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  • #ClassicsaDay #SymYesNo Week 2

    Sep 17th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #SymYesNo, Benjamin Britten, Ernest Bloch, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Roy Harris, Twitter

    For the month of September, the Classics a Day team chose a controversial theme. There is a small subset of symphonic works within the classical repertoire that appear misnamed. Most composers choose their titles carefully. But when the title runs counter to expectations, disagreements arise. What does the title “symphony” mean? Can a composition be […]

  • Piano Protagonists – a triumph for Orion Weiss

    Jul 7th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bridge Records, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frederic Chopin, Leon Botstein, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Orion Weiss, The Orchestra Now

    Pianist Orion Weiss assembled this program around a theme – the composer responding to a specific source of inspiration with a virtuoso composition. It’s an interesting idea, and it yielded an album that virtually spans the Romantic Period. The earliest work is Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” by Frederic Chopin. And the inspiration […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalChristmas Week 4

    Dec 25th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalChristmas, #ClassicsaDay, Adolphus Hailstork, Alessandro Scarlatti, Classical music, John Knowles Paine, Margaret Bonds, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Twitter

    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 […]

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