Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor (French: Introduction et Rondo capriccioso en la mineur), op. 28, is a composition for violin and orchestra written in 1863 by Camille Saint-Saëns for the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate. Since its 19th century premiere, it has continued to be one of Saint-Saëns' most popular compositions. Performed by: Jascha Heifetz (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

SAINT SAËNS Saens The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso HEIFETZ andrewgrumman JC

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FAURE' Faure Pavane Op. 50 Paintings CLAUDE MONET andrewgrumman JC

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RESPIGHI Siciliana Italiana Sicilian Italian CARAVAGGIO andrewgrumman JC

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WAGNER The Ride of Valkyries Die Walküre STOKOWSKI andrewgrumman JC

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VIVALDI Concerto Two Violins Strings Minor Op. No. RV 522 andrewgrumman JC

Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) O Mio Babbino Caro Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dante's The Divine Comedy. It is the third of the trio of operas known as Il trittico. First performance: Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1918. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

Maria Callas Μαρία Κάλλας Gianni Schicchi Giacomo Puccini andrewgrumman JC

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Beethoven Coriolan Overture andrewgrumman JC

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Maria Callas Μαρία Κάλλας Madama Butterfly -Puccini andrewgrumman JC

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BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 1 Fourth Movement Prestissimo andrewgrumman JC

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TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in major Op. 48 andrewgrumman JC

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Mozart Requiem andrewgrumman JC

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Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto Mysticism Love Poems Reality Deliverance Passing Through Sufi Sufism Mystic Rumi Mowlana Mevlevi Hafez Sa'adi Persian Islam Christianity Judaism Arthur Rubinstein Walt Whitman andrewgrumman JC

Friends, I recently came across this beautiful book of Poetry - Please check it out: www.amazon.com "What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression. Yet out of his near-death experience, Dix wrote many hymns, including 'What Child is This?" It was later set to the traditional English melody of "Greensleeves". We would like To thank The Mormon Tabernacle Choir for This Beautiful Song. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

What Child Is This andrewgrumman JC

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Luciano Pavarotti Tosca Lucevan Le Stelle Aria Puccini andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 is a song by Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in 1912 as the last of his Fourteen Songs, Opus 34. Written for voice (soprano or tenor) with piano accompaniment, it contains no words, and is usually sung entirely to the vowel "ah". It was dedicated to soprano Antonina Nezhdanova. Although the original publication stipulates that the song may be sung by either soprano or tenor voice, it is virtually never performed by a tenor as the male voice's range (an octave lower than a soprano) would sound very odd in relation to the piano accompaniment. The range of the piece is high, going up to a high C-sharp (although Rachmaninoff offers an alternative version which only reaches high A). Conducted by: Leopold Stokowski; Featuring Anna Moffo (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

RACHMANINOFF Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14 STOKOWSKI Anna Moffo andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) 3. Scherzo: Molto Vivace -- Poco sostenuto The Symphony No. 9, in E Minor "From the New World" (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895. It is by far his most popular symphony, and one of the most popular symphonies in the modern repertory. It is in four movements: 1. Adagio -- Allegro molto 2. Largo 3. Scherzo: Molto Vivace -- Poco sostenuto 4. Allegro con fuoco Dvorak stated that the third movement scherzo was "suggested by the scene at the feast in Hiawatha where the Indians dance". "The Song of Hiawatha" is an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow based on the legends of the Ojibway Indians. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

DVORAK The New World Symphony No. in Minor Op. 95 andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com and support him - Thanks :) As I was a walking one morning in May I spied a young couple a makin' of hay. O one was a fair maid and her beauty showed clear and the other was a soldier, a bold grenadier. Good morning, good morning, good morning said he O where are you going my pretty lady? I'm a going a walking by the clear crystal stream to see cool water glide and hear nightingales sing. O soldier, o soldier, will you marry me? O no, my sweet lady that never can be. For I've got a wife at home in my own country, Two wives and the army's too many for me. From the list of folk songs by Roud number: 140. "The Bold Grenadier", "The Nightingale Song" or "One Morning In May" etc. (Laws P14) Performed By: The Cambridge Singers, With John Rutter - We would like to thank them.

