică, opera sa poetică fiind influențată de marile sisteme filosofice ale epocii sale, de filosofia antică, de la Heraclit la Platon, de marile sisteme de gândire ale romantismului, de teoriile lui Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant (de altfel Eminescu a lucrat o vreme la traducerea tratatului acestuia Critica rațiunii pure, la îndemnul lui Titu Maiorescu, cel care îi ceruse să-și ia doctoratul în filosofia lui Kant la Universitatea din Berlin, plan nefinalizat pînă la urmă) și de teoriile lui Hegel.

Rădăcina ideologică principală a gândirii sale economice sau politice era conservatoare; prin articolele sale publicate mai ales în perioada în care a lucrat la Timpul a reușit să-i deranjeze pe cîțiva lideri importanți din acest mare partid care au lansat sloganul, celebru în epocă, „Ia mai opriți-l pe Eminescu ăsta!”. Publicistica eminesciană oferă cititorilor o radiografie a vieții politice, parlamentare sau guvernamentale din acea epocă; în plus ziaristul era la nevoie și cronicar literar sau teatral, scria despre viața mondenă sau despre evenimente de mai mică importanță, fiind un veritabil cronicar al momentului.

Eminescu a fost activ în societatea politico-literară Junimea, și a lucrat ca redactor la Timpul, ziarul oficial al Partidului Conservator.^[2] A publicat primul său poem la vârsta de 16 ani, iar la 19 ani a plecat să studieze la Viena. Manuscrisele poetului Mihai Eminescu, 46 de volume, aproximativ 14.000 de file, au fost dăruite Academiei Române de Titu Maiorescu, în ședinta din 25 ianuarie 1902.^[3] Eminescu a fost internat în 3 februarie 1889 la spitalul Mărcuța din București și apoi a fost transportat la sanatoriul Caritas. În data de 15 iunie 1889, în jurul orei 4 dimineața, poetul a murit în sanatoriul doctorului Șuțu. În 17 iunie Eminescu a fost înmormântat la umbra unui tei din cimitirul Bellu din București. A fost ales post-mortem (28 octombrie 1948) membru al Academiei Române.  

Find out more about familia Eminovici, si vizitati lucul vesnic al familiei lui Mhai Eminescu, in tintirimul din Vad, Judetul Sercaia, Tara Fagaarasului (acum, judetul Brasov)      HERE

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Eminescu, mai aredelean decât îl lasă istoria să fie – Buna Ziua Fagaras (Pe linga plopii fara sot cu Maria Raaducanu si Maxim Belciug)

Joi, 15 ianuarie, se vor împlini 165 de ani de la naşterea poetului şi gazetarului Mihai Eminescu.

Profesorul făgărăşean Ion Funariu a făcut cercetări pe vremea când era dascăl la ,,Radu Negru” şi a scris o carte în care publică informaţii uluitoare despre poet. Se pare că strămoşii lui Mihai Eminescu sunt ardeleni get-beget proveniţi din inima Ţării Făgăraşului, mai exact satul Vad, comuna Şercaia.

via Eminescu, mai aredelean decât îl lasă istoria să fie – Buna Ziua Fagaras.

Maria Raducanu & Maxim Belciug – Pe langa plopii fara sot (Guilelm Sorban / Mihai Eminescu)

Kitarodia Romania

Romanian romance for voice and guitar with Maria Raducanu & Maxim Belciug. Music by Guilelm Sorban, words by Mihai Eminescu. Live recording, march 2010. More videos at http://www.maximbelciug.ro

Here’s an English translation of the lyrics, made by Corneliu M. Popescu:

___________________
Down where the lonely poplars grow
How often have I erred;
My steps that all the neighbors know
You only have not heard.

Towards your window lighted through
How oft my gaze has flown;
A world entire my secret knew
You only have not known.

A word, a murmur of reply
How often did I pray!
What matters then if I should die,
Enough to live that day;

To know one hour of tenderness,
One hour of lovers’ night;
To hear you whisper’s soft caress
One hour, then come what might!

Had you but granted me a glance
That was not filled with scorn,
Out of its shinning radiance
A new star has been born.

You would have lived through lives untold
Beyond the ends of time;
O deity with arms so cold,
O marble form sublime!

An idol of some pagan lore
As now no more is seen,
Come down to us from times yore,
From times that long have been.

My worship was of ages gone,
Sad eyes by faith beguiled,
Each generation handed on
From father unto child.

