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Posted on 11/18/2016 5:50:44 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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A regret from childhood...not learning to play the piano when I had the chance, and the piano. I had a keyboard for a few years in adulthood and really enjoyed it.
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
WOOHOO! Da house is rockin' tonight!
Howdy, Feathers. You hit the hay early and I was later than usual getting here. :-( Sorry I missed you.
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Lesley Gore ~ It's My Party
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It was only after Salieri’s death in 1825 that Schubert could study Beethoven’s music without feeling guilt. This crash course in Beethoven influenced Schubert’s final quartets, piano trios, sonatas, symphonies, his last mass and his great string quintet.
By now Schubert had served on the board of the Music Guild, served as president for a year and had access to the guild’s concert hall and orchestra. But in rehearsing this monumental symphony, the musicians complained that it was too difficult for them to play. Schubert always had bad luck when it came to concerts of his music, and he was forced to substitute his most trivial juvenile symphony for the symphony he hoped would put him on the map. Decades after Schubert’s death, Felix Mendelssohn would premiere the Ninth Symphony in a cut down version. This is yet another mature voice for Schubert, totally different from his early symphonies or even his previous mature symphony. This is a composer on a mission.
This video of the finale starts a bit late, but I’ve chosen it because of its use of period instruments and Minkowski’s conducting, which is phenomenal. Note the wooden flutes, brass instruments without valves and string instruments using gut, not steel.
The first subject is in C Major, the tonic key for the symphony.
1:35 – The second subject is in G Major, the expected key.
3:47 – Minkowski skips the exposition repeat, which is good; Schubert’s first ending is not convincing. As the development begins, the first thing you hear are the flutes and oboes playing the “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Then Schubert actually develops the Beethoven theme before settling into developing his own material. On one level, it’s a very short development, but Schubert has a surprise waiting.
5:50 – Schubert should recap in C Major, but he recaps in E-flat. Is this a wrong key recapitulation? Yet more development? Learning from Beethoven, Schubert has blurred the line between development and recap. It’s a mixture of both. He runs through the keys like a development section: C minor, F Major, F minor, and then a decisive cadence in E Major.
7:20 – From E Major, just two chords place the second subject in the correct key of C Major.
9:25 – Like the Third Symphony, the Ninth uses repetitions as the basis of the finale’s coda, but this time Schubert has learned what to do with them. Each repetition ratchets up the tension, tighter and tighter, until –
10:11 – The release is absolutely hair raising. Stabbing Cs from the cellos and basses blow you away. Schubert races through that passage a second time.
10:40 – The resolution uses its own repeats to tie it together. Minkowski closes it decisively without lingering on the fermata at the end.
Howdy, radu! Did y’all have a fun date-night? Has it cooled off there yet? Any rain?
We’re chilly here in OKC....40 and will dip down to about 30....clear as a bell!
One more day with my sweeties and then it’s homeward bound on Sunday. *sigh*
Howdy, LUV.
It was a good date night. The last night our old hangout is going to be open for a while so we stayed out a little longer than usual.
No rain here yet. It’s just reaching I-65 now and we’ll see if it holds together or falls apart this time. Temp’s still in the 60s at the moment but will drop once the front passes through. brrrr!
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Harry Nilsson ~ Everybody's Talkin'
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Howdy, Kathy.
TGIF and I’d say you’re more than ready for it! :-)
Get your winter quilts out! They are the only thing that will really keep me warm. My MIL, her mom and her mom’s mom made ‘em....and we have had them passed down to us. Thank goodness! LOL!
It’s always a bummer when a favorite hangout closes. Like...I have always stopped at a DQ in a small town on my way up here, and when I pulled into the parking lot and got out....the door was locked, it was dark inside and the furniture was gone! I felt cheated. LOL!
I sleep on a heating pad every night because of my bum back and that keeps me plenty warm on cold nights.
It’s when I’m up and about that I have to dress in layers because this old house isn’t well-insulated. Not looking forward to it because I don’t like feeling so bound up.
At least it isn’t going to be too cold except at night for the next week. But it’ll be a far sight cooler than we’ve been the past few days.
It’s only closing temporarily. The owner’s moving to a new location and we just have to wait until he has it ready.
There’s always our original hangout to go to in the interim but smokers have to go outside to the beer garden to smoke. This isn’t the time of year for that!
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