The Bold Grenadier andrewgrumman JC

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Johann Sebastian BACH The Toccata and Fugue in minor BWV 565 andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Asturia (Leyenda) In 1883 Isaac Albéniz met the teacher and composer Felipe Pedrell, who inspired him to write Spanish music such as the Suite Española, Op. 47. The fifth movement of that suite, called Asturias (Leyenda) is probably most famous these days in the classical guitar world, even though it was originally composed for piano and only later transcribed to guitar by Francisco Tárrega. Many of his other compositions were also later transcribed to guitar - Albéniz himself preferred Tárrega's guitar transcriptions to his original piano works. Leyenda (Asturias) is a work of classical music written by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. Originally written for piano in G minor, it was Francisco Tárrega who transcribed it for guitar and put it in its most recognizable key, E minor. It is the most famous section in a suite entitled "Suite Española" (Op. 47), noted for its delicate, intricate melody and abrupt dynamic changes. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

ALBÉNIZ Tárrega Asturia Leyenda Andrés SEGOVIA andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Excerpts from "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus": This is a small work for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on the well-known folk tune Dives and Lazarus and first performed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. One of the variations uses a form of the tune traditionally associated with Maria Martin. Dives and Lazarus or Lazarus and Dives is a parable attributed to Jesus that is reported only in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 16:19-16:31). It is also known as "The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus." The wealthy man is traditionally called "Dives", after the Latin word for "rich man" (though in the Biblical text he is only referred to as the rich man).[1] The story has been a favorite for artists and theologians, as it is the most vivid account of the afterlife to be found in the New Testament. (We appreciate Both Wikipaedia's and All Music Guide's contributions in the descriptions here)

Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus andrewgrumman JC

Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) Missa O magnum mysterium - Sanctus Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes spelled 'da Vittoria') (1548 -- August 20, 1611) was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the most famous composer of the 16th century in Spain, and one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Palestrina, Orlando de Lassus, and William Byrd. Victoria is the most significant composer of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and one of the best-regarded composers of sacred music in the late Renaissance, a genre to which he devoted himself exclusively. His works have undergone a revival in the 20th century, with numerous recent recordings. Many commentators hear in his music a mystical intensity and direct emotional appeal, qualities considered by some to be lacking in the arguably more rhythmically and harmonically placid music of Palestrina. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

Tomás Luis de Victoria da Vittoria Missa magnum mysterium Sanctus Shroud of Turin Mass Catholic andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Excerpts from The Capriccio Italien, op. 45 is a fantasy for orchestra composed between January and May of 1880 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The Capriccio was inspired by a trip Tchaikovsky took to Rome, during which he saw the Carnival in full swing, and is reminiscent of Italian folk music and street songs. As these elements are treated rather freely initially he intended this piece to be called Italian Fantasy. Tchaikovsky even uses as the introduction a bugle call that he overheard from his hotel played by Italian cavalry regiment. Another source of inspiration for this piece are Mikhail Glinka's Spanish Pieces. The premiere was held in Moscow on December 18 of the same year; the orchestra was led by Nikolai Rubinstein. Although Tchaikovsky wrote to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck that the work would be successful (the piece was praised by most critics)he admitted that it was not very well composed. Dedicated to Karl Davidov, the Capriccio was later arranged by the composer for 4-hand piano. A typical performance lasts for around 15 minutes. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien andrewgrumman JC

Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) Promenade Pictures at an Exhibition (Russian: Картинки с выставки -- Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане, Kartínki s výstavki -- Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane, Pictures from an Exhibition -- a Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann) is a famous suite of ten piano pieces composed by Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. It is generally acknowledged to be Mussorgsky's greatest solo piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has also become known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers (see: Versions by other hands, below, for further discussion), with Ravel's arrangement being the most recorded and performed. The version by Maurice Ravel (also produced in 1922, to a commission by Serge Koussevitzky) is a virtuoso effort by a master colourist, and has proved the most popular in the concert hall and on record. Ravel does, however, omit the Promenade between "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle" and Limoges. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition Ravel Orchestration andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) IV. Finale' (Allegro Guerriero) The Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major, op. 46, is a composition for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch. Completed in 1880, it was dedicated to the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate. It is a fantasy on Scottish folk melodies and includes a sprightly arrangement of "Hey Tuttie Tatie", which was also the tune to which lyrics by Robert Burns were set in the patriotic anthem "Scots Wha Hae". In paying homage to Scottish tradition, Bruch's composition gives a prominent place to the harp in the instrumental accompaniment to the violin. The Scottish Fantasy is one of the several signature pieces by Bruch which are still widely heard today, along with the first violin concerto and the Kol Nidre for cello and orchestra. Movements: I. Introducion; Grave, Adagio cantabile II. Allegro III. Andante sostenuto IV. Finale; Allegro energico Performed by: Jascha Heifetz (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

BRUCH The Scottish Fantasy in E-flat Major Op. 46 HEIFETZ andrewgrumman JC

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SCHUMANN Symphony No. in Minor Op. 120 andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Egmont, opus 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It consists of an overture and nine separate subsequent pieces for soprano and full orchestra. Beethoven wrote it between October 1809 and June 1810, and it was premiered on 15 June 1810. The subject of the music is the history and the heroism of the Count of Egmont. In the music Beethoven expressed his own political concerns, particularly the heroic exaltation of the sacrifice of a man condemned to death by having taken a strong stand against oppression. The music was accompanied by eulogistic praise, in particular by ETA Hoffmann, for its poetry and Goethe himself declared that Beethoven had expressed his intentions with "a remarkable genius". The overture, powerful and expressive, is one of the last works of his middle period; it has become as famous a composition as the Coriolan Overture, and is in a similar style to the Fifth Symphony which he completed two years earlier. Conducted by: Leonard Bernstein (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture Op. 84 andrewgrumman JC

Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) III. Intermezzo: Andante con moto IV. Finale (The Dargason): Allegro Gustav Holst (21 September 1874 - 25 May 1934) was a British composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years. Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London,his early work was influenced by Ravel,Grieg, Richard Strauss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, but most of his music is highly original, with influences from Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes.Holst's music is well known for unconventional use of metre and haunting melodies. In 1905, Holst was appointed Director of Music at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, London, where he composed the successful and still popular St Paul's Suite for the school orchestra in 1913. St. Paul's Suite (Op. 29 no. 2) is a composition for orchestra. It was written in 1912, but due to revisions wasn't published until 1922. The suite has four movements: I. Jig: Vivace II. Ostinato: Presto III. Intermezzo: Andante con moto IV. Finale (The Dargason): Allegro (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

Gustav HOLST St. Paul's Suite Intermezzo Finale andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) 3. Allegro con fuoco (B flat minor → B flat major) The Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Op. 23, was composed in November 1874 - February 1875 at the instigation of piano virtuoso Nikolai Rubinstein, director of the Moscow Conservatory. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888. The concerto is the most famous of the three piano concertos written by Tchaikovsky. The concerto follows the traditional form of three movements: 1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con spirito (B flat minor) 2. Andantino simplice - Prestissimo (D flat major) 3. Allegro con fuoco (B flat minor → B flat major) The concerto is famous for the dramatic tension between soloist and orchestra. It is markedly symphonic in character and differs considerably from the more musically conservative and outwardly virtuoso type of concerto that was then widely popular in Russia, however, the technical demand placed upon the pianist remains considerable. Performed by: Artur Rubinstein (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. Op. 23 andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) I. Jig: Vivace II. Ostinato: Presto Gustav Holst (21 September 1874 - 25 May 1934) was a British composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years. Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London,his early work was influenced by Ravel,Grieg, Richard Strauss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, but most of his music is highly original, with influences from Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes.Holst's music is well known for unconventional use of metre and haunting melodies. In 1905, Holst was appointed Director of Music at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, London, where he composed the successful and still popular St Paul's Suite for the school orchestra in 1913. St. Paul's Suite (Op. 29 no. 2) is a composition for orchestra. It was written in 1912, but due to revisions wasn't published until 1922. The suite has four movements: I. Jig: Vivace II. Ostinato: Presto III. Intermezzo: Andante con moto IV. Finale (The Dargason): Allegro (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

