tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.comments2023-03-22T07:25:46.900+00:00From Beyond the StaveBoydell and Brewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06408632024983935584noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-29324780161413561322013-08-11T23:20:10.293+01:002013-08-11T23:20:10.293+01:00Best wishes for this new beginningBest wishes for this new beginningsoprano girl classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0GeiRFz7knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-86883490766702838242013-06-08T12:17:47.064+01:002013-06-08T12:17:47.064+01:00As a singing student at the Royal College of Music...As a singing student at the Royal College of Music in the late 1970s, Alan Rowlands was my piano teacher. One day I arrived for my lesson to find him playing a most beautiful and haunting piece of music, Month's Mind. I expressed a desire to learn it, which amused Alan for it was way beyond my capabilities. We persevered though, and he also introduced me to the songs of John Ireland. One of these, The Trellis, is in my view one of the best songs written in the twentieth century. Alan asked me to turn pages for his recordings of the John Ireland songs made with Alfreda Hodgson and John Tomlinson. Then many years later, when I was living at Monk's House, the former home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Alan came to lunch with a friend. He bought champagne. We ate lunch in Virginia's sitting room and later in the afternoon we went out to the summer rooms where our grand piano was housed. The windows were open and it was a soft, balmy summer's afternoon. Alan played Month's Mind...I shall never forget it. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-84938062478243687752013-05-09T01:40:04.909+01:002013-05-09T01:40:04.909+01:00I'm sure this will be an excellent read. Vival...I'm sure this will be an excellent read. Vivaldi was such an interesting composer.Perryhttp://moonlight-sonata-sheet-music.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-46352838864843098032013-05-09T01:39:53.504+01:002013-05-09T01:39:53.504+01:00I'm sure this will be an excellent read. Vival...I'm sure this will be an excellent read. Vivaldi was such an interesting composer.Perryhttp://moonlight-sonata-sheet-music.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-67850301317184565452012-03-22T18:29:15.044+00:002012-03-22T18:29:15.044+00:00I featured the life and work of Ruth Crawford Seeg...I featured the life and work of Ruth Crawford Seeger in 1926 on the ninth episode of my podcast, A Year in Classical Music. The year 1926 saw the Music for Small Orchestra and the Violin Sonata, both outstanding pieces. Seeger destroyed her manuscripts of the Violin Sonata in the mid-'30s, but in 1982 her student Vivian Fine found a copy amongst her sheet music. It's a great piece that I first encountered at around the time Hilary Hahn released her recording of the Charles Ives violin sonatas — so there we have five superb American contributions to the genre.Brian Linnellhttp://www.ayicm.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-77379844323296810112011-09-23T19:43:25.588+01:002011-09-23T19:43:25.588+01:00Very nice write up. Now, I have things on my mind ...Very nice write up. Now, I have things on my mind cleared like crystal. Thanks for writing this up.Thomas@Audio Hire,Londonhttp://www.chaps-pa.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-43200435656039886062011-07-11T20:18:51.532+01:002011-07-11T20:18:51.532+01:00From a colleague: "well-done Christina",...From a colleague: "well-done Christina",!.<br />To read further on the musician John Ella (1802-1888) and "my" family, please go to:<br /><br />http://www.hberlioz.com/others/RElla.htm<br /><br />To view other pictures of John and of other musicians, i.e., a young Mozart, etc., go to:<br /><br />http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/leicester/gallery.html?user=11653&scope=leicestershire<br /><br />If the latter is not workable, then type Raymond E.O.Ella in a www.google.co.uk searchbox and click, then go to page with "leicestershirevillages" on and click.<br /><br />Kind regards,<br />"R".Raymond E.O.Ella via The Hector Berlioz Websitehttp://www.hberlioz.com/others/RElla.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-62747429651933183322011-04-17T17:17:13.441+01:002011-04-17T17:17:13.441+01:00Hello.
