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Fantasia on the classical music repertoire.(Music)
THE MOZART INDUSTRY is working overtime in his 250th birthday year. Soon the Austrians may have to outsource the manufacture of those delicious Mozartkugeln to Taiwan or South Korea, causing unemployment in Salzburg and Vienna. But of course Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has always been a top performer, a champion in the public taste competition.
My statistics show this clearly. They go back over some sixty years of addictive concert-going, and by the end of 2005 covered exactly 11,233 music events heard live, containing 73,585 performances of 23,260 different works by 3257 composers. Had computers been invented when I began this pedagogic exercise, my task would have ...
- Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4, Mass in G minor, Six Choral Songs to Be Sung...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century December 16, 2008 700+ words
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4, Mass in G minor, Six Choral Songs to Be Sung...Richard Hickox. Chandos, $18.98. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vaughan Williams's martial and acerbic fourth symphony gets a muscular performance...
- Boston University School of Music Performs All Vaughan Williams Program at...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 7, 2006 700+ words
...performing Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No...premier venue for classical music, is a fitting site...generation, Ralph Vaughan Williams was a key figure...world wars that Vaughan Williams composed two of...
- Double double.(Ralph Vaughan Williams, Symphony No.4)(Sound Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound July 1, 2005 700+ words
...around Tom Lyle and I are comparing two recordings of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No.4, pitting a well regarded rendition...on an inexpensive label so that those just getting into classical music can get the opportunity to hear something exciting and...
- Reviews of new classical music releases.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service October 16, 2001 700+ words
...Jarrett's orchestral pieces sound like a cross between Vaughan Williams and Bartok at his most ingratiating. Joel had classical piano training, and claims a lifelong love for classical music. And these dozen solo piano pieces evince scarcely...
- Flashback: Phil's tribute to grand old man of classical music.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) November 26, 2005 700+ words
...that time, he had become the grand old man of British classical music, having outlived William Walton and Benjamin Britten...carried into a new generation the mantle of Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams. Tippett had a long relationship with Liverpool, and...
- An upstart makes money on high culture. (Enterprising: business as an act of...
- Magazine article from: The American Enterprise Wooster, Martin Morse January 1, 2002 700+ words
...year. And while classical music lovers are ignoring...into the world of classical music. He began to import...major player in the classical music world. He saw that...symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Naxos is happy...
- Classical music performers kick into high gear as 2003 begins.(Time Out!)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) January 3, 2003 700+ words
...there's little time for rest in the classical music world as area organizations' subscription...works chosen by Pappano are Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas...a pair of British works: "Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Wasps" overture and George...
- Much on tap this week for classical music fans.(Arts and Literature)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) February 26, 2009 700+ words
...Bob Keefer The Register-Guard Classical music fans have it good this week in Eugene...singing songs by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, accompanied by Sonja Thompson on...concerts Along the Field: Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams What: Soprano Maria Jette, with...