Gustav HOLST St. Paul's Suite Jig Ostinato andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Thaïs is an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France. It was first performed at the Opéra in Paris on March 16, 1894, starring the American soprano Sybil Sanderson, for whom Massenet had written the title role. Set in Roman Egypt, the story concerns a Cenobite monk, Athanaël, who attempts to convert Thaïs, a courtesan of Alexandria and devotée of Venus, to Christianity, but discovers, too late, that his obsession with her is rooted in lust. It has been described as bearing a kind of religious eroticism and has spawned many controversial productions. Its famous Méditation for violin, an entr'acte played before a closed curtain between the scenes of Act II, is among the most frequently performed concert pieces and has been arranged for many different instruments. After Manon and Werther, Thaïs is one of Massenet's most performed operas, but it is not part of the standard operatic repertoire. The role of Thaïs, similar to another Massenet heroine, Esclarmonde, is notoriously difficult to sing and is reserved for only the most gifted of performers. Modern interpreters have included Carol Neblett, Anna Moffo, Beverly Sills, Leontyne Price and, most recently, Renée Fleming. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

MASSENET Meditation From Thaïs Thais andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Henry Purcell (September 10, 1659--November 21, 1695), a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composers. He has often been called England's finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music. Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge is a musical composition based upon the Play Abdelazer by Aphra Behns, a tragedy. Abdelazer is the son of the King of Fez who has been captured and killed by the King of Spain. Devoting his life to revenge, Abdelazer begins by accepting the advances of the lascivious Queen of Spain, and then proceeds to slay the King of Spain, his son, and then the Queen herself. He is finally slain by the King's other son, Philip. Z 570, Incidental Music, Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge (1695) Movt. 1, Overture Suite Movt. 2, Rondeau Movt. 3, Air Movt. 4, Air Movt. 5, Minuet Movt. 6, Air Movt. 7, Jig Movt. 8, Hornpipe Movt. 9, Air Movt. 10, Song, "Lucinda is bewitching fair" (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

PURCELL Rondeau From Abdelazer Abdelazar Abdelezer Suite Instrumental andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Valse (Corps de Ballet) Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое Озеро, Lebedinoye Ozero, Swan Lake) is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky presented in either four Acts, four Scenes (primarily outside Russia and Eastern Europe) or three Acts, four Scenes (primarily in Russia and Eastern Europe), based on a libretto by Vladimir Begichev and (possibly) Vasily Geltser, fashioned from an ancient German legend, which tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. It was originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (opus 20). First presented as The Lake of the Swans by the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on February 20/March 4, 1877 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates) in Moscow, Russia. Although the ballet is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the revival by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, staged for the Imperial Ballet, first presented January 15, 1895 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. For this revival, Tchaikovsky's score was revised by the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre's kapellmeister Riccardo Drigo. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake Valse Waltz Corps de Ballet andrewgrumman JC

Friends, I recently came across this beautiful book of Poetry - Please check it out: www.amazon.com O come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Christian Latin text ("Veni, veni, Emmanuel") by John Mason Neale in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons (the acrostic O Antiphons), which now serves as a popular Advent and Christmas hymn. Its origins are unclear, it is thought that the antiphons are from at least the 8th Century, but "Veni, veni Emmanuel" may well be 12th Century in origin. The text is based on the biblical prophesy from Isaiah 7:14 that states that God will give Israel a sign that will be called Immanuel (Lit.: God with us). The Gospel of Matthew, (Matthew 1:23), states fulfillment of this prophecy in the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. We would like To thank The Mormon Tabernacle Choir for This Beautiful Song. (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

