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Jacqueline du Pré plays Schumann – Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129

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Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129

I. Nicht zu schnell –
II. Langsam –
III. Sehr lebhaft

In this 1967 live performance at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, legendary cellist Jacqueline du Pré plays the cello concerto by Robert Schumann (1810-1856). She is accompanied by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra

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today’s birthday: Gertrude Bell (1868)

Gertrude Bell (1868)

Bell was a British traveler, author, and one of the builders of the modern state of Iraq. After graduating from Oxford, she journeyed throughout the Middle East and, in World War I, placed her unmatched knowledge of Middle Eastern conditions and her fluent Arabic and Persian at the disposal of the British government. In 1915, she became the first woman appointed to the British intelligence service and later helped determine Iraq’s borders. Bell worked closely with what famous adventurer? More… Discuss

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Oxford is one of the oldest English-language universities in the world. A leading center of learning throughout the Middle Ages, it has maintained an outstanding reputation, especially in the classics, theology, and political science. John Locke, Adam Smith, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis, and Stephen Hawking are among the luminaries who have studied at Oxford. What founder of modern chemistry never formally studied at Oxford but was active in its academic community and awarded an honorary degree? More… Discuss

Saint of the Day, June 22, 2014: St. Thomas More

Saint of the Day

St. Thomas More

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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

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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

 

today’s holiday: Shick-Shack Day

Shick-Shack Day

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Make Music Part of Your Life Series: Th. Morley – Dances for Broken Consort, from the First Booke of Consort Lesson (1599)

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Th. Morley – Dances for Broken Consort, from the First Booke of Consort Lesson (1599)

From THE FIRST BOOKE OF CONSORT LESSONS, made by diuers exquisite Authors, for six Instruments to play together, the Treble Lute, the Bandora, the Cittern, the Base-Violl, the Flute & Treble-Violl
[published by William Barley in 1599]

William Byrd [1543-1623]
I. Mounsier’s Almaine – 0:05

John Dowland [1562-1626]
II. Lachrimae Pavan – 2:39

Anonymous composer [16th c.]
III. Michill’s Galliard – 7:15

John Dowland
IV. My Lord Chamberlain’s Galliard (lute duet) – 9:31

Richard Nicholson [c.1570 – Oxford, 1639]
V. The Jew’s Dance – 12:04

John Dowland
VI. Captaine Piper’s Pavan – 13:51
VII. Galliard – 18:07

William Byrd
VIII. My Lord of Oxenford’s Maske – 21:12

Thomas Morley [1557/8-1602]
IX. La Coranta- 24:05
X. Lavolto (La volta) – 26:32

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY: A. E. HOUSMAN (1859)

A. E. Housman (1859)

Housman studied at Oxford but left without a degree because he failed his final examinations. While working as a Patent Office clerk, Housman studied Latin texts and wrote journal articles that led to his appointment as a professor at University College, London, and later at Cambridge. He is remembered for the much-anthologized poem “When I was One-and-Twenty,” and his verse, based on Classical and traditional models, exerted a strong influence on later poets. Who was his famous brother?More… Discuss

When I Was One-and-Twenty

BY A. E. HOUSMAN

When I was one-and-twenty

       I heard a wise man say,

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas

       But not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubies

       But keep your fancy free.”

But I was one-and-twenty,

       No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty

       I heard him say again,

“The heart out of the bosom

       Was never given in vain;

’Tis paid with sighs a plenty

       And sold for endless rue.”

And I am two-and-twenty,

       And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.

Share this text …?

***Source: Father: An Anthology of Verse (EP Dutton & Company, 1931)***

 

THIS DAY IN THE YESTERYEAR: THE ST. SCHOLASTICA DAY RIOT (1355)

The St. Scholastica Day Riot (1355)

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QUOTATION: George Eliot

All honor and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women, and children—in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

George Eliot (1819-1880) Discuss

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Today’s Birthday: SIR HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM (1872)

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872)

A charming, witty, and elegant English caricaturist and writer, Beerbohm used his pen to parody whatever was pretentious, affected, or absurd in his famous and fashionable contemporaries. His works include A Christmas Garland, a collection of parodies on such authors as Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy; Zuleika Dobson, an amusing satire on Oxford and his only novel; and Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen, his first book of drawings. Who dubbed him “the incomparable Max“?More… Discuss

 

Yet Another Musical Jewel: Bruno Walter, 1938 – Haydn, Symphony No. 92 in G major “Oxford”

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 92 in G major “Oxford“
(Hoboken 1/92)

1.Adagio – Allegro spiritoso
2.Adagio cantabile
3.Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio
4.Presto

Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris
Bruno Walter, Conductor
Recorded, May 7, 1938
Salle de la Chimie, Paris.

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