So I have this little list of 23 Composers that I've been posting here as their birthdays have been coming up. The first one of the year is Mozart ( due to be listed next month ) and the last one of the year is Van Beethoven who is on the list for today. Mozart & Van Beethoven as the book-ends for this list ! Hey it doesn't get any better than that.
You mean a little Liszt! :D
Sorry, couldn't resist.
So I have this little list of 23 Composers that I've been posting here as their birthdays have been coming up. The first one of the year is Mozart ( due to be listed next month ) and the last one of the year is Van Beethoven who is on the list for today. Mozart & Van Beethoven as the book-ends for this list ! Hey it doesn't get any better than that.
You mean a little Liszt! :D
Sorry, couldn't resist.
--- Thanks for that post Vulpes_Vulpes, I got a chuckle out of it. Of course Liszt was " liszted " here in this thread on October 22cnd lol.
Earlier today I ws listening to the Classical channel on the radio and I heard a piece of music that reminded me of the beauty of simple things. We have all seen classes of students in the early grades where they are tying to learn to play the " lowly " Recorder and chuckled at the thought of that being a " real " instrument. And yet today they played Vivaldi's Recorder Concerto in D Major, II G ( yes and it is a very nice piece of music indeed ).
On a slightly different note thay also played a Waltz by Johann Strauss SR. We are so used to hearing the music of Junior that we tend to forget about the Senior Strauss ( the piece played was the " Paganini Waltz ", very melodic and smooth ).
I post some jokes now and then in one of my other threads. I also saw a cute joke that fits into this thread: " An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger " (Btw, I believe the portion of that Overture in question here is called " The Gallop " ).
The subject of Orchestra Conductors has come up before here in this thread however we may have missed Andre Rieu who has been leading the Johann Strauss Orchestra for over 25 years. Rieu leans toward performing a lot of folk songs and may be overlooked at times but has had a lot of success with the JS Orchestra ( and I enjoy seeing him over on YouTube ).
Is he related to those chef brothers?
Thanks for the post Knight. I don't know very much about Rieu as I found him sort of by accident. Some months ago I was over on YouTube looking for some German Music and I came across a clip of Rieu and the JS Orchestra at a concert in Maastricht in 2009. Their guest star was the singer Heino and I liked the music quite a bit ( one song that they did there was " Sierra Madre ", not bad ).
In my post yesterday I I may have left the impression that Andre Rieu has taken the JS Orchestra way into the folk music field, not by a long shot. The concert at Maastricht was in the " Pops " format ( eg: as in the " Boston Pops " ). Another YouTube clip that I have recently seen features Rieu leading the JS Orchestra in Bolero ( by Ravel ), a personal favourite of mine, very nice.
Think Ravel was skating on thin ice with that one.
--- Thanks for the post Kaynight. Yes it seems to be written for fans of military music ( such as myself ).
Today is Jan 27th and the Classical channel on satellite radio is playing a Mozart marathon all day. Yep we have our 1st birthday boy of the year, good old Wolfgang.
Did he not end up in an argument in Colorado?
--- Thanks for the post Kaynight, I did not get the point tho lol. Zoomed right over my head.
Well it is Jan 30th now in Europe and that means this should be Schubert day.
Thanks for the post Kaynight.
This being Feb 3rd we come to the next fellow on our little list, one Mr Mendelssohn ( from the year of 1809 ).
And we arrive at another important date, Febuary 24th of 1685 for Mr. Handel. We may be able to put in a little joke here: okay everyone let's get out the lifejackets !
I was a fan of his sister Irene.... Sorry cab, just can't help myself.
--- Thanks for the posts Kaynight. I was quite worried that someone would request some " Water Music " ( yes a very poor attempt on my part at a joke lol ) .
It was wonderful how he assembled an orchestra to play that one in The Thames.
--- Thanks for the post and the info Kaynight.
Well we are into March now and this is a busy month for listing some Composers. March 2cnd is a good day as back in 1824 we had the arrival of Bedrich Smetana. If I had to choose one piece of music to listen to over and over again " The Moldau " would probably be the one, beautiful just beautiful.
Today we have an extra nice day where we have two people from our list on the same day, different years tho. In 1678 it was Vivaldi and in 1810 it was Chopin, not too bad I would say.
We always have late night Chopin on Thursday cab.
--- Thanks I like that joke Kaynight, a cute one. Speaking of having fun with the Classics I was over on YouTube ( again ) and found another interesting performance with Andre Rieu ( again ), this time with guest soloist Joja Wendt doing " Flight of the Bumblebee ". They do a very nice version of that piece and boy you need a pianist with a lot of energy to make it thru that lol.
Our birthday boy for March 18th is the one and only Rimsky-Korsakov ( born in 1844 ).
Tomorrow is a big day in the world of Music and I do not want to miss posting the name of this fellow. We have to go way back to 1685 for the birthday of JS Bach. Also if one scrolls back a few posts in this thread one can see that Handel was born in 1685 as well, that was a very good year indeed !
So I have this little list of 23 Composers that I've been posting here as their birthdays have been coming up. The first one of the year is Mozart ( due to be listed next month ) and the last one of the year is Van Beethoven who is on the list for today. Mozart & Van Beethoven as the book-ends for this list ! Hey it doesn't get any better than that.