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Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) 3. Allegro Giocoso. Ma Non Troppo Vivace Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 is one of the best-known of all violin concertos. It follows the standard concerto form, with three movements in the pattern quick-slow-quick: 1. Allegro non troppo 2. Adagio 3. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace - Poco piu presto Originally, however, the work was planned in four movements like the second piano concerto. The middle movements, one of which was intended to be a scherzo, were replaced with what Brahms called a "feeble Adagio." The work was written in 1878 for the violinist and friend of Brahms, Joseph Joachim, who was the dedicatee. Brahms asked Joachim's advice on the writing of the solo violin part. The most familiar cadenzas used in the work are by Joachim, though a number of people have provided alternatives, including Leopold Auer, Max Reger, Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, and George Enescu. A recording of the concerto released by Ruggiero Ricci has been coupled with sixteen different cadenzas. The work was premiered by Joachim in Leipzig on January 1, 1879. Various modifications were made between then and the work's publication by Fritz Simrock later in the year. Performed by: Jascha Heifetz (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

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Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Auld Lang Syne" is a song by Robert Burns (1759--1796). It is one of the better-known songs in English-speaking countries, and it is often sung at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Burns' Original Scots verse: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne ? CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne. And surely ye'll be your pint-stoup ! And surely I'll be mine ! And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne. CHORUS We twa hae run about the braes, and pou'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary fit, sin' auld lang syne. CHORUS We twa hae paidl'd in the burn, frae morning sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar'd sin' auld lang syne. CHORUS And there's a hand, my trusty fiere ! And gies a hand o' thine ! And we'll tak a right gude-willie-waught, for auld lang syne. CHORUS (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

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Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) 3. Rondo: molto allegro Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 was composed in 1800, and first performed on April 5, 1803 with the composer as soloist. As is standard for concertos, it is in three movements: 1. Allegro con brio 2. Largo 3. Rondo: molto allegro About two and a half minutes pass in the first movement before the orchestral introduction is intruded upon by C minor scales forcefully announcing the piano's entrance. The coda is similarly dramatic, emanating from very quiet trills, moving faster, resulting in a regal yet dark climax. The second movement is in E major, opening with a much-admired melody for the solo piano. The final rondo begins in C minor, ending with a presto in C major. The concerto was incomplete at its first performance. Beethoven's friend, Ritter von Seyfried, who turned the pages of the music for him that night, later wrote: "I saw practically nothing but blank pages. At the most I noticed here and there a few hieroglyphics which meant absolutely nothing to me, but which he had scribbled down to provide him with a few milestones. He played almost the entire solo part by memory; as was often the case, he had not had time to commit it all to paper". (We appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions here)

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Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Waltz (Act II) Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин in Russian, Yevgeny Onegin or Evgenij Onegin in transliteration) is an opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer, based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. First performance: Malyi Theatre, Moscow, 1879. Eugene Onegin is a well-known example of lyric opera; the libretto very closely follows Pushkin's original, retaining much of his poetry, to which Tchaikovsky adds music of a dramatic nature. The story concerns a selfish hero who lives to regret his blasé rejection of a young woman's love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend. There are a several recordings of it, and it is regularly performed. Act 2 Scene 1: The ballroom of the Larin house Tatyana's name-day party. Onegin is irritated with the country people who gossip about him and Tatyana, and with Lensky for persuading him to come. He decides to revenge himself by dancing and flirting with Olga. Lensky becomes extremely jealous. Olga is insensitive to her fiancé and apparently attracted to Onegin. There is a diversion, while a French neighbour called Monsieur Triquet (tenor) sings some couplets in honour of Tatyana, after which the quarrel becomes more intense. Lensky renounces his friendship with Onegin in <b>...</b>

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin Op. 24 Евгений Онегин Waltz Act II andrewgrumman JC

Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) The Suite Bergamasque (ber-gah-'mask) is one of the most famous piano suites of Claude Debussy, and is widely regarded as the most fascinating. It was likely named after Paul Verlaine's poem "Clair de lune", which references a bergamask. It was published in 1905 and consists of four parts, or movements. I. Prélude II. Menuet III. Clair de Lune IV. Passepied The Prélude is played in the key of F, tempo rubato. It is full of dynamic contrasts with a very spectacular beginning and ending. The second movement is entitled Menuet, according to the typical Baroque suite form. It is quite mysterious, yet playful during its pianissimo parts and shows interesting harmonies. It is followed by the well-known Clair de Lune (Moonlight), a very soft and tender masterpiece of Debussy, played mostly pianissimo. Finally, the Passepied. It is played in F-sharp minor, allegretto ma non troppo; it is again playful and ends with a very quiet part after going through a section in C minor. Clair de Lune de la Suite Bergamasque Perhaps the most famous part is the third movement of Claude Debussy's Suite bergamasque for solo piano, composed in 1890. It is mostly played pianissimo, and the variations between intensity and distance make this masterpiece one of the most beautiful from the Impressionist epoch. It is played in D-flat major, with the exception of its climax <b>...</b>

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Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) E lucevan le stelle was the last romanza in the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. It is sung by Tosca's lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, when lamenting his coming execution. The painter Cavaradossi has been sentenced to death for helping to hide an escaped political prisoner. As he awaits his fate, he sings of the sweet memories of his beloved Tosca and his dashed dreams. It is written in B minor. E lucevan le stelle, e olezzava la terra stridea l'uscio dell'orto, e un passo sfiorava la rena. Entrava ella, fragrante, mi cadea fra le braccia. Oh! dolci baci, o languide carezze, mentr'io fremente le belle forme discogliea dai veli! Svani per sempre il sogno mio d'amore... L'ora e fuggita e muoio disperato! E non ho amato mai tanto la vita! How the stars seemed to shimmer, the sweet scents of the garden, how the creaking gate whispered, and a footstep skimmed over the sand, how she then entered, so fragrant, and then fell into my two arms! Ah sweetest of kiss, languorous caresses, while I stood trembling, searching her features concealed by her mantle. My dreams of pure love, forgotten forever! All of it's gone now! I die hopeless, despairing, and never before have I loved life like this!

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Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) "Amazing Grace" is a well-known Christian hymn. The words were written late in 1772 by Englishman John Newton. John Newton (July 24, 1725 -- December 21, 1807) was an Anglican clergyman who had, at one time, been a slaveship master. They first appeared in print in Newton's Olney Hymns, 1779 that he worked on with William Cowper. John Newton wrote this hymn some time after converting to Christianity in the village of Kineton, in Warwickshire, England. The lyrics are based on his reflections on an Old Testament text he was preparing to preach on, adding his perspective about his own conversion while on his slave ship, the Greyhound, in 1748. "Amazing Grace" Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me.... I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now, I see. T'was Grace that taught... my heart to fear. And Grace, my fears relieved. How precious did that Grace appear... the hour I first believed. Through many dangers, toils and snares... we have already come. T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far... and Grace will lead us home. The Lord has promised good to me... His word my hope secures. He will my shield and portion be... as long as life endures. When we've been here ten thousand years... bright shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise... then when we've first begun <b>...</b>

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Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (or God rest you merry, gentlemen) is a traditional Christmas carol. The melody is in a minor key and is in common time or cut time. The composer is unknown; it is often attributed as English traditional. Full Lyrics: 1. God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born upon this day, To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray: O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy. 2. In Bethlehem, in Israel, This blessed Babe was born, And laid within a manger Upon this blessed morn, The which His Mother Mary Did nothing take in scorn: O tidings ... 3.From God our heavenly Father A blessèd angel came, And unto certain shepherds Brought tidings of the same, How that in Bethlehem was born The Son of God by name: O tidings ... 4. The shepherds at those tidings Rejoicèd much in mind, And left their flocks a-feeding In tempest, storm and wind, And went to Bethlehem straightway, This blessèd Babe to find: O tidings ... 5. But when to Bethlehem they came, Whereat this Infant lay, They found Him in a manger, Where oxen feed on hay; His mother Mary kneeling, Unto the Lord did pray: O tidings ... 6. Now to the Lord sing praises, All you within this place, And with true love and brotherhood Each other now embrace; This holy tide of Christmas All <b>...</b>