But now I very little care
To walk along that lane,
Nor heed the face I found so fair
Looks out for me in vain;

For you are like them today
In bearing and in guise,
And I but look on your display
With cold and lifeless eyes.

You should have known to value right
With wondering intent,
And lit your candela at night
To Love that God had sent.
______________________

Corneliu M. Popescu ( 1958 -1977) is considered to be the best English translator of Eminescu’s poems. He set a standard in poetry translation that continues to be valid even today, therefore the Prize for Poetry in Translation (awarded by the Poetry Society UK) carries his name. Unfortunately, Corneliu M. Popescu died at the age of 19, in the earthquake that took place in March 1977, in Romania

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Mihai Eminescu – Somnoroase pasarele ( Madrigal )

wilderlife2009

Published on Jan 11, 2014

~ Drowsy birds ~

Drowsy birds at even gliding,
Round about their nests alight,
In among the branches hiding…
Dear, good night!

Silence through the forest creeping,
Lullaby the river sighs;
In the garden flowers sleeping…
Shut your eyes!

Glides the swan among the rushes
To its rest where moonlight gleams,
And the angels’ whisper hushes…
Peaceful dreams!

O’er the sky stars without number,
On the earth a silver light;
All is harmony and slumber…
Dear, good night!

( Mihai Eminescu )

today’s holiday: First Monday Trade Days (2015)

First Monday Trade Days (2015)

The First Monday Trade Days are a trading bazaar that each month brings 100,000-300,000 people to the small town of Canton, Texas. This legendary affair in northern Texas has its origins in the 1850s when the circuit court judge came to Canton on the first Monday of the month to conduct court proceedings. Farmers from the area would gather to sell or trade horses, conduct other business in town, and watch the occasional hanging. Now the flea market starts on Thursday and runs through the weekend before the first Monday, offering merchandise and food at more than 3,000 exhibition stalls. More… Discuss

health: One Kiss Carries 80 Million Bacteria

One Kiss Carries 80 Million Bacteria

This latest research may make you think twice before locking lips with anyone. The mouth is home to tens of millions of bacteria, and just one 10-second kiss can transfer as many as 80 million of them. The good news, if you want to call it that, is that while bacteria in the saliva seem to change quickly following a kiss, populations on the tongue remain more stable. This finding is important to researchers, as it could help with the development of bacterial therapies and treatments. More… Discuss

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this day in the yesteryear: Last Quagga Dies at Amsterdam’s Artis Magistra Zoo (1883)

Last Quagga Dies at Amsterdam’s Artis Magistra Zoo (1883)

Once found in great numbers on the plains of South Africa, the quagga was heavily hunted by Dutch settlers and became extinct in 1883. A century later, it was the first extinct animal to have its DNA studied. This research determined that the quagga was most likely a variant of the common zebra, contrasting the theory that it was a separate species. The quagga had a sandy brown coat but—like the zebra—had dark stripes on its head, neck, and shoulders. Where did the name “quagga” come from? More… Discuss

European Union Baroque Orchestra – Händel: Te Deum Utrecht, Jubilate Utrecht – Lars Ulrik Mortensen: make music part of your life series

European Union Baroque Orchestra – Händel: Te Deum Utrecht, Jubilate Utrecht – Lars Ulrik Mortensen

FROM:

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Bekijk ook het tweede deel van dit concert: http://youtu.be/xgtRjiywS20

European Union Baroque Orchestra & Choir of Clare College o.l.v. Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Alex Potter, contratenor

Georg Frideric Händel (1685-1759)
Te Deum ‘Utrecht’ HWV 278 (1713)
Jubilate ‘Utrecht’ HWV 279

Opgenomen tijdens het Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht in de Domkerk op 31 augustus 2013

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge: Janneke Dupre, Gabrielle Haigh, Alice Halstead, Sophie Horrocks, Helen Lilley, Caroline Meinhardt, Madeleine Seale, Rachael Ward, sopraan
Clara Betts-Dean, Abigail Gostick, Emma Simmons, Eva Smith-Leggatt, Eleanor Warner, alt
Laurence Booth-Clibborn, Nils Greenhow, Peter Harrison, Christopher Loyn, Alexander Peter, tenor
Adam Cigman-Mark, William Cole, Elliot Fitzgerald, Matthew Jorysz, Charles Littlewood, Magnus Maharg, Alexander McBride, Hugo Popplewell, James Proctor, bas
Graham Ross, koorleider

