Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Yuja Wang: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
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Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Myung-Whun Chung
September 8, 2019(George Enescu Festival) Sala Palatului, Grand Palace Hall
00:00 I. Allegro ma non tanto
16:42 II. Intermezzo (Adagio)
27:24 III. Finale (Alla breve)
Jose Mari Chan brings a heartwarming Christmas concert to town
Published November 2, 2022, 10:06 AM
One voice is all it takes to herald the arrival of the holiday season in town. The music of Jose Mari Chan has undeniably become the official soundtrack of Christmas to Filipinos for many years.
This December, get in the full Christmas spirit with “Christmas in our Hearts: Jose Mari Chan in Perfect CompanY”, a one-night Christmas concert with the legendary musician Jose Mari Chan at the Newport Performing Arts Theater on Dec. 9, 8 PM. Joining him in bringing a merry night of carols is the Philippines’ premier vocal group, The CompanY.
Chan has indeed become synonymous with Christmas, having “Christmas in our Hearts” as the anthem of the Filipino’s Yuletide celebrations and the biggest Christmas OPM album in history. Since its release in 1990, it has sold over 20 million units, earning a Double Diamond Record Award. Among his other holiday tunes that have now become classics are “Going Home to Christmas” and “A Perfect Christmas”. Each year, Filipinos look forward to hearing these on the radio or in malls, restaurants, and holiday parties.
The CompanY, meanwhile, is an acapella pop group that started in the 80s who popularized the songs “Everlasting Love,” “Muntik Na Kitang Minahal,” and “Now That I Have You.” The group is currently composed of Annie Quintos, Moy Ortiz, OJ Mariano, and Sweet Plantado.
Celebrate a heartwarming Christmas to the tunes of Jose Mari Chan, together with The CompanY, in “Christmas in our Hearts: Jose Mari Chan in Perfect CompanY at Newport Performing Arts Theater on Dec. 9, 8 PM. Tickets are now available at all TicketWorld and SM Tickets outlets: P8,000 (PLATINUM) P7,000 (SVIP), P6,000 (VIP), P4,500 (GOLD), P3,500 (SILVER), and P1,500 (BRONZE). For inquiries, contact the Newport World
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Monday, October 31, 2022
Unforgettable
Unforgettable
Beegie Adair
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Unforgettable · Beegie Adair
The Nat King Cole Collection
℗ 1998 Green Hill Productions
Released on: 1998-01-01
Producer: Jack Jezzro
Associated Performer, Piano: Beegie Adair
Associated Performer, Bass Guitar: Roger Spencer
Associated Performer, Drums: Chris Brown
Composer Lyricist: Irving Gordon
André Rieu - Nearer, My God, to Thee (live in Amsterdam)
Begin the Beguine (Remastered)
Begin the Beguine (Remastered)
Benny Goodman - Topic
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Begin the Beguine (Remastered) · Benny Goodman
Collection of the Best Big Bands - Benny Goodman, Vol. 2
℗ 1944 Victor P-146
Released on: 2018-02-04
Composer: C. Porter
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Sunday, October 30, 2022
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1990 Live Video
Friday, October 28, 2022
Who Got It Right and Who Got It Wrong? Critics and Composers
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Here, John Gregory, writing in 1766 in his A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with Those of the Animal World, had this to say about what composer?
‘[The style of COMPOSER] sometimes pleases by its spirit and a wild luxuriancy … but possesses too little of the elegance and pathetic expression of music to remain long in the public taste.’
Hmmm. So we want a mid-18th century composer who had spirit and a sense of luxury but lacked elegance…. Mozart? Hummel? No, they’re too late. Gregory was referring to the style of the music of Haydn, who, of all composers of his era, has remained in the public taste where so many of his contemporaries have vanished.
Hardy: Joseph Haydn, 1791
We have two composers with two very different views of conductors. The first, a composer, suffered poor performances in the hands of bad conductors:
‘Conducting is a black art.’
The other, a conductor himself, downplayed the difficulties in a letter to his 10-year-old sister:
‘It’s easy. All you have to do is wiggle a stick.’
It was Tchaikovsky who held the first opinion, given in 1909, and Sir Thomas Beecham in the second quote.
Reutlinger: P.I. Tchaikovsky, c. 1888
Sir Thomas Beecham, 1948
Richard Strauss, on the other hand, felt that certain sections of the orchestra needed to be quelled at all times:
‘Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight. If you can hear them at all, they are too loud.’
Igor Stravinsky , himself a composer and a conductor, saw danger in the field of conducting:
‘”Great” conductors, like “great” actors, soon become unable to play anything but themselves.’
and
‘Conducting is semaphoring, after all.’
Richard Strauss conducting
Stravinsky conducting
He also viewed conductors as the ‘lapdogs’ of musical life…which poses an interesting question of which side of Stravinsky was making that statement!
Very few composers or performers had anything good to say about critics.
Richard Wagner thought that ‘the immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished,’ whereas Beecham saw the problem as one of lack of musical feeling, saying ‘…so often they have the score in their hands and not in their heads.’
Aaron Copland thought that ‘if a literary many puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong’.
And the critics strike back:
George Bernard Shaw, when accused of being too critical: ‘No doubt I was unjust; who am I that I should be just?’
Eduard Hanslick, who wielded great power as critic, took an uncritical view of himself: ‘When I wish to annihilate, then I do annihilate.’
Eduard Hanslick
Oscar Wilde found Chopin to be too emotional: ‘After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.’
Sometimes composers are most caustic about their contemporaries. Wagner wondered this about the legacy of Rossini: ‘After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?’
Stravinsky pondered about South American music: ‘Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa-Lobos?’
Some composers write about what they are proudest of. Modest Mussorgsky, known for his songs as much as his symphonic music and opera, said in a letter in 1868 ‘my music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades’.
Puccini, understating his talents simply said ‘God touched me with His little finger and said “Write for the theatre, only for the theatre.”’
Giacomo Puccini
Rossini, never one to understate his skill, remarked ‘Give me a laundry-list and I’ll set it to music.’
Stravinsky, who was often so far ahead of his contemporaries musically as to be in another world, said ‘Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.’
Elisabeth Luytens, who parlayed her contemporary sound into really effective music for British horror films, called her own style ‘eerie weirdness’.
Elizabeth Lutyens
Opinions, opinions … everyone has opinions. Some of them can make us ponder (‘Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour’ – Rossini), others make us laugh (‘Hell is full of musical amateurs’ – George Bernard Shaw), and others make us angry (‘There are two kinds of music: German music and bad music.’ – H.L. Mencken) – what’s your opinion?
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