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Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) - Prélude. Andante moderato (Prelude to Act I) - Aragonaise. Allegro vivo (Prelude to Act IV) - Habanera. Allegretto quasi Andantino (Act I) - IV. Farandole. Allegro deciso (Tempo di Marcia) - Allegro vivo e deciso Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the story of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris on March 3, 1875. For a year after its premiere, it was considered a failure, denounced by critics as "immoral" and "superficial". Today, it is one of the world's most popular operas.[1] In fact, Opera America claims it to be the fourth most-performed opera in North America. The story concerns the eponymous Carmen, a beautiful gypsy with a fiery temper. Not careful with her love, she is responsible for the downfall of many men. She woos the corporal Don José, leading him to mutiny against his superior. His infatuation causes him to join a band of smugglers, of which Carmen is a member. He is happy with Carmen for a brief period, but is driven to madness when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo. Several well-known pieces from this opera have taken on a life separate to the work: the Prélude (overture), the Toréador Song, and the Habanera. The L'Arlésienne Suites are musical works based on Georges <b>...</b>

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Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com - Thanks :) Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 -- October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che or just Che was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara travelled throughout South America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the conclusion that the region's socio-economic inequalities could only be remedied by socialism through revolution, prompting him to intensify his study of Marxism and travel to Guatemala to learn about the reforms being implemented there by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. While in Mexico in 1956, Guevara joined Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement, which seized power from the regime of the dictator General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba in 1959. In the months after the success of the revolution, Guevara was assigned the role of "supreme prosecutor",overseeing the trials and executions of hundreds of suspected war criminals from the previous regime. After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 with the intention of fomenting revolutions first in Congo-Kinshasa, and then in <b>...</b>

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Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) Tenzin Gyatso (born 6 July 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. As such, he is often referred to in Western media simply as "the Dalai Lama". He was the fifth of sixteen children of a farming family in the village of Taktser or Tengtser of the Tibetan province of Amdo and was originally named Lhamo Döndrub. His first language was the Amdo dialect of Tibetan. He was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of two. On 17 November 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet's Head of State and, as the most important political ruler while Tibet faced occupation by the forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In 1954, he went to Beijing to talk with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the PRC. He was also elected as the vice chairman of China's National People's Congress in 1954. After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin Gyatso fled to India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan government in exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him. A charismatic figure and noted public speaker, Tenzin Gyatso is the first Dalai Lama to travel to the West. There, he has helped to spread Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular <b>...</b>

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Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: www.amazon.com - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) II. Andantino in modo di canzona Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, was written in 1877--1878. It is in four movements: I. Andante Sostenuto—Moderato con anima (F minor) II. Andantino in modo di canzona (B-flat minor) III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato (F major) IV. Allegro con fuoco (F major) During the composition of the symphony, Tchaikovsky wrote to his patron, Madame Nadezhda von Meck, that he wanted "very much" to dedicate it to her, and that he would write on it "Dedicated to My Best Friend". The symphony's first performance was at a Russian Musical Society concert in St. Petersburg on February 10 (Old Style)/February 22 (New Style) 1878, with Nikolai Rubinstein as conductor. It is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, and strings. The second movement is tinged with melancholy and regret. Initial critical reaction to the work was unfavorable, and reaction to the premiere in the United States was similar. In 1890 a reviewer for the New York Post wrote, "The Fourth Tchaikovsky Symphony proved to be one of the most thoroughly Russian, ie semi-barbaric, compositions ever heard in the city. ... If Tchaikovsky had called his symphony 'A Sleigh Ride Through Siberia' no one would have found this title inappropriate <b>...</b>

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No._4 Op. 36 BERNSTEIN andrewgrumman JC

