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Vikki Carr "It Must Be Him" on The David Frost Show

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Richard Strauss - A Biography: His Life and Places (Documentary)

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Richard Strauss: a biography in words and pictures. The places where Strauss worked and the most important people in his life (documentary). 00:00 Intro 00:35 Wunderkind years in Munich 01:51 Meeting with Richard Wagner 03:00 Friendship with von Bülow in Meiningen 04:48 Kapellmeister in Munich 05:29 2nd Kapellmeister in Weimar 06:13 Honorary assignment in Bayreuth 06:58 Not 1st Kapellmeister in Munich 07:54 Career jump in Berlin 10:19 Breakthrough as opera composer with Salome 11:54 Building of the villa in Garmisch 12:17 Strauss doubles with Elektra 13:48 Rosenkavalier: from avant-gardist to nostalgist 16:15 War years 16:49 Director at the Vienna State Opera 18:16 Foundation of the Salzburg Festival 18:43 Strauss in the first Nazi years 20:44 Reconciliation with Munich 21:07 Odyssey in Switzerland 23:25 Death in Garmisch

Respighi - Pines of Rome with standing ovation!!!

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Traumhafte Version von Claude Debussys "Claire de Lune"

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Claude Debussy "Claire de Lune" bei den BBC Proms gespielt von der gefeierten georgische Pianistin Khatia Buniatishvili. Das ganze Konzert ist hier zu sehen: https://www.myfidelio.at/bbc-proms-20...

"Philippine Classical Music"

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  "Philippine Classical Music" generally refers to 19th-20th century instrumental and vocal works by Filipinos made with the influence of Western music movements, notably of romanticism, post-romanticism, impressionism, and many others. Among the major Philippine contemporary composers are Francisco Santiago, Nicanor Abelardo, Antonio Molina, Col. Antonino Buenaventura, Lucio San Pedro, Alfredo Buenaventura, and Ryan Cayabyab Francisco Santiago Santiago  (January 29, 1889 – September 28, 1947) was a Filipino musician, sometimes called  The Father of Kundiman Art Song . Life Santiago was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines, to musically minded peasant parents, Felipe Santiago and Maria Santiago. In 1908, his first composition,  Purita , was dedicated to the first Carnival Queen, Pura Villanueva, who later married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw. He studied at the University of the Philippines (UP) Conservatory of Music, in i...

Filipino Composers

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Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (IMY2 Cover)

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