For the past four years, the #ClassicsaDay team has adopted Classical Christmas as its theme for December. And why not? We have a rich body of music related to the season dating back to the Middle Ages. A good deal of it is religious, but not all — many works are simply inspired by the […]
John Knowles Paine
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#ClassicsaDay #ClassicalChristmas Week 3
This marks the third year running that the Classics a Day team made Christmas music the December theme. I guess that makes it a tradition. When it comes to the music of the season, there’s plenty to choose from. Since the 1100s composers have written sacred music for Advent and Christmas — and plenty of […]
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#ClassicsaDay American Music – Week 3 Annotated List
#USclassics One of the ongoing Twitter hashtag groups I participate with is #ClassicsaDay. For July 2017, I used the theme #USclassics, and presented an entire month of American composers with examples of their music. Twitter only allows 140 characters, pretty much limiting my tweets to the composer’s name, the title of the work, links, and […]
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John Knowles Paine Symphony No. 2 – American Masterwork
John Knowles Paine was one of the first American composers to break onto the international scene. Along with other members of the “Boston Six” (Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick, and Horatio Parker), he well-known in Europe as well as the U.S. Paine’s Symphony No. 2 in a major, op. 34 shows why […]