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  • WorldView Episode 23: Charles Villiers Stanford

    Jul 31st, 2022 | By Hinke Younger
    Tags: Charlottesvilleclassical, Classical music, Hinke Younger, Programming, WorldView

         An illustrious composer in his own right, Charles Villiers Stanford is mainly remembered as the instructor of some of the most famous classical composers of the last two hundred years. In his 200+ opus works, Villiers Stanford epitomized the traditional European classical style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.      […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Summerof78s Week 4

    Jul 29th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, Classical music, Giacomo Puccini, Johannes Brahms, Modest Mussorgsky, Twitter

    Classical music performers have been recording for over a century. The Classics a Day team declares July the Summer of 78. Or rather, the summer of 78s. For July, post recordings that were originally issued on 78 rpm discs. Many legendary performances have been captured on 78 rpm. And more than a few 20th Century […]

  • WorldView Episode 22: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

    Jul 24th, 2022 | By Hinke Younger
    Tags: Charlottesvilleclassical, Classical music, Hinke Younger, Programming, WorldView

         Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize in Music, is a postmodern composer known for the melodic structure of her large-scale works and the depth of her smaller compositions. Born in Miami, Florida in 1939, Zwilich took up violin at a young age. She studied music at Florida […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Summerof78s Week 3

    Jul 22nd, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #Summerof78s, Franz Schubert, George Frederic Handel, Giacomo Puccini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Twitter

    Classical music performers have been recording for over a century. The Classics a Day team declares July the Summer of 78. Or rather, the summer of 78s. For July, post recordings that were originally issued on 78 rpm discs. Many legendary performances have been captured on 78 rpm. And more than a few 20th Century […]

  • The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour – Henry Mancini

    Jul 20th, 2022 | By Ken Nail
    Tags: Film music, film scores, henry mancini, ken nail, soundtracks, The silver, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour

    Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on CharlottesvilleClassical.org, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores. t’s convenient – and easy – to lump the music of Henry Mancini (1924-1994) into […]

  • Adrian Butterfield excels with Leclair Violin Sonatas

    Jul 19th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Adrian Butterfield, Baroque music, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, Jean-Marie Leclair, Naxos

    Jean-Marie Leclair was one of the most pre-eminent violinists of his day. Each collection of sonatas he published advanced the art of violin playing. The third book from 1734 challenges the player’s dexterity. The fast movements are sometimes just a blur of notes. Leclair frequently uses double stops, and not always with the most convenient […]

  • WorldView Episode 21: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Jul 17th, 2022 | By Hinke Younger
    Tags: Charlottesvilleclassical, Classical music, Hinke Younger, Programming, WorldView

           Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, one of history’s best known composers of African descent, dedicated a large portion of his career to preserving traditional African melodies and themes in his music. In 1905, the composer wrote: “What Brahms has done for the Hungarian folk music, Dvorak for the Bohemian, and Grieg for the Norwegian, I […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Summerof78s Week 2

    Jul 15th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, Franz Joseph Haydn, Frederic Chopin, Maude Powell, Maurice Ravel, Twitter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Classical music performers have been recording for over a century. The Classics a Day team declares July the Summer of 78. Or rather, the summer of 78s. For July, post recordings that were originally issued on 78 rpm discs. Many legendary performances have been captured on 78 rpm. And more than a few 20th Century […]

  • The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour: Disasters!

    Jul 13th, 2022 | By Ken Nail
    Tags: Film music, film scores, ken nail, soundtracks, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour

    Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on CharlottesvilleClassical.org, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores. Disaster movies are almost as old as movies themselves. Silent films like Fire! (1901) and […]

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