I have over recent weeks shared stuff about the Glasgow Schools camps and the Wessex Youth Orchestra tour – today it is the turn of the Scottish Salvation Army music camps. Many of my facebook friends appear in this little video 😉
Different Fauré
For this Friday’s slow moment we turn to Fauré – but not the Requiem – this is one of those pieces that you know – but can’t quite place who wrote it and what the title is! Its perfect for relaxation.
Dancing Horns
Its been a little while since we had horn music 😂😉 so here is a fun little piece – played this many times in the concert band arrangement – but never this arrangement. It sort of sticks with the Germanic theme for this week – its the Berlin Horns – and some of them are German😃
There Is More To It Than That
Today another major work from the Germanic tradition – although I suspect that there may well be a lot of people who think that this lasts under two minutes😃
Carry On Regardless
Now I could have used my mammoth Monday selection to share Wagner’s Ring cycle, but I have decided to have an excerpt instead. There is a lot of “funeral music” around but this may well be the most “glorious”.
Mammoth Monday Mahler
Its that time of the week for something “bigger” and this week we have Mammoth Monday Mahler!!😃
Jazz Sunday
A little New Orleans Jazz for Sunday this week. This is invariably the opening number in Canadian Brass Concerts – I first head it on a recording (Unexplored Territory) – and don’t worry – the opening is supposed to sound like an old ’78’ recording – your audio hasn’t gone funny!!
Back To The Funny Stuff
back to humour today – I expect that most of my brass playing friends have seen this performance before, but it is worth repeating – and will come as a surprise to those who have not seen it.
Time For Sleep
When I was in digs in Edinburgh when studying at Heriot Watt I had one of those “record players in a suitcase” (that seem to have come back into fashion now) and I would often put on my record of Chopin Nocturnes as I went to bed – and be woken half an hour or so later by the click, click, click that signalled that the stylus had reached the middle of the LP 😃
For John Lewis
Change of plan tonight – having been watching coverage of the funeral of John Lewis it seems very appropriate to share this music instead of what I had planned. The words of this song are a good motto for anyone.