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I will keep most opinions to myself, though I should point out that it is a good thing that by performance time, the conductor's role is minimal (keeping time and adjusting the balance), because, quite simply, he is giving nothing. I sure hope he provided better cues during rehearsals.
I, of course, never show emotion in my conducting and facial gestures and always have proper technique.
Once in a graduate conductor course I took, after conducting the pick-up choir through some Hayden work, the prof came up and said, "the podium is not very large, but you really got a lot of mileage moving around on it."
I, of course, never show emotion in my conducting and facial gestures and always have proper technique.
Once in a graduate conductor course I took, after conducting the pick-up choir through some Hayden work, the prof came up and said, "the podium is not very large, but you really got a lot of mileage moving around on it."
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Video won't embed, go to FB to watch it, sorry. It was a couple of decades ago, but I was doing the touristy stuff in San Francisco's marina area and I stumbled across then Jefferson Airplane doing a street concert. Good times
Video won't embed, go to FB to watch it, sorry. It was a couple of decades ago, but I was doing the touristy stuff in San Francisco's marina area and I stumbled across then Jefferson Airplane doing a street concert. Good times
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Very expressive!
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Sergiu Celibidache along with Jascha Horenstein and some others were active in the post WW II period but got drowned out by the superstar conductors of that period when it came to commercial recordings.
When I was in college we few orchestra loving folk knew the names but had trouble finding any recordings. Nonesuch Records did some Mahler and a memorable Nielsen's 5th Symphony with Horenstein shortly before his death in 1973. Celibidache lived until 1996 but sabotaged his later career with acts of sexism in his treatment of orchestra members. Most of his now available recordings were not released until after his death.
When I was in college we few orchestra loving folk knew the names but had trouble finding any recordings. Nonesuch Records did some Mahler and a memorable Nielsen's 5th Symphony with Horenstein shortly before his death in 1973. Celibidache lived until 1996 but sabotaged his later career with acts of sexism in his treatment of orchestra members. Most of his now available recordings were not released until after his death.
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Wowee, some great music everyone is posting these days. I love reading all the comments and musings about the music, too. I was reminded of my favorite classical traveling music by one of Kate520's posts - I love to listen to Handel's Water Music Suites while I'm driving. Perfect traveling music. I think I heard a story those suites were commissioned for some trip on a river. If true, well, all I can say is Handel did indeed write music perfect for traveling, IMHO.
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Handel's "Water Music Suites" were commissioned by King George I to be played while George and his guests traveled by barge from Whitehall to Chelsea and back on July 17, 1717. In addition to the royal barge guests, crowds lined the Thames River to hear some of it. It was an immediate hit!RVInit wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:05 pm Wowee, some great music everyone is posting these days. I love reading all the comments and musings about the music, too. I was reminded of my favorite classical traveling music by one of Kate520's posts - I love to listen to Handel's Water Music Suites while I'm driving. Perfect traveling music. I think I heard a story those suites were commissioned for some trip on a river. If true, well, all I can say is Handel did indeed write music perfect for traveling, IMHO.
Years later in 1749 King George II commissioned Handel to write music to be played during a royal fireworks display. Another immediate hit!
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You want festival music, you got it....
ETA: The reason I like this piece so much is that when my dad got stationed at his last base for the final 10+ years of his career, it was home to the Band of the AF Reserve. Every 4th of July they would play this piece, but every other year they would have an artillery unit from OK come with cannons. When it happened my JR year in high school, my father, at this point a group First Sergeant, was liaison to the Army personnel, as UASF vehicles would needed to be used to transport the pieces from the base to the stadium and back. Because of this, my father and I got to coat the inside of the barrels to the pieces with MIL issue mosquito repellant so when they fired off they would make smoke rings.
ETA: The reason I like this piece so much is that when my dad got stationed at his last base for the final 10+ years of his career, it was home to the Band of the AF Reserve. Every 4th of July they would play this piece, but every other year they would have an artillery unit from OK come with cannons. When it happened my JR year in high school, my father, at this point a group First Sergeant, was liaison to the Army personnel, as UASF vehicles would needed to be used to transport the pieces from the base to the stadium and back. Because of this, my father and I got to coat the inside of the barrels to the pieces with MIL issue mosquito repellant so when they fired off they would make smoke rings.
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1812 Overture is always great, but I am also found of P.D.Q. Bach's (1807–1742)?, aka Professor Peter Schickele, 1712 Overture.
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Cooool, Frater!!!!
Many moons ago Eastman School of Music held its annual kazoo concert. The 1812 Overture was played with audience participation. One side of the audience were the cannons and shouted "BOOM!" while the other side were the bells and shouted "Ding! Dong!Ding! Dong!"
Many moons ago Eastman School of Music held its annual kazoo concert. The 1812 Overture was played with audience participation. One side of the audience were the cannons and shouted "BOOM!" while the other side were the bells and shouted "Ding! Dong!Ding! Dong!"
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I love musical comedy!!!! 1712 Overture!
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At an American Guild of Organists regional convention in Kalamazoo, MI, the entertainment at the dinner/business meeting was the collective attendees playing (sort of sight-reading, at least on Kazoo) a Bach Fugue, on kazoos. Kazoos in Kalamazoo.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:41 pm Many moons ago Eastman School of Music held its annual kazoo concert.
Musicians can find geeky ways to have fun (what, nobody here has been backstage before a choir performance and killed time with 5 or 6 of us attempting to sing the Beethoven Minuet in G, all a quarter step apart).
Thanks, Frater, always love listening to the 1812.
