Join us for some Foote notes on the American romantic era this week while we look into the music of Arthur Foote and his Suite in E for String Orchestra. Be sure to Like and share with a friend!
Music:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Suite_for_String_Orchestra%2C_Op.63_(Foote%2C_Arthur)
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Stories, diseases, music, and history! This episode of the CoffeeHouse has it all! Join us for some vignettes during these trying time with Godowsky's Triakontameron. Like, and share with a friend!
Music:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Triakontameron_(Godowsky%2C_Leopold)
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Posted in classical, Romantic, Dvorak, American on May 17th, 2020
Be careful out in those forests this summer! As Edward MacDowell shows us in this week's piece, they can be pretty scary places!
Music: http://imslp.org/wiki/Suite_No.1%2C_Op.42_(MacDowell%2C_Edward)
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You'll need some good walking shoes this week as we march into the history of John Philip Sousa! It's a spectacular display of patriotic spirit to help celebrate the 4th of July weekend.
Music: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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https://musopen.org/music/43799-the-gladiator/
https://musopen.org/music/43828-stars-and-stripes-forever/
https://musopen.org/music/43792-the-stars-and-stripes-forever/
https://musopen.org/music/43789-sabre-and-spurs/
http://imslp.org/wiki/El_Capitan_March_(Sousa,_John_Philip)
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Honored_Dead_(Sousa%2C_John_Philip)
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Posted in symphony, American, German on Jun 4th, 2017
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We're at it again with a composer who loved the theatre but was equally as comfortable in the concert hall: German composer Kurt Weill. His symphonic masterpiece, the Second Symphony, will illuminate how wonderful this underappreciated composer really is!
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Put on your dancing shoes and get your jazz hands ready! We're looking at George Gershwin's lesser known, yet still jazzy and fun Second Rhapsody. Get ready for a rip-roaring good time!
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Posted in classical, Contemporary, American on May 7th, 2017
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You may know American composer Aaron Copland for his ballets or symphonies, but did you know he was also composed numerous film scores? The Red Pony Suite is taken from the soundtrack to a great Western film of the same name, and if full of Copland-isms!
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