And thank you, Anthony, for your service to our country.
Posted on 05/23/2015 5:01:06 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Thanks!
I used to listen to “The execution of Stepan Razin” almost compulsively (Love that Bass Voice) but was not familiar with this piece.
I remember listening to it over and over, going to sleep, one hot summer with no A/C. The white bedroom curtains would flutter in the darkness.
That was a good summer. I was a teenager. The LP wasn’t very powerful, so you could hear the record getting a little worn after a while.
But the melodies. And the story of the symphony itself. Kind of like Beethoven’s 3rd. Or 5th. Or 9th.
Ours was a Brahms, Bach and Beethoven house.
I am praying for you right now, ConorMacNessa.
My folks went to hear a man play the piano in the basement of their church.
This man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXGSfJn3nKQ
It was long ago now, but I have always been amazed at the idea.
I was in the Guitar center today and they had a HUGE selection of VINYL RECORDS!
(I felt SO validated!)
The first movement of his Eighth Symphony.
Glad I could help! Vinyl has its place. Good vinyl is just that.
And thank you, Anthony, for your service to our country.
I have such memories of vinyl...opening the cellophane carefully so I could s-l-i-d-e the LP out without tearing it, The inner sleeve crisp and new, handling the record just by the edges, and placing the needle oh-so=carefully on the edge....and then...NEW music that i had never heard before.
There was even an aroma...not quite as strong and unforgettable as film developer (I had my own darkroom at 16), but really, really cool!
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I went through a serious Van Karajan time. He really did good work.
On the other hand, I can remember wanting to go up and YANK the baton out of this one guy’s hand and conduct Beethoven’s 3rd as it should be. I was REALLY tempted.
Remember how we were needle nuts? You had to have the right one, the best balance, that lightest touch. It was about as bad as comparing Tandberg to Klipsch speakers.
Van Karajan was my Dad’s favorite conductor of Beethoven’s Symphonies.
Charles Ives (1874-1954) founded Metropolitan Life and created the concept of life insurance as a tool of estate planning. His secret life as a composer was played out at home and at a church in New York where was organist.
His religious settings stretch the boundaries of tonality. This was a student exercise from his years at the Yale Music School. Half the chorus sings in G minor and the other half in C Major. It’s hard to make bi-tonality work – it’s still illegal in some states – but Charlie does a reasonable job.
I still have my Klipsch Speakers.
KJV, Psalm 121:
1 (A Song of degrees.) I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
I think that is still illegal in Florida!
(That is probably a good thing!) LOL!
Well, Dear FRiends, i have a church Service and a recital both on the same day...tomorrow (With set-up and equipment breakdown included!) so I am going to bed early.
Good Night!
(((HUGS)))
Come Holy Spirit
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.
O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.
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