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[Mikiesboy]

13 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

Vince Guaraldi et al perform his Theme to Grace at the Episcopal cathedral, San Francisco, 1965

That was great AC...bright way to start the day! I'm sure we'll listen to it later on together as well. Michael enjoyed it last night! 

[AC Benus]

4 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

That was great AC...bright way to start the day! I'm sure we'll listen to it later on together as well. Michael enjoyed it last night! 

That's nice to hear. Thank you

[Parker Owens]

4 hours ago, AC Benus said:

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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Vince Guaraldi et al perform his Theme to Grace at the Episcopal cathedral, San Francisco, 1965

 

 

 

 

A marvelous recording unknown to me until now...how unexpectedly the melismatic chant connects to the jazz... wonderful!

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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John Eliot Gardiner, Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro Della Beata Vergine, 1990

 

 

 

 

[AC Benus]

On 12/14/2017 at 1:01 PM, Steve3 said:

Big fan of El Sistema.  So heartbroken that economics and politics have dealt it such a blow.  I haven't heard any news about Maestro José Antonio Abreu in forever - hope he's still with us.

This one of the beautiful moments from BBC Proms

 

So, I was working and listening to this and utterly blown away by the Scherzo, then amazed once the soloist came in. This is a truly great performance. The amazing piano pianissimo such a city-sized chorus can achieve is breathtaking!   

 

I have recently made a performance translation of one of Mahler's Ruckert songs, and the lyrics of this symphony are closely related thematically to it. I feel motivated to launch into another Mahler translation exercise. Thank you for exposing me to some new and great music. 

 

btw, my translation can be found here:  https://www.gayauthors.org/story/ac-benus/translation-trashbin/5

 

 

Edited December 26, 2017 by AC Benus

[northie]

1 hour ago, AC Benus said:

John Eliot Gardiner, Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro Della Beata Vergine, 1990

A wonderful work given an amazing performance. Thanks, AC.

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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Today is a Sunday two-fer one! First, one for @Drew Espinosa. aniMIDIfy’s animated score of Paisiello’s Capriccio for Piano and Violin

 

 

 

And then, Carmirelli Quartet performing the same composer's sublime String Quartet in E-flat major, 1956

 

 

 

 

 

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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Richard Lewis and Malcolm Sargent, scena from Part II of Handel’s Messiah, recorded in Liverpool, 1959

 

No. 29: Thy rebuke hath broken his heart

No. 30: Behold and see

No. 32: But thou didst not leave

 

 

 

 

 

[Parker Owens]

Number 32...you knew what I like to hear! Wonderful! 

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen conducts Camille Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 19, 2017 by AC Benus

[MichaelS36]

I liked this one, AC!

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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Caterva Musica performs Wilhelmine von Bayreuth's Concerto in g-minor for keyboard and strings

 

 

 

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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John Feeley, J. S. Bach, Chaconne in d-minor on guitar

 

 

 

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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James Levine, Kathleen Battle, et al in the Met’s 1991 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. This was David Hockney’s original production for the work.

 

First, gotta love the three boys <3

 

 

 

 

Kurt Moll in one of his final stage roles

 

 

 

 

 

[northie]

On 20/12/2017 at 4:16 PM, AC Benus said:

Caterva Musica performs Wilhelmine von Bayreuth's Concerto in g-minor for keyboard and strings

A fairly ordinary concerto suddenly transformed by the performer's keyboard cadenza. Good to have a female composer. Thanks, AC.

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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Mattias Beckert conducts Joseph Eybler's Christmas Oratorio

 

If nothing else, be sure to listen to the finale of Part One, starting min. 33:00.  It’s enchanting, and beautifully Christmassy

(btw, the Part Two finale starts min. 1:03:28)

 

 

 

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

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Tony Rowe and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra preform William Henry Fry’s Santa Claus Symphony from 1853. From its premiere to the 1930s, Fry’s symphony was concertized all across America and was as integral a part of the holiday season as the Nutcracker is to us now. Ironically, it was the music of Tchaikovsky‘s ballet which replaced Fry’s incredibly charming tone poem.

 

The scenes are: Introduction and Christmas merrymaking; Juvenile song and dance (starting min. 4:16 and sounding straight out of Aaron Copland’s work – truly American music); Parting and farewell of party guests; Midnight approaches and the saying of “Our Father” by the children going to bed; Stillness “all being hushed in slumber”; The Snow Storm and death of the weary traveler (cello solo); Church bell tolls midnight; Santa’s sleigh appears; He distributes gifts in the sleeping children’s room; Angels welcome the dead traveler’s soul into heaven and show him the Christ Child; The children awake in joy; Chorus of Adeste fidelis.

 

 

 

See this dissertation on the first staging and long-term impact of Fry’s tone poem here

 

 

 

 

Edited December 24, 2017 by AC Benus

[Tiger]

 

 

[AC Benus]

 

Dead-Composers Society

proudly presents

12 Days of Christmas 2017

 

Music to keep you merry and bright

Please enjoy and happy holidays!

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Mozart’s performance of Handel’s Messiah – Worthy is the Lamb; Amen

 

 

[Mikiesboy]

Chills... in a good way on Christmas morning. 

[AC Benus]

Heard this the first time this morning while working. Extra-special bonus points if you can name the opera being quoted in the coda of the last movement... (starts min. 25:48) 

 

 

 

[AC Benus]

Oh, Happy Day! Finally something goes my way. To celebrate, here's a great number from the 1930 re-launch of Strike Up the Band! The Gershwins were decades ahead of their competitors. The story is an absurdist's holiday romp where an American chocolate company buys political influence, and convinces the U.S. to start a war with Swiss chocolate - not a trade war, but an actual war where the taxpayer will "get 25% of the profit!"  

 

In this number, three American carpet-baggers go 'over there' to woo three little Swiss Misses. The score is the original, including all the colorful orchestration, AND, this is how you do an encore! It's longer and more complex than the number it follows. So brilliant, so Gershiwins.

 

 

   

[Lux Apollo]

 

[MacGreg]

5 minutes ago, Lux Apollo said:

 

That's beautiful, Lux.

[mogwhy]

16 minutes ago, Lux Apollo said:

 

beautiful! transported me back to midnights in the cold of a Michigan winter as i watched the stars through swirling haze  of snowflakes. thank you.