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Dead Wild Roses: DWR Service Note – Vacactions, Colds, Hell Divers 2
Good morning faithful readers. I must apologize for the blogging interruption. The plan was to go on a lovely choral retreat to the Banff Centre – including a attending a Master Class on solo singing, and workshops with the estimable Lona Larson, Eva Bostrand, and Micheal Zaugg. It was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Tchaikovsky – Hymn of the Cherubim
“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul’s moods.” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A DWR Holiday Wish – Arvo Pärt – Da pacem Domine
Give us peace… It is a wish I think we can all get behind. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all. ‘Give Us Peace In Our Time, Oh Lord.’
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Christmas Baroque Interlude – Bach – Mass in B minor BWV 232
What else can one listen to as Christmas time approaches? Enjoy my friends. Sublime, extreme and all-embracing… only superlatives will do to describe Bach’s Mass in B minor, the ‘Hohe Messe’, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach. In between an awe-inspiring Kyrie and the jubilant final
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica
Winter is taking its time in coming this year to my neck of the woods. Let’s preview the frosty winter spirit soon to be gracing our province. 🙂 Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony N°. 7) 00:00 1. 1st Movement: Prelude- Andante maestoso* 10:13 2.. 2nd Movement: Scherzo- Moderato 16:42 3. 3rd Movement:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Concierto de Aranjuez
The Concierto de Aranjuez was inspired by the gardens at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, the spring resort palace and gardens built by Philip II in the last half of the 16th century and rebuilt in the middle of the 18th century by Ferdinand VI. The work attempts to transport
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