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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Williams – The Drums of War
Not actually the Drums of War, but rather the Battle over Courscant by John Williams.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Come away, come away, death – Roger Quilter
Browsing through the English Art songs, I like this one by Quilter. Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Lascia ch’io pianga
Its melody is first found in act 3 of Handel’s 1705 opera Almira as a sarabande;[1] the score for this can be seen on page 81 of Vol. 55[2] of Friedrich Chrysander. Handel then used the tune for the aria “Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa”, or “Leave the Thorn,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Beethoven’s Third Symphony – Third and Forth Movements
The theme of triumphal music continues here at DWR.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Piazzolla – Primavera porteña from “Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas”
In 1965, Piazzolla began writing Cuatro Estraciones Porteñas, a homage to both the tango and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and completed the work in 1970. The Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, also known as the Estaciones Porteñas or The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, are a set of four tango compositions written
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – What I’m Singing This Weekend.
Dress rehearsal tonight, been practising like a mad fool. We have a full line up. Starting with Rheinberger’s lovely Stabat Mater: Then a Schubert Mass : Some Mendelssohn: And some Mozart : It is going to be a great concert. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – “Erotica” Variations
Very serious selection here today. Let us appreciate the solemn nature of this composition by PDQ Bach.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Classical Interlude – Piano Piece with Perfect Harmony
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Enya – “Only Time”
I like this song so much that you get to sample the original and a choral arrangement of the work. Go go Enya. 🙂 Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Only Time, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Musical Interlude – Prelude to War – Bear Mccreary
Bear Mccreary loves Taiko drumming. So say we all. This track was first played on the re-imagined “Battlestar Galactica” television series during the season 2 episode “Pegasus”, for its final, climactic scene. After Battlestar Galactica Flight Deck Chief Galen Tyrol and Pilot Karl Agathon are arrested, on the orders of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Modéré” de Georg-Philipp Telemann
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Piazzolla’s Oblivion
Piazzolla’s nuevo tango was distinct from the traditional tango in its incorporation of elements of jazz, its use of extended harmonies and dissonance, its use of counterpoint, and its ventures into extended compositional forms. As Argentine psychoanalyst Carlos Kuri has pointed out, Piazzolla’s fusion of tango with this wide range
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Though My Soul is Set in Darkness
Just came back from a vacation/choral music workshop. This is one of the round we sang. Simple, haunting, and beautiful. Appreciate the difficulty of A cappella and maintain a steady tempo and intonation. ( I know I certainly did) 🙂 ——- Sarah Williams’s poetry is where the text for the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Straighten Up and Fly Right – The Andrew Sisters
“Straighten Up and Fly Right” is a 1943 song written by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills and performed by The King Cole Trio. The single was the trio’s most popular single reaching number one on the Harlem Hit Parade for ten nonconsecutive weeks. The single also peaked at number
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Andrews Sisters – Rum and Coke Cola
Love the rich vocals. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Andrews Sisters, The 40’s, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Imagine
A change of pace, let’s imagine for a minute that Lennon’s Imagine piece was written in the Baroque period. It could sound a little like this. Filed under: Music Tagged: Cross Over, Imagine, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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