Sunday musical offering
April 11, 2021
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Musical offering for Easter Sunday
April 4, 2021
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Musical offering for Good Friday
April 2, 2021
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Happy birthday, Joseph
March 31, 2021In honor of the birthday of Franz Joseph Haydn ((1732-1809), here is “Achieved Is the Glorious Work” from The Creation.
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Sunday musical offering
March 28, 2021
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Happy Passover
March 27, 2021
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It’s been a long cold lonely winter
March 23, 2021
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Happy birthday, Johann
March 21, 2021In honor of the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), here is the Gigue from the French Suite No. 5, BWV816.
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Happy birthday, Modest
March 21, 2021In honor of the birthday of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), here is “Gopak” from the opera Sorochinsky Fair, arranged for string quartet.
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Happy birthday, Nikolai
March 18, 2021Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed the music for The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan in 1899-1900. The libretto was based on a poem with the same unwieldy title by Aleksandr Pushkin. The plot involves a rather gullible tsar, his wife the tsarina, her two jealous and vengeful sisters, an enchantress bent on breaking up the tsar’s marriage, a magical squirrel, a swan who is really a princess in disguise, and a homesick prince whom the swan magically transforms into a bumblebee so he can go pay a little visit to his estranged father. One can’t help wondering if Nikolai Andreyevich had any inkling that the brief orchestral interlude evoking the bumblebee’s flight would become one of his greatest hits. Here it is in its piano version, played by Yuja Wang.
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