Today’s choice is Stravinsky’s setting of Psalm 150 – the third and final movement of his Symphony of Psalms. When I played this with the Glasgow University this was very new music to me and I wasn’t sure whether I liked listening to it – even though it was good to play.
However the chord progressions stayed in my mind and even came back to me years later – I couldn’t place them at first and had to go searching to remind me where they came from. Those progressions are repeated throughout this movement from the start to the end “Laudate Dominum”.
Igor Stravinsky : Symphony Of Psalms – 3rd Movt. – Alleluia – Laudate Dominum
Comments :
Paul Dickens
I remember singing it at Exeter Uni with the choral society – tricky!
George R McConnell
That must have been a few years ago as well 😉 – you just proving your memory is still up to scratch? 😁
Paul Dickens
haha yes!
Howard Evans
Another of my favourites! I still have my study score of this from Uni days, but I first heard it in the Royal Albert Hall, a year after Stravinsky died. Somehow my parents had managed to tickets for the concert in his memory, conducted by Bernstein. I can still ‘see’ in my mind the view we had up in the balcony, but everything seemed so energised and close at hand. It was televised so the lighting was very bright for the stage, and you could see the sweat pouring off Bernstein!