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  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine Week 4

    Oct 30th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalTimeMachine, #ClassicsaDay, Alexander Scriabin, Benjamin Britten, Classical music, Edvard Grieg, Franz Schubert, Twitter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    For the month of October, the Classics a Day team turned nostalgic. Classical musicians have been making recordings since the 1890s. So we all have over 130 years of documented performance practices. And we can judge first-hand the artistry of legendary performers. The challenge is to post classical recordings made before 1949 (pre-LP era). Here […]

  • Charlottesville Symphony warms to British Riches

    Feb 17th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Benjamin Britten, benjamin rous, charlottesville symphony, Classical music, Concert Review, George Butterworth, Grace Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Zachary Wilder

    The Charlottesville Symphony directed by Benjamin Rous performed “British Riches” February 15-16, 2020. The program included a variety of 20th Century UK composers. The relative rarity of the works (at least on this side of the Atlantic) made this a refreshing and engaging concert. George Butterworth’s “A Shropshire Lad” opened the program. This symphonic rhapsody […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalFilmScore Week 2

    Feb 14th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalFilmScore, #ClassicsaDay, Benjamin Britten, Classical music, Elisabeth Lutyens:, George Antheil, Hugo Alfven, Pierre Boulez, Twitter

    For February 2020, the #ClassicsaDay team chose film music as its theme. What exactly is the intersection of classical and film music? Share your answers with a post on Twitter or Facebook, with a link to musical examples. Some film composers began in the classical world. And some film composers have transitioned to classical music. For […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalSchool Weeks 4 and 5

    Sep 27th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalSchool, #ClassicsaDay, Alexander Scriabin, Benjamin Britten, Clifton Williams, Einojuhani Rautavaara, John Philip Sousa, Sigmund Romberg, Twitter

    Traditionally, September is the back-to-school month. The Classics a Day team decided to mark the occasion. Classical School is the theme for September 2019. To participate, just post a piece of classical music that’s somehow related to education with the appropriate hashtags. What would count? Any classical work about school, or using themes from schools; […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalSchool Week 3

    Sep 20th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalSchool, #ClassicsaDay, Benjamin Britten, Classical music, George Frideric Handel, Gustav Holst, Ignaz Moscheles, Twitter

    Traditionally, September is the back-to-school month. The Classics a Day team decided to mark the occasion. Classical School is the theme for September 2019. To participate, just post a piece of classical music that’s somehow related to education with the appropriate hashtags. What would count? Any classical work about school, or using themes from schools; […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalSummer Week 3

    Aug 16th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalSummer, #ClassicsaDay, Benjamin Britten, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Robert Schumann, Samuel Barber, Thomas Campion, Twitter

    It was a busy summer for the Classics a Day team. In June, we marked African-American Music Appreciation Month. In July we celebrated national holidays in the U.S. and  Canada. So that just left August to have a summer theme. For my part, I chose to choose anything except Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” In the process, […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ArmisticeClassics Week 4

    Nov 30th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ArmisticeClassics, #ClassicsaDay, Arthur Benjamin, Benjamin Britten, Charles Ives, Classical music, John Foulds, Rudi Stephan, Twitter

    November 19, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War. The #ClassicaDay team asked participants to post classical works related to the conflict.   For my part, I tried to find examples from both sides of the war, and from as many different countries as possible. Here are my posts […]

  • Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

    Feb 14th, 2018 | By Tim Snider
    Tags: Benjamin Britten, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Concert Review, Ernest Chausson, Igor Stravinsky, Jennifer Higdon, Riccardo Muti

    The great Italian conductor Riccardo Muti has been music director of the legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 2010. During a long and distinguished career he has conducted, and in some cases led, most of the world’s great orchestras and opera companies.   Under Muti’s leadership, the CSO has, if anything, enhanced its reputation as one […]

  • Gil Shaham Violin Concerto Barber Berg Stravinsky Britten Hartmann Canary Classics

    Gil Shaham’s Snapshot of a Decade

    Jul 7th, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: 2oth Century Classical Music, Alban Berg, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Canary Classics, CD Review, Concerto, David Robinson, Gil Shaham, Igor Stravinsky, Juanjo Mena, Karl Hartmann, New York Philharmonic, Samuel Barber, Sejong Soloists, Staatskapelle Dresden

    There’s an advantage to running your own record label — it’s easier to do the projects that you really believe in. In this case, Gil Shaham is the owner/operator of Canary Classics, and the project is a survey of violin concertos of the 1930’s. Just the lineup of composers for this first volume show how […]

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