European Union Baroque Orchestra: Zefira Valova, Roldán Bernabé-Carrión, Christiane Eidsten Dahl, Antonio De Sarlo, Yotam Gaton, Saron Houben, Sarina Matt, Daphne Oltheten, Jamiang Santi, viool
Rafael Roth, Hilla Heller, Andrea Angela Ravandoni, altviool
Guillermo Turina Serrano, Nicola Paoli, cello
Lisa De Boos, contrabas
Alexis Kossenko, traverso
Clara Geuchen, Johannes Knoll, hobo
Andrew Burn, fagot
Sebastian Philpott, Gerard Serrano Garcia, trompet
Marianna Henriksson, klavecimbel

Brahms Tragische Ouvertüre – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [HD] (great compostions/performances)

Brahms Tragische Ouvertüre
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra o.l.v. Daniele Gatti
3 oktober 2010 Concertgebouw Amsterdam

 

295 Thought Dead in New Malaysia Airlines Tragedy

A Malaysia Airlines flight bound for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam crashed in eastern Ukraine yesterday, and it may not have been an accident. Ukraine has accused terrorists of shooting down the commercial flight, while the rebels have pointed the finger back at Ukraine. All 295 persons on board—280 passengers and 15 crew—are presumed dead. This is the second tragedy to strike the airline this year. In March, another flight went missing without a trace, and it has yet to be found. More… Discuss

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today’s birthday: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606)

 

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606)

Rembrandt is considered one of the greatest European painters. Early on, he displayed an interest in the “spotlight effects” of light and shadow that dominate his later paintings and began the studies of his own face and the more formal self-portraits that make up much of his painted and etched work. After moving to Amsterdam around 1631, he quickly became the city’s most fashionable portrait painter and a popular teacher. However, he went bankrupt in 1656. What had happened to his money? More… Discuss

today’s birthday: Anne Frank (1929)

Anne Frank (1929)

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who, with her parents and sister, hid from the Nazis in a secret annex above her father’s Amsterdam office building for two years. Betrayed to the Germans in 1944, the Franks were deported to concentration camps, where all but father Otto perished. The diary Anne kept during their time in the annex, a work characterized by poignancy, humor, and tart observation, was later published and is now an international bestseller. Why did Otto edit out some parts of the diary? More… Discuss

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J.S. Bach – Easter Oratorio, BWV 249

[youtube.com/watch?v=az7WSBW8WeY]

The Amsterdam Baroque Choir
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman

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Make Music Part of Your Life Series: Prokofiev in a Club! Sonata #7 Yellow Lounge Amsterdam Lisitsa

One day in a future the ‘traditional” concert halls will go the way of ‘traditional” movie theaters = disappear from use. I told you before – the BEST place to listen to the piano is directly under it. But try that in Concergebouw or Carnegie Hall _ they will call police on you 😉 Not so in a club . Yellow Lounge Amsterdam March 19th 2014 – http://www.trouwamsterdam.nl An ultimate experience listening to Prokofiev . Never mind the tinny captured recording – it was Imperial after all and it RRRRrrrocked – just ask the willing “victims” 🙂

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Great Compositions/Performances: Johannes Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83

Claudio Arrau, piano.

Concertgebouw-Orchester, Amsterdam.

Recorded: Concertgebrouw, Amsterdam, October 1969. 

Bernard Haitink, conductor.

1. Allegro Non Troppo 
2. Allegro Appassionato 
3. Andante – Più Adagio 
4. Allegretto Grazioso – Un Poco Più Presto

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment. It is separated by a gap of 22 years from the composer’s first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878 and completed it in 1881 while in Pressbaum near Vienna. It is dedicated to his teacher, Eduard Marxsen. The premiere of the concerto was given in Budapest on November 9, 1881, with Brahms as soloist, and was an immediate success. He proceeded to perform the piece in many cities across Europe.

Allegro non troppo
The first movement is in the concerto variant of sonata form. The main theme is introduced with a horn solo, with the piano interceding. The woodwind instruments proceed to introduce a small motif before an unusually placed cadenza appears. The full orchestra repeats the theme and introduces more motifs in the orchestral exposition. The piano and orchestra work together to develop these themes in the piano exposition before the key changes to F minor (from F major, the dominant) and the piano plays a powerful and difficult section before the next orchestral tutti appears. The development, like many such sections in the Classical period, works its way from the dominant key back to the tonic while heavily developing themes. At the beginning of the recapitulation, the theme is replayed before a differing transition is heard, returning to the music heard in the piano exposition (this time in B-flat major / B-flat minor). A coda appears after the minor key section, finishing off this movement.

