Posted on 01/28/2014 6:01:36 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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These concerts will be broadcast by Seattles classical radio KING-FM. Thanks to the miracle of the Internet, they will be available live at the KING-FM website, and on concert nights I will lay out the schedule and provide a link to the concert.
Ill provide insights into the musicians if I happen to know them. Ill also give a preview of the pieces to be played.
Zoltan Kodaly (pronounced ko-DYE-ee) was a contemporary of Bela Bartok, and they both filtered Hungarian folk melody through a dissonant prism. It was Zoltan who invented the method of teaching music to deaf students via hand signals that was featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. On Friday night, well hear his Serenade for 2 Violins and Viola. Its not as dissonant as Bartok, and you can actually hear the Hungarian folk ideas that drive the piece. Even for those who have problems with 20th Century composers, this is worth a listen.
Kodaly: Serenade for 2 Violins and Viola, Op. 12, third movement
Isn’t that the bridge from which Patton urinated into the Rhine?
I like watching them move in that slow motion that they do, after a few minutes of them reaching for the next limb, they start me on a laughing jag.
Good evening, Connie, and thanks for the tributes to our troops. *HUGS*
How was your day? A good commute? Still warm, or any of the cold getting to you?
We are still mid 30s.
There’s your lion! d:o)
I had heard that they were fearless...sure does look like it!
Good evening, yarddog...happiest guy in the room. d:o)
I doubt that was the one. They were under command of Field Marshall Montgomery for a while but never Patton. They were a bastard outfit not assigned to any army but were mostly with General Simpson’s 9th Army.
My Father said one of the AA batteries claimed they shot down one of the jets. They asked the engineers to sign a form that they had done so but they refused because it flew away just fine.
The gunners said they had put some flak into it and it would never make it home but who knows.
Felix Mendelssohn was a contemporary of Schumann and Chopin, and he showed his musical talents in his childhood with pieces that are still in the repertory. The early chamber works are fun for the musicians. After a concert with this piece in the program, I went backstage to chat with Jimmy Ehnes, who had played violin in the piece.
You guys looked like you were having a lot of fun out there, I said.
Jimmy smiled and said, It was a lot of fun.
I put on my best frown and cleared my throat. Well, we cant have that, you know.
I love cracking musicians up.
This piece is scheduled for Friday night.
Mendelssohn: Quartet for Piano and Strings in B minor, Op. 3, third movement
Good evening, Judge...you of sharp senses and a heightened awareness.
Thanks for playing.
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Most of my life, people have told me that I am an ass.
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Wonderful Wednesday is almost here!
Well, they’re wrong! :)
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Read: Philippians 1:12-21
I once asked a counselor what the major issues were that brought people to him. Without hesitation he said, The root of many problems is broken expectations; if not dealt with, they mature into anger and bitterness.
In our best moments, its easy to expect that we will find ourselves in a good place surrounded by good people who like and affirm us. But life has a way of breaking those expectations. What then?
Stuck in jail and beset by fellow believers in Rome who didnt like him (Phil. 1:15-16), Paul remained surprisingly upbeat. As he saw it, God had given him a new mission field. While under house arrest, he witnessed to the guards about Christ, which sent the gospel into Caesars house. And even though those opposing him were preaching the gospel from wrong motives, Christ was being preached, so Paul rejoiced (v.18).
Paul never expected to be in a great place or to be well liked. His only expectation was that Christ will be magnified through him (v.20). He wasnt disappointed.
If our expectation is to make Christ visible to those around us regardless of where we are or who we are with, we will find those expectations met and even exceeded. Christ will be magnified.
Johannes Brahms rang the cash register when he took a series of Hungarian folk dances and arranged them for piano 4-handed duet for the home market. His good friend, violinist Joseph Joachim, not to be left out of the fun, arranged them for piano and violin, also for the home market. Jo did his own arrangement for full orchestra.
Antonin Dvorak (pronounced DVOR-zhock) saw the way to his own fortune and wrote a series of Slavonic Dances of his own invention for piano 4-hands. The result rang the cash register for him and ended his subsistence on grants from the Austro-Hungarian government that had been facilitated by his friend Brahms. He arranged this set of dances for full orchestra, and it is in this arrangement that the pieces are most often heard.
Would lightning strike twice? Tony sat down and wrote a second set of Slavonic Dances for piano 4-hands and repeated his success. Now he could live comfortably with his wife and many daughters, and spend less time teaching.
Orion Weiss and wife Anna Polonsky are in the first stages of marketing themselves as duo pianists, and Ive been advising them on some unconventional repertory. To my delight, they are performing the complete first set of Slavonic Dances, Opus 46, in the original piano duet format on Saturday night.
This dance is a furiant, a wild Bohemian dance in 3/4 time, where Tony works around the bar lines with duplets mixed in with the 3/4 beat. The two grade school students in this video are absolutely amazing!
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46/8
These teenagers are also something to watch.
Slavonic Dance in C minor, Op. 46/7
These two Asian teenage girls have a fine technique. This dance is a dumka, which is a dance alternating sad and happy moments.
Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op. 46/2
This is a straightforward minuet.
This is another furiant.
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