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- Dec 2013
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For anyone who's interested in my day job (!), here's a live stream of this week's concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVSnZzLffcc
It's on youtube not iPlayer, so I think it should be viewable in any country. Please note it's an unedited live stream not an edited TV programme, but if you have a couple of hours to spare and like Wagner..... ;-)
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Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - duet for 4 hands
https://youtu.be/X2vck7GvXBw?t=24
Same composition - harp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMm4tOemQqYLast edited by Satchmo Distel; 30-11-2019, 17:46.
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W.A. Mozart - Serenade For Winds; K 361; 3rd Movement (from the "Amadeus" Soundtrack) was my first gateway to his genius and grace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-HF1G_bqg
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Mozart's range of excellence, from piano sonatas to church music to opera, and the ease with which he switched between those forms, seems to be unique.
Chamber example: Clarinet quintet slow movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVl9iayyBk
Church example: Requiem Mozart - Kyrie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAeoV4nBjho
Opera - Queen of the Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBeBjqKSGQ
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- Dec 2013
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- NW Glasgow (aka Bearsden)
- Partick Thistle, Scotland, Leeds United
- Choc Digestive (milk)
Here's the latest livestream from my orchestra...contains two of the best 'classical' pieces of the twentieth century (though they were written about a year apart) - Barber's Adagio and Shostakovich's 5th Symphony. The Barber starts at about 14:00 in and the Shostakovich about 1:17:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuqXUJzNlwI
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I sometimes house-sit for/walk the dog of an international conductor, and having glimpsed just a fraction of his papers I can scarcely imagine what the full mass must look like. I've never thought before that 'orchestra librarian' is a thing, but the more I think about it the more necessary I can imagine it must be!
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Originally posted by Various Artist View PostI sometimes house-sit for/walk the dog of an international conductor, and having glimpsed just a fraction of his papers I can scarcely imagine what the full mass must look like. I've never thought before that 'orchestra librarian' is a thing, but the more I think about it the more necessary I can imagine it must be!
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- Dec 2013
- 1589
- NW Glasgow (aka Bearsden)
- Partick Thistle, Scotland, Leeds United
- Choc Digestive (milk)
Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostI had never considered this before, but conductors must have to maintain a library of their own orchestral scores.
Which is far from trivial given their travel schedules.
It's only a matter of time before everything becomes digital, of course, at which point I will probably be out of a job - or at least I will probably be replaced by an IT person who has some musical knowledge. I have only once (so far) heard of a screen freezing during a performance so that the players had to actually stop playing.... I try not to mention it too often to my bosses....
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Blimey, indeed. My instinct would be that it's one area where you'd really want to keep things on paper because of the fear of precisely such a scenario occurring. It's certainly hard to imagine someone conducting off a tablet screen at, say, the Proms.
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Originally posted by Kevin S View PostThat's fabulous. Is the dog called Adiemus by any chance...?
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Nice thread idea.
took me to the age of 35 for something to grab me. Classic radio in the uk tends to play the more marchy, flag wavey kind of classical that can put somebody off.
not this though.Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.Last edited by Freestyling buck wilding Stijn Stijnen; 14-02-2020, 13:03.
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- Dec 2013
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- NW Glasgow (aka Bearsden)
- Partick Thistle, Scotland, Leeds United
- Choc Digestive (milk)
Originally posted by Various Artist View PostHaha, no it's not him. It's a conductor who works with the National Orchestra of Wales among others, but whose main roles are with orchestras in Brittany and in the Dakotas somewhere, so he's obviously away overseas a lot of the time. So it's when his wife's away with him that I look after the house, or if she's busy that I occasionally walk the dog. She's called Pippa. The dog, I mean.
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- Dec 2013
- 1589
- NW Glasgow (aka Bearsden)
- Partick Thistle, Scotland, Leeds United
- Choc Digestive (milk)
Originally posted by Various Artist View PostBlimey, indeed. My instinct would be that it's one area where you'd really want to keep things on paper because of the fear of precisely such a scenario occurring. It's certainly hard to imagine someone conducting off a tablet screen at, say, the Proms.
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Crikey, it's not like pianists don't have anything to do with their feet, either. Suppose you accidentally tried to sustain a chord by pedalling the app by mistake?
And yes, I got my North & South... states mixed up, didn't I? Grant Llewellyn anyway, yes, not Karl Jenkins. I almost put Carl Llewellyn then by mistake, but he won the 1992 Grand National on Party Politics.
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I've always had a fondness for the 'English Pastoral' composers, particularly the big three - Vaughan Williams, Delius and Holst. For the last few days I've listened to little else; it seems the perfect accompaniment to lounging on the dining-room sofa with the bi-fold doors flung wide open, looking out onto the garden and the woods beyond, cold beer in hand and the hot weather providing the perfect excuse to stay right there.
Vaughan Williams - 'In The Fen Country'.
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