Posted on 06/22/2012 5:59:49 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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LOVE YOU CANTEEN DJ'S!!! Thanks for your hard work! GodBlessUSA; mylife; AZAmericonnie; Kathy In Alaska; Ms.Behavin; drumbo; StarCMC; EsmeraldaA; ConorMacNessa; acad1228; LibertyValance; Cindy; Starwise; 50mm; gomez; iron munro; publius (and me) YOU ROCK OUT LOUD!! God bless our troops!!! |
Good evening, Connie....the contractor came at 4:59p...LOL!
Took a look and will get us an estimate after a class he is attending next week. Really nice guy.
I’m pleased with both the contractors that were here today.
Good evening Luvie....I LOL’ed when I realized what I had done. I hope you had a good day & yes....ice cream sounds good!
Howdy, (((Connie)))
Yeah...the day was good and the best part was the nap I had
after getting home from work. LOL!
Hope you and T-Man have a great weekend! :)
Johannes Brahms had a love/hate relationship with the idea of a permanent job conducting an orchestra. He knew he could do it, but he also knew that the day-to-day minutiae of being a music director would drive him batty, especially in a town like Vienna that was full of musical intrigue. Brahms had gotten the job as conductor at the Vienna Music Guild with the understanding that he would give his audience a strong dose of Bach and other difficult composers. Brahms demanded and got total control, and the first thing he did was fire almost 40 amateur musicians and replace them with hardened professionals. Wily old Josef Hellmesberger stayed on as concertmaster, and now there were more rehearsals. The quality of performance at the Music Guild concerts shot up spectacularly, and this permitted Brahms to give the Viennese a steady diet of Bach, Handel and Cherubini. Of course there was plenty of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. There was not yet an understanding of authentic performance practice of that earlier era much had been forgotten since the arrival of Wagner so Brahms treatment of the Baroque was more modern than it should have been.
Brahms always memorized the pieces he conducted and never worked from a score. Sometimes the results were uneven, but his wit and professionalism made the rehearsals fun. He was highly regarded and became the great musical tastemaker of Vienna.
In 1873, the 40 year old Brahms ran across an old tune folk known as the St. Anthony Chorale that was mistakenly attributed to a number of composers from Pleyel to Haydn. He worked it up as a set of variations for two pianos and then orchestrated them. This is the form in which they are best known today, and it is one of the most beloved pieces for orchestra by Brahms.
I ran into one of these variations being used in the early Eighties as bumper music at a Super Bowl broadcast. That was a shock!
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~~Tunes For The Troops~~ |
Laura Nyro for those who can't access the jukeoxes. |
Want more information about the artists we play? Perhaps you'd like to buy concert tickets or their CDs? Click the links provided at the top of the thread for more information! |
~~Tunes For The Troops~~ |
Laura Nyro for those who can't access the juke boxes. |
Want more information about the artists we play? Perhaps you'd like to buy concert tickets or their CDs? Click the links provided at the top of the thread for more information! |
Jeez, Janey.....it’s too hot for blurry screens!! Thanks for the great pictures of our soldiers and our allies soldiers.
G’day...((HUGS))...a fun weekend planned?
So delighted your pleased with them both....now to see if your pleased with their bids! :)
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