En français All this month on my Friday Blog and Podcast I have been exploring the theme of story telling. Of course, the most popular form of story telling in music is the tone poem, an invention that - as I explained in my post on Symphonie Fantastique - in one of the key contributions of the Romantic era. A toine poem is, by definition, the antithesis of form, it is a pure musical canvas, used to paint a particular story, express emotions, all those things we routinely associate ...
Updated Apr-23-2013 at 12:15 by itywltmt
En français Sometimes, I have presented CDs cover-to-cover on Once Upon the Internet, and this month’s installment is one of those occasions, featuring a 1987 CD I downloaded from MP3.COM more than 10 years ago. The CD features a then 20-year old Shauna Rolston accompanied by pianist Menahem Pressler in a chamber recording of two of the most popular French sonatas (the sonatas in A by Gabriel Fauré and César Franck), but transcribed for the cello. Shauna ...
Updated Apr-16-2013 at 11:20 by itywltmt
En français I had originally programmed this post for our Organ and Lent series, but decided to push it off to make room for my Marie-Claire Alain post. Let's call this some bonus organ, shall we... According to Britannica online, Belgian-French composer César Franck “was the chief figure in a movement to give French music ...
Updated Apr-09-2013 at 14:15 by itywltmt
For awhile now, we have had a fairly popular message thread on the forum "http://www.talkclassical.com/15023-keep-looking-up.html". Of course, music and the bodies that occupy the night skies is a combination that conjures up many possibilities, like this one... This thread is what inspired a montage on my weekly ...
Updated May-01-2013 at 11:32 by itywltmt
En français The rules will be kept simple: here’s what I found, here’s where I found it, here’s a couple of sentences about it and (possibly) some opinions. Not unlike Olympic Figure Skating, I will provide two sets of marks (letters A to D) on sound quality (SQ) and on overall impression (OI). These grades are entirely subjective, but here are some guidelines: About “sound quality”: my point of reference is my iPod (160 GB iPod Classic) with standard ...
Updated Mar-26-2013 at 10:46 by itywltmt
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