Allegro appassionato
This scherzo is in the key of D minor and is in ternary form. Contrary to Brahms’s “tiny wisp of a scherzo” remark, it is a tumultuous movement. The piano and orchestra introduce the theme and develop it before a quiet section intervenes. Soon afterwards the piano and orchestra launch into a stormy development of the theme before coming to the central episode (in D major). The central episode is brisk and begins with the full orchestra before yet another quiet section intervenes; then the piano is integrated into the orchestral effect to repeat the theme of the central episode. The beginning section returns but is highly varied.

Andante
The slow movement is in the tonic key of B-flat major and is unusual in utilizing an extensive cello solo within a piano concerto. Brahms subsequently rewrote the cello’s theme and changed it into a song, Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (“My Slumber grows ever more Peaceful”) with lyrics by Hermann Van Lingg. (Op. 105, No. 2). Within the concerto, the cello plays the theme for the first three minutes, before the piano comes in. However, the gentler melodic piece that the piano plays soon gives way to a stormy theme in B-flat minor. When the storm subsides, still in the minor key, the piano plays a transitional motif that leads to the key of G-Flat major, before the Cello comes in to reprise, in the wrong key, and knowing that it has to get back to B-flat major, the piano and the orchestra make a transition to finish off the theme in its original home key of B-flat major. After the piano plays the transitional motifs, the piano quickly reprises the middle section in a major key, before playing the final chords to end this beautiful movement.

Allegretto grazioso
The last movement consists of five clearly distinguishable sections, of which the last is a ‘stretto’ (faster) coda. The first section (bars 1 to 64) is built on two themes: the first and main theme of classical structure (1-8) is first played by the piano and then repeated by the orchestra. The second theme (16-20) is likewise presented by the piano and repeated – and expanded – by the orchestra. A kind of development of the first theme leads to the next section. The second section (65-164) is built on three themes. Number three (65-73, a minor) is very different from the previous ones: by its minor key and its rhythm, which is Hungarian, in Number four (81-88) is still in a minor and number five (97-104) in F major. These three themes are repeated several times, which gives the section the character of a development. The third section (165-308) can be seen as a reprise of the first; it is built on the first two themes, but a striking new element is given in 201-205 and repeated in 238-241. The fourth section (309-376) gives the themes 3, 5 and 4, in that order. The coda is built on the main theme, but even here (398) Brahms presents a new element, being in a form of a little march, first played by the piano, and then, the orchestra comes in, and trades themes in the march before the final chords.

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News: AMSTERDAM PAYING ALCOHOLICS IN BEER TO CLEAN STREETS

Amsterdam Paying Alcoholics in Beer to Clean Streets

An unorthodox program in Amsterdam that employs alcoholics to clean the streets and pays them in cash, tobacco, and beer is raising a few eyebrows. The program was developed because alcoholics in Amsterdam’s Oosterparkwere becoming a regular nuisance—getting into fights, being noisy, making lewd comments to passing women—and it was thought that street cleaning would keep them occupied and out of trouble. Still, the practice of enticingaddicts to work with promises of the very substance to which they are addicted does not sit well with some. More… Discuss

Johanes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.20 in D major, (K 133)

Álbum: Mozart, Complete Works Vol. 1: Symphonies Complete
Interprete del álbum: Jaap Ter Linden & Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Compositor: Johanes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

DANGER ON THE ROADS

Spending hours at the wheel can make anyone sleepy, but for truck drivers, whose livelihoods depend on how quickly they can get to their destinations, taking a break is often not seen as an option. Instead, many truckers opt for alcohol or other mind-altering substances, like marijuana, amphetamines, and cocaine, to keep them on the road. An analysis of 36 studies shows that this is going on all over the world in varying degrees. Substance use seems to be linked to poor working conditions, suggesting that taking steps to improve working conditions for truckers could reduce this dangerous practice. More… Discuss

 

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVKY.- The Sleeping Beauty Suite Op.66

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVKY.- 

The Sleeping Beauty Suite Op.66

Introdicción
Pas d’action “Rose Adagio”
Panorama
Waltz
Finale

Orquesta Sinfónica de Amsterdam
Director: Peter Stern

Rodrigo Y Gabriela Live in Amsterdam Part 11/13 (Stairway to Heaven)

Rodrigo Y Gabriela Live in Amsterdam (29-11-2008) Part 11/13
Stairway to Heaven