He lives in Guildford, Surrey UK now.Hello. <br /><br />He lives in Guildford, Surrey UK now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-21675196604096443812010-12-05T15:50:24.478+00:002010-12-05T15:50:24.478+00:00Great story! Leon Kirchner and his music are so f...Great story! Leon Kirchner and his music are so far under the radar of the vast majority of music lovers, including this one, until I was recently introduced to him and his music by a friend of mine, a student of his, Russell Steinberg. I am very grateful for that.odessabraunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10953067549414497693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-86920421001380182022010-09-01T21:34:57.907+01:002010-09-01T21:34:57.907+01:00About "Musical phrasing": http://en.wiki...About "Musical phrasing": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_phrasing<br /><br />Interestingly... a performance needs phrasing, in order for it to be "expressive, in a particular style and culturally aware".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-19502034825091732182010-06-20T11:19:17.327+01:002010-06-20T11:19:17.327+01:00Fascinating story of a lifelong dedication to brin...Fascinating story of a lifelong dedication to bringing back the music of a major composer! Richard Taruskin's six-volume Oxford History of Western Music makes room for a good deal of fascinating discussion of seventeenth-century viol music--Henry Lawes especially (in vol. 2).<br /> Reading this blogpost led me to look on youtube.com, where I found numerous very skilled and soulful renderings of viol consort pieces by John Jenkins. This one has a film of a quietly flowing river (location unnamed) to watch as you listen--and it somehow fits well....<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYuXVt4mBJs<br /> The piece is a sarabande, and sarabandes by anybody tend to be wonderful, full of gentle flow and perhaps even (now that I'm thinking visually) ripples!Ralph Lockehttps://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewResearcherPage.action?researcherId=73noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-49922669366170111762010-06-05T14:14:13.035+01:002010-06-05T14:14:13.035+01:00Fascinating to learn about a fabulous pianist/inte...Fascinating to learn about a fabulous pianist/interpreter whom I had never heard of. This is a lovely reminder that only a few great musicians become world-famous, yet thousands more are able to enrich our lives if we take advantage of what they have to offer! The same is true, of course, for lesser-known films, by independent producers and such, by novelists who have somehow not been catapulted to fame, and so on. It's often well worth a chance to try out something new that one stumbles upon, or is located nearby.... (The slogan Eat Locally could perhaps be adapted: Listen Locally! Read Locally!)Ralph Lockehttps://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewResearcherPage.action?researcherId=73noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-88631011715853942522010-03-09T17:29:37.635+00:002010-03-09T17:29:37.635+00:00I can't wait for this book to come out...I can't wait for this book to come out...Jeremy Eusebiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09566695533424919776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-5574055176310034522009-10-24T11:11:38.105+01:002009-10-24T11:11:38.105+01:00I have admired and even loved various Schoeck piec...I have admired and even loved various Schoeck pieces that I have heard through the years. (The Horn Concerto captivated me back in the late 1960s on an LP.) Chris Walton's essay here gives a vivid sense of what it must be like to work on the biography of a composer (or other figure) from recent decades, capturing reminiscences before they vanish. Thanks!Ralph Lockehttp://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/?id=101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-5704935555055224392009-10-03T13:46:47.402+01:002009-10-03T13:46:47.402+01:00Update! Marion Scott's entire Beethoven book ...Update! Marion Scott's entire Beethoven book is available online at<br />http://www.musicweb-international.com/Scott/Scottbook/index.htmRalph Lockehttp://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/locke_ralph/wnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-81937214675649620392009-10-03T13:31:53.135+01:002009-10-03T13:31:53.135+01:00Fascinating to learn more about Marion Scott, whos...Fascinating to learn more about Marion Scott, whose writings were part of what, early on, drew me to the field of writing about music. Copies of one or another edn. of her Master Musicians book on Beethoven can easily be found on the used-book market (e.g., on amazon.com), and are full of fresh wordings and perceptions.<br /> It was great to have the hot link to her full review of the premiere of the Elgar Cello Concerto! A fine example of how to use the web to create "added value"!Ralph Lockehttp://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/?id=101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-60363884260698941432009-09-18T04:51:11.606+01:002009-09-18T04:51:11.606+01:00I would be interested to contact Barry Sterndale-B...I would be interested to contact Barry Sterndale-Bennett who used to sing in the Philharmonia Chorus with us. Do you have a contact email?John the organisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15397677400113664704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-80028442420632261112009-04-01T09:15:00.000+01:002009-04-01T09:15:00.000+01:00Many thanks, Joannah. Good to hear you're enjoying...Many thanks, Joannah. Good to hear you're enjoying the blog.