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"Water Music" is lovely, of course, as is most of the Handel canon.Volkonski wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 9:17 pm Handel's "Water Music Suites" were commissioned by King George I to be played while George and his guests traveled by barge from Whitehall to Chelsea and back on July 17, 1717. In addition to the royal barge guests, crowds lined the Thames River to hear some of it. It was an immediate hit!
Years later in 1749 King George II commissioned Handel to write music to be played during a royal fireworks display. Another immediate hit!
Here's a cover called "Flying off the Handel" performed by my favorite Handel cover band:
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V! Thank you for telling the story. I couldn't remember exactly who and why the Water Music Suites were commissioned, but I remembered it had something to do with a trip on a river by a king, but couldn't remember the details. But yes, it is just superb travelling music. I actually didn't know the suites were really and truly written to be performed while traveling up and down a river when I had figure out how much I enjoyed listening to them while driving. A friend got into my car one day after I had made an out of town trip and I still had the cassette (the old days) playing and he is the one who first told me he thought the music had actually been written for travelling. Thank you for the reminder of the actual details, V!
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Gosh, until now I thought that this was the sum total of the musical highlights from Kalamazoo:northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:58 pm
At an American Guild of Organists regional convention in Kalamazoo, MI, the entertainment at the dinner/business meeting was the collective attendees playing (sort of sight-reading, at least on Kazoo) a Bach Fugue, on kazoos. Kazoos in Kalamazoo.
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I've got a gal in Kalamazoo. It's my mommy.
Having been raised in Portage (burb of Kalamazoo) and received by Bachelor of Music for Western Michigan University (in Kalamazoo), I'll ignore the dig at Kalmazoo musicians, probably.
But, if we are going to do a little Glenn Miller and Kazoo, then maybe a group from the town such as Gold Company, the vocal jazz group from Western Michigan University (directed at the time by Steve Zegree, who sadly passed a few years ago). Sadly, no Nicholas Brothers in this one.
I did not sing with them when I was a student. I did not do vocal jazz stuff much back then and the time requirements were huge (instead, University Chorale, among other things).
Having been raised in Portage (burb of Kalamazoo) and received by Bachelor of Music for Western Michigan University (in Kalamazoo), I'll ignore the dig at Kalmazoo musicians, probably.
But, if we are going to do a little Glenn Miller and Kazoo, then maybe a group from the town such as Gold Company, the vocal jazz group from Western Michigan University (directed at the time by Steve Zegree, who sadly passed a few years ago). Sadly, no Nicholas Brothers in this one.
I did not sing with them when I was a student. I did not do vocal jazz stuff much back then and the time requirements were huge (instead, University Chorale, among other things).
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Forgot to carry this over from the Oldbow [may Cthulhu rest it's soul] but should I make it to old age, I know the cancer will be eating me alive, but still I will sit on the porch listening to music like this and classical piece, in between yelling at the kids to get off my lawn....
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She's got a YouTube channel full of awesome:
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And in case we do not have enough of a Gal in Kalamazoo by musicians in Kalamazoo, here is the Western Michigan University Bronco Marching Band in s some post-game fun.
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That was awesome!
So's this:
So's this:
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northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 9:30 pm I'll ignore the dig at Kalmazoo musicians, probably.
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I did not mean it as a dig, only an excuse to play a great Glen Miller track. (The WMU Marching Band playing it is just somewhere on the double-plus side of obviousness though).
Well, I for one HAVE sung at WMU, I think. Definately in Kalamazoo, and I think the hall was on the campus (was it WM College back then, dunno).I did not sing with them when I was a student. I did not do vocal jazz stuff much back then and the time requirements were huge (instead, University Chorale, among other things).
Edit: EDIT: WMC apparently changed to WMU in 1957 or so. I was there in '63 or '64. So it was WMU then.I was in the "Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus" a million years ago, and we toured the country every year - I did two tours. I am quite certain that we did a concert in Kalamazoo, and maybe South Bend the next night. We then drove south through a giant blizzard to some little town fin Missourri with the bus's suspension frozen and everyone on the bus except me, the driver, and the accompianist sick as dogs (the toilet was frozen too). We were 4 hours late, but the audience waited for us. Enough kids fought off the heaves for us to have one of the best concerts of the tour - standing ovations after each set. The town folks were great.
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Oh, I know. It gave me an excuse to dig out the same song from folks in Kalamazoo, because, of course, we all know that song.
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I’ve got some more water music for y’all. This is one cut, called River Run. (I think this version is a later remix)
In ‘86 my parents went on a river trip through the Grand Canyon with Mark Dubois, founder of Friends of the River, and others. One of the others was a member of the Paul Winter Consort, tasked with recording more canyon nature sounds for their upcoming video, Canyon, which they recorded on the Grand Canyon. Canyon wrens trills are so evocative of the GC. A lot of t was recorded in a side canyon.
In addition to traditional instruments, they drummed on their raft’s thwarts, on the bottoms of bail buckets, on oars and paddles, whatever sounded right to them.
I listen to it on hikes, but best is when I’m on a river trip myself.
Here’s the full album:
In ‘86 my parents went on a river trip through the Grand Canyon with Mark Dubois, founder of Friends of the River, and others. One of the others was a member of the Paul Winter Consort, tasked with recording more canyon nature sounds for their upcoming video, Canyon, which they recorded on the Grand Canyon. Canyon wrens trills are so evocative of the GC. A lot of t was recorded in a side canyon.
In addition to traditional instruments, they drummed on their raft’s thwarts, on the bottoms of bail buckets, on oars and paddles, whatever sounded right to them.
I listen to it on hikes, but best is when I’m on a river trip myself.
Here’s the full album: