First Sunday Music - Celebration Music

[HoosierHawk]

Celebration Music

Water Music

After a stay in England, George Frideric Handel returned to Germany in 1710 and became court composer for the Elector of Hanover, George Ludwig, who would later become King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.

Late in 1712, Handel asked George for permission to return to England and overstayed his visit while receiving a severance from Queen Anne of England, the last of the House of Stuart.

After the passing of Queen Anne, Handel composed "Water Music," in an effort to regain the favor of the Elector of Hanover (now King George I), his former employer. It premiered in the summer of 1717 when King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. Handel hired 50 musicians playing on a barge, (rented by Handel), close to the royal barge from which the King listened with some close friends (including the Duchess of of Bolton, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Countess of Godolphin, Madam Kilmarnock, and the Earl of Orkney). George I was said to have loved it so much that he ordered the exhausted musicians to play the suites three times on the trip.

Music for the Royal Fireworks

Handel also created the well-known Music for the Royal Fireworks in 1749 to celebrate the end of the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748).

1812 Overture

As a composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky was greatly influenced by the prevailing sentiment of nationalism among top Russian composers. From 1876 to 1890 Tchaikovsky was supported by a wealthy patron, which allowed him the opportunity to produce a great deal of work, especially operas. He was a supreme master of orchestral color and used traditional Russian material, although it is shrouded in Western art music tradition. His 1812 overture, composed in 1880, is a graphic musical description of the forced retreat of Napoleon's armies from Moscow.

Water Music

The New York Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez

Music for the Royal Fireworks

The New York Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez

1812 Overture

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim

[HoosierHawk]

Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, friends, and allies this Independence Day weekend.

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[HoosierHawk]

Some celebration music of our own:

The National Anthem

Tribute To Our Troops

God Bless America

America the Beautiful

Yankee Doodle Dandy

And a personal fav:

You Dropped a Bomb on Me!

Thanks to mylife for the classical music suggestions.

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[MEG33]

THANK YOU HOOSIER HAWK FOR FIRST SUNDAY
MUSIC
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[HoosierHawk]

Nice graphic! I’m glad you enjoy.

[MEG33]

;o)

[mylife]

One of my favorites Hawk!

Watermusic rocks.

I am watching PBS doing the 4th celebration in DC It is sooooo @#$kin lame. Huey Lewis and whats this?... L00ks like George Clooney singing woody Guthrie?

Thanks for some real music.

Happy Independence day~!

[Publius]

I won’t deny that Boulez had a genuine gift for music from the Baroque period. But you won’t understand music from that period unless you hear it on period instruments with genuine Baroque performance practice. Travor Pinnock and the English Concert have recordings far superior to Boulez for those Handel pieces.

[curmudgeonII]

Thank you

[Somehow I thought that, in view of the time of the year, you might have selected the 1812 overture.]

[AZamericonnie]

Just lovely HH & much appreciated!

Diggin’ the “Dropped A Bomb On Me”!:)

[curmudgeonII]

Shame on me!

I just looked at the initial selection of yours and I have to admit that I was out last night watching the Indianapolis Orchestra put on the 1812 Overture complete with 4 cannon from a National Guard detachment from Evansville [I think they were 155s] and the most spectacular firework display that I have ever seen. I'm still somewhat in awe of the whole thing.

[mylife]

PDQ Bach

[mylife]

It'sanotta Sonatta>~(but it's close ;)

[HoosierHawk]

Thanks, I’m glad you are enjoying the music.

[mylife]

Dance.... life is just a party...

;)

[HoosierHawk]

I agree with you, though it's not always possible to go with period instruments.

I'd point you to a previous thread, but I've lost all my music. I have to upload all of it again and that will take some time.

[bd476]

Napoleon leading his Grande Armée out of barren Moscow.

Russia Defeats
Napoleon and his Grand Armée
The War of 1812
also known as
The Franco-Russian War

In anticipation of Napoleon's advance into Moscow, Russian troops had taken food, provisions, and a large segment of the population and then fled Moscow to St. Petersburg.

There remains some disagreement on whether the retreating Russian troops had also set fires to further destroy any remaining food or supplies. The fires eventually burned Moscow to the ground leaving Napoleon's already starving Grande Armée in even more desperate straits.

The other theory says that Napoleon's Grande Armée upon finding no surrendering Russian troops, and no expected victor's provisions from what Napoleon viewed at the time as a defeated Russian army; and in an attempt to stay warm, may have started wood-burning fires themselves which then unfortunately spread and burned Moscow to the ground.

Tschaikovsky's 1812 Overture

Russian Tsar Alexander I signed a manifesto in December 1812 stating that he intended to build a Cathedral thanking God for saving Russia from Napoleon's Grande Armée and as a memorial to the sacrifices of the Russian people.

The Tsar commissioned the building of the beautiful and incredibly ornate Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow but it would undergo a change in the building site; some architectural plan changes, implemented by one or two new Tsars before the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour would host the debut of Tschaikovsky's 1812 Overture in 1882.

As the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was finally nearing completion, a friend of Tschaikovsky's had suggested that he compose something which would commemorate the 1812 Russian victory over Napoleon's Grande Armée; commemorate and be performed in celebration of the completion of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour; commemorate the 25th anniversary of the coronation of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 [Note: After many failed assassination attempts, Tsar Alexander II was assassinated March 13, 1881] as well as coinciding with the beginning of the 1882 Moscow Arts and Industry Exhibition.

Tchaikovsky began the project on October 12, 1880 and completed the 1812 Overture six weeks later.

[HoosierHawk]

That’s funny. I didn’t realize how much of the PDQ Bach videos are out there.

[HoosierHawk]

Great post! Thanks!

[pineybill]

All wonderful music, thank you. I also heartily recommend Handel’s Coronation Anthems (especially enjoy Zadok the Priest)