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes<BR/>Michael RichardsBoydell and Brewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408632024983935584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-54123935383427372482008-12-05T16:17:00.000+00:002008-12-05T16:17:00.000+00:00This post might be of marginal interest, too.Selec...This post might be of marginal interest, too.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2008/12/select-discographies-for-vernon-handley.html" REL="nofollow">Select Discographies for Vernon Handley (1930 - 2008) and Richard Hickox (1948 - 2008)</A><BR/><BR/>http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2008/12/select-discographies-for-vernon-handley.htmljflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-27973986849363309222008-11-21T11:59:00.000+00:002008-11-21T11:59:00.000+00:00That's an ungenerous remark from Anonymous. The w...That's an ungenerous remark from Anonymous. The whole point in the opening of my posting was that--despite my general lack of interest in country music--I did choose to go into the auditorium and hear the music! Similarly, many other musicologists at the Nashville conference--whatever their musical preferences and scholarly orientations--gave glowing reports to me about the remarkable performers they heard in the bars and clubs along Second Street.<BR/> More generally, most musicologists that I know do have great familiarity with other musical traditions than (as Anonymous puts it) "just" classical. In particular, many kinds of popular music. Not only do we know and like it, we study it. There are always numerous papers on various pop-music topics at our conferences nowadays.<BR/> But country music is a different story. Many people in big cities, in academia, etc., find the whole tradition hard to fathom, or actively distasteful (e.g., because of the cultural values in many of the song lyrics). I tried to touch on this in a lighthearted way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-73040046387108604672008-11-18T19:28:00.000+00:002008-11-18T19:28:00.000+00:00It's pretty sad that you'd never heard of the Ryma...It's pretty sad that you'd never heard of the Ryman or Milsap. I keep thinking musicologists will come out of the classical closet some day, but I guess some of them just want to stay there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-84645305507172062132008-08-29T14:21:00.000+01:002008-08-29T14:21:00.000+01:00Pam Blevins answers: Annie Drummond suffered from ...Pam Blevins answers: Annie Drummond suffered from Arteriosclerosis - hardening of the arteries - according to her death certificate. A family friend recalled Annie’s later years (during the 1950s) as “agonizing”. She had “lost touch with reality” and was already withdrawn some years before she was hospitalized. Eventually, Annie reached the point where she didn’t recognize people or confused them with others, recognizing her daughter’s friend but not her daughter, for example. She had also taken to wandering away from her home at night so it became necessary to place her in a facility for her own safety. At that time the state hospitals in Massachusetts offered about the only option so she was placed at the Medfield facility. Unfortunately in those days and until fairly recently the Massachusetts state hospitals all had a Dickensian reputation with the exception of Medfield. She was fortunate in that regard. Another factor to consider is that Annie and her husband suffered a devastating loss when their young son, their only child at the time, was killed by a runaway vehicle in front of their home (they were in their 40s and he was the joy of their lives). Some believe that the trauma of the boy’s death played a role in Annie’s condition, explained her withdrawal and decline. It could well be that the death of her son and the onset of the Arteriosclerosis were indeed the factors in her final illness.<BR/><BR/>Pam BlevinsBoydell and Brewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408632024983935584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-47484130579950957202008-08-27T23:11:00.000+01:002008-08-27T23:11:00.000+01:00It is ironic that Annie Drummond lived the last ye...It is ironic that Annie Drummond lived the last years of her life in an asylum for the mentally ill as did her "love" Ivor Gurney.<BR/><BR/>I wonder however whether it was "mental illness" or what would now be diagnosed as Alzheimers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224918604253571465.post-91429875108029524722008-03-17T00:17:00.000+00:002008-03-17T00:17:00.000+00:00Hello Michael,Thanks so much for the writeup! We'...Hello Michael,<BR/>Thanks so much for the writeup! We're happy to have the virtual press. As you probably know, we've got a link running to you too. <BR/>I've enjoyed reading your posts so far and look forward to seeing more.<BR/>-RyanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com