Friends, I recently came across this beautiful book of Poetry - Please check it out: www.amazon.com II. Andantino in modo di canzona Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, was written in 1877--1878. It is in four movements: I. Andante Sostenuto—Moderato con anima (F minor) II. Andantino in modo di canzona (B-flat minor) III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato (F major) IV. Allegro con fuoco (F major) During the composition of the symphony, Tchaikovsky wrote to his patron, Madame Nadezhda von Meck, that he wanted "very much" to dedicate it to her, and that he would write on it "Dedicated to My Best Friend". The symphony's first performance was at a Russian Musical Society concert in St. Petersburg on February 10 (Old Style)/February 22 (New Style) 1878, with Nikolai Rubinstein as conductor. It is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, and strings. The second movement is tinged with melancholy and regret. Initial critical reaction to the work was unfavorable, and reaction to the premiere in the United States was similar. In 1890 a reviewer for the New York Post wrote, "The Fourth Tchaikovsky Symphony proved to be one of the most thoroughly Russian, ie semi-barbaric, compositions ever heard in the city. ... If Tchaikovsky had called his symphony 'A Sleigh Ride Through Siberia' no one would have found this title inappropriate." A reviewer in Germany in 1897 <b>...</b>

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No._4 Op. 36 BERNSTEIN andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Josef Suk (January 4, 1874 -- May 29, 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková (1878--1905), affectionately known as Otilka. He formed the Czech Quartet with three of his fellow students — Suk played second violin with them for most of his life. From 1922 he taught at the Prague Conservatory where his pupils included Bohuslav Martinů and Rudolf Firkušný. He died in Benešov. From the evidence of the Fantastic Scherzo, Opus 25, Josef Suk would seem to have been destined to follow an artistic path much like that of his father-in-law and teacher, Antonín Dvorák. It is a 15-minute work, brilliantly scored for full Romantic orchestra. Its style is not that close to that of Dvorák. Suk's harmonic language is a little more modern, something like that of the pre-Impressionist French composers such as Chabrier and Fauré. Nor was Suk as interested in evoking Czech musical folklore in his music. The work is in the typical scherzo rhythm of dotted triple-time groups, rather close in spirit to Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. It has less of the grotesquerie, mostly being good-spirited. The closest thing to it in mood among Dvorák's works is the Carnival <b>...</b>

Josef Suk Fantastic Scherzo Fantastique andrewgrumman JC

Passing Through: www.youtube.com - Friends, Please visit my Poet friend "Passing Through's" YouTube channel: www.youtube.com , and support him - Thanks :) Josef Suk (January 4, 1874 -- May 29, 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková (1878--1905), affectionately known as Otilka. He formed the Czech Quartet with three of his fellow students — Suk played second violin with them for most of his life. From 1922 he taught at the Prague Conservatory where his pupils included Bohuslav Martinů and Rudolf Firkušný. He died in Benešov. From the evidence of the Fantastic Scherzo, Opus 25, Josef Suk would seem to have been destined to follow an artistic path much like that of his father-in-law and teacher, Antonín Dvorák. It is a 15-minute work, brilliantly scored for full Romantic orchestra. Its style is not that close to that of Dvorák. Suk's harmonic language is a little more modern, something like that of the pre-Impressionist French composers such as Chabrier and Fauré. Nor was Suk as interested in evoking Czech musical folklore in his music. The work is in the typical scherzo rhythm of dotted triple-time groups, rather close in spirit to Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. It has less of the grotesquerie, mostly being good-spirited. The closest thing to it in mood among Dvorák's works is the Carnival <b>...</b>

Josef Suk Fantastic Scherzo Fantastique andrewgrumman JC

The Whole World Is With You - Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, In C Minor, Op. 67 I. Allegro Con Brio Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 180408. This symphony is one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of European classical music, and one of the most often played symphonies.[1] It comprises four movements: an opening sonata allegro, an andante, and a fast scherzo which leads attacca to the finale. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterwards. ETA Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the time". The first movement opens with the four-note motif discussed above, one of the most famous in western music. There is considerable debate among conductors as to the manner of playing the four opening bars. Some conductors take it in strict allegro tempo; others take the liberty of a weighty treatment, playing the motif in a much slower and more stately tempo; yet others take the motif molto ritardando (a pronounced slowing through each four-note phrase), arguing that the fermata over the fourth note justifies this. The first movement is in the traditional sonata form that Beethoven inherited from his classical predecessors, Haydn and Mozart (in which the main ideas that are introduced in the first few pages undergo elaborate development through many keys, with a dramatic return to the opening section—the recapitulation—about <b>...</b>

People Iran Freedom Beethoven Symphony No five andrewgrumman JC