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Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet 7 in f♯, Op. 108 (1960). Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet 8 in c, Op. 110 (1960). - The black ghost of nothingness emerging in the half-shadows of the silhouette of emptiness. Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet 7 in … Continue reading
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Tagged Dmitri Shostakovich, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 3, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 4, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 5, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 6, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 7, Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet 8, Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony 4, Donald Mitchell, Eric Blom, Frederick Delius, Hans Keller, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, It is good here, Joseph Stalin, Music, Peter Tchaikovsky, Piano Quintet, Robert Schumann, Robert Schumann Piano Quartet, Robert Schumann Piano Quintet, Sergei Rachmaninov, String quartet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zdes' Horosho
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Sibelius, Jan: Melodramas: Näcken (1888); O, om du sett (1888); Ett ensamt skidspår (1925); Svartsjunkans nätter (1893). A form interestingly set, with the beauty of Swedish language to assist. Easily the most interesting is Svartsjunkans nätter, on a text of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, set for recitation, soprano, and piano trio. … Continue reading
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Tagged Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Jan Sibelius, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Music
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Fidelity & Its Inebriates: Ernest Dowson, Frederick Delius, & The Days of Wine and Roses
The phrase “days of wine and roses” is Ernest Dowson’s, from his 1896 Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam, which is a line from Horace’s First Ode, and which translates as ‘The brief sum of life forbids us … Continue reading
Virgin Ring
While still in a Wagnerian intoxication induced by the Seattle Opera, I wrote this little piece in the fall of 2005, to record several personal Leitmotive of a Virgin Ring I am still recovering from the Seattle Ring. I hope … Continue reading
Notes on the Melancholy Metaphysics of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann
Les Contes d’Hoffmann is Jacques Offenbach’s unfinished opera, based loosely on stories by the influential writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet is also based on a story of Hoffmann’s. Hoffmann, who was an adept musician as well as writer, is … Continue reading
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Tagged Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Christopher Campestrini, Don Giovanni, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edmonton, edmonton opera, Edmonton Symphony, Ernest Guirard, France, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Jacques Offenbach, Music, Prussia, Second Empire, Tales of Hoffmann, Teiya Kasahara, Third Republic
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The Cantatas of J.S. Bach – BWV 4, on the First Day of Easter – Loss and Redemption
An early and masterful work, composed in 1707, Cantata 4 is for the first day of Easter (Good Friday), and has as its subject the death of Christ after his crucifixion on Calvary. The ensuing Sunday, which is the third day … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Dürr, Andrea Mantegna, Bach cantata, Calvary, Cantata 4, chorale melody, Christ, church, Easter, Good Friday, Gospel According to St. Mark, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Jesus, Johann Sebastian Bach, Liturgical year, Martin Luther, Music, religion, Resurrection of Jesus, Theology
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9 August 2002 – Vancouver, BC – Climbing Mountains, Considering Handel
Friday, August 9, 2002, 4:22 pm, Vancouver, BC Dinner music the last week: Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies and Opera Paraphrases; Handel, Opp. 3, 4, and 6/1-2, and the Fireworks music; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis; Chopin, polonaises. Listened with care to the second … Continue reading
Posted in 10 Years Ago, British Columbia, Canada, Journals, Music, Vancouver
Tagged British Columbia, Canada, Gay Pride, George Frideric Handel, Handel, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Hiking, Hiroshima, Israel in Egypt, Mount Seymour, Music, Mystery Lake, Mystery Peak, nature, Oppenheimer Park, outdoors, Percy Young, Symphony of Fire, Vancouver, Zhang Yimou
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