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[Publius]

Camille Saint-Saens could write concertos like nobody’s business. His piano concertos still remain in the repertory, and his Second Piano Concerto is a perennial. The scherzo from that concerto was a favorite of George Gershwin, who labeled it “a Parisian in Paris”. The finale is a marvelous, wild tarantella. This is Arthur Rubinstein’s video performance with Andre Previn at the podium taped in the Seventies. Rubinstein was 88 and almost blind, but he hadn’t lost it.

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #2 in G minor, second and third movements

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Hi everybody!

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[Publius]

Camille Saint-Saens could write blockbusters when he wanted. This piece for violin and orchestra was once something that every virtuoso had to learn, but it’s almost passed out of the repertory today. Some have criticized it as barely being music, but it’s something a good concert violinist needs to put his imprint upon. This is Itzhak Perlman, whose interpretation makes the piece work better than anyone else.

Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capiccioso for Violin & Orchestra

[Publius]

Hello, M-L.

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How are you holding up?

[The Mayor]

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Creating Your Life
July 18, 2013

The advice that I read in a self-help book sounded good: Do only what you’re great at because that’s when you’ll feel most fulfilled. The author was trying to help readers create the kind of life they wanted. I don’t know about you, but if I did only what I was great at, I wouldn’t accomplish much!

In Mark 10, we read about two disciples, James and John, who had some plans for the kind of life they wanted for themselves someday. They asked to be at Jesus’ right and left hand in His kingdom (v.37). The other 10 disciples were “greatly displeased” with them for asking (v.41). (Possibly because that was the kind of position they wanted for themselves!)

But Jesus used the opportunity to teach His followers about another kind of life—one of serving others. He said, “Whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all” (vv.43-44). It appears that service for others is God’s design for us.

Even Jesus, the Son of God, “did not come to be served, but to serve” (v.45). As we look at Christ’s example and depend on the Holy Spirit’s help, we too can be servants and will create a fulfilling life.

I admit, Lord, that my eyes do get focused on
myself. But I really do want to live from a
heart of love for You. Teach me to be a servant
and to look for my fulfillment in You.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Read: Mark 10:35-45

Whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. —Mark 10:44

Bible in a Year:
Psalms 20-22; Acts 21:1-17

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I arranged the main theme from the Bacchanal for easy piano with a thumpy repeating bass figure and the theme floating over it in the right hand. The Kids LOVE it.

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LOL.

One of my all-time favorites.

Went to the link...somebody STOLE all the costumes!

[Publius]

Camille Saint-Saens had a short piece for orchestra become an instant classic. This may be his best known piece, a perennial favorite for Halloween. He even writes a fugue in the middle!

Saint-Saens: La danse macabre

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...is Linda home? Glad to see you? A comfort I’ll bet.

[Publius]

That link leads to a rather racy Bacchanale. I think some people weren’t even wearing costumes. We were one step above birthday suits.

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Oh yes.

She is curled up at my feet as we speak.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

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I think we ought to pass the hat and buy those poor dancers some clothing.

Some of those ladies looked like they could use a hot meal as well.

LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

I am imagining her turning herself inside out when mommy picked her up.

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One of my all-time favorites.

This was my Halloween music growing up, along with “Night on Bald Mountain”, “Symphonie Fantastique”, “Ride of the Valkyries”, “Totentantz”, and of course, the perennial favorite, Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in Dm”.

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Well...she weighs over 60 Pounds...so SOMETHING is going to turn inside-out.

[Publius]

The Bacchanale from the 1998 production was even naughtier. There was a lot of simulated sex, both hetero- and homo-. The production designer had done some research on the sexual practices of the Philistine culture.

Mercifully, we were spared the famous statue of Dagon with the retractable phallus.

This 1983 production was relatively prim compared to 1998.

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Hanging in there.

People have been really supportive, and i know Lil went the way we all would have liked...quickly, in the arms of a dear friend.

I should be so lucky someday.

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Well....wasn’t 1998 the year we all were singing “Devil With the Blue dress”?

[Publius]

Camille Saint-Saens even wrote his share of symphonies. The only one that survives today is his third, known as the “Organ Symphony” because of its use of organ in the orchestration. He also uses two pianos, not as solo instruments, but in an obbligato role. His orchestration for this piece is quite different from his usual sound; it’s almost Wagnerian. The first three movements show how good a composer he could be when he wanted to, but the finale shows him at his least competent. For this reason, critic Jim Svedje (pronounced “SHVAY-da”) classifies it as musical trash, and Andre Previn refuses to conduct it.

The theme of the finale is useful only as a chorus for animals to sing in a movie about a pig that wants to be a sheepdog. Here is how Australian director George Miller handled it.

”Gloria” from “Babe”

About the only thing you can do with a short theme like this is state it over and over again in different forms. Beethoven could get away with this mono-thematic approach in the finale of his “Pastoral Symphony”, but Camille doesn’t have the gift to make it work. At 1:53 he tries to work it up as a fugue, but it falls apart almost immediately because the theme is the wrong shape for development as counterpoint. In fact you can barely develop it at all. At 4:00 it almost comes together, but he ends up simply restating his theme in another key and instrumental combination with the cymbals as a kind of punctuation. This is what happens when composers don’t quite know what to do with their musical material. At the end he caps it off with a slow, banal run down the C Major scale for organ. It sounds better in the movie.

Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 in C minor, Op. 78, finale

For those who want to hear three really good movements capped with one really bad finale, here is the complete piece. This is a great piece for wallerin’.

Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 in C minor, Op. 78

[The Mayor]

Evenin Kathy, had a late 2nd Amendment group meeting tonight. Ran real late but we are fighting for our Rights as always in NY.