Today it is appropriate to have contemplative music that hails from America – I think perhaps this is the best choice – this is the vocal version that Barber himself transcribed. Close your eyes and let it wash over you.
Year: 2020
Buzzing Around
I remember playing this in Wimborne Minster – great tune!
Change of Pace – and Scenery
Music often has a distinct nationality and this is very definitely English. This was the only piece by George Butterworth that I played in my orchestral days. Very different from yesterday’s Wagner.
A Wagner Overture
Not much of a story attached to this choice except that this was one of the pieces of music that I performed most often in concerts. Good to play – Wagner’s writing for horn is almost always – and I enjoy listening to this one as well.
The Magic of Jazz
The “Massive Monday” music is a bit different this week – will still require a bit of time to be devoted to it, but instead of a single longer work this contains a number of shorter pieces of music interspersed with an interview which traces some of the roots of jazz and the influences on jazz style.
A Flying Memory
Today’s music evokes a specific memory – but not a specific place, unless you count the inside of a plane 😃
A Rather Less Pleasant Memory
Not every memory triggered by music is necessarily a pleasant one. Today’s takes me back 48 years to the terrible events at the Munich Olympics. The following day there was a memorial service in the stadium which opened with the Funeral march from the Eroica symphony and finished with this – Beethoven’s Egmont Overture.
Thinking About Remembering
I think this one is particularly suitable for today’s “gentle” choice.
A Vienna Memory
OK – so I am pretty sure that there will be only a limited audience who appreciates today’s choice – but it is another one of those pieces of music that takes me back to a specific time/place.
A Horn Memory
According to a post by the International Horn Society it seems that today is David Krehbiel’s birthday.