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The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – In The Bleak Midwinter – Gustav Holst
December 23, 2016 in Music | Tags: Holst, In the Bleak Midwinter, The DWR Friday Choral Interlude | by The Arbourist | 4 comments
Sang this tune at the holiday concerts this year. The tenor part is all over the place (the usual), but well worth learning and singing. :)
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The DWR Friday Christmas-ish Baroque Interlude – A. Vivaldi: RV 589 / Gloria in excelsis Deo in D major
December 16, 2016 in Music | Tags: A. Vivaldi: RV 589 / Gloria in excelsis Deo in D major, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude, Vivaldi | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Telemann Concerto for 4 Violins in G+ TWV40
December 9, 2016 in Music | Tags: Concerto for 4 Violins in G+ TWV40, Telemann, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude | by The Arbourist | 1 comment
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family’s wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Zary, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the city’s five main churches. While Telemann’s career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.
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The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Ave Maria – Caccini
December 2, 2016 in Music | Tags: Ave Maria, Caccini, The DWR Friday Choral Interlude | by The Arbourist | 2 comments
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The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in A Minor RV356
November 25, 2016 in Music | Tags: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude, Violin Concerto in A Minor RV356, Vivaldi | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
Antonio Vivaldi
Born: Venice, March 4, 1678
Died: Vienna, (buried July 28, 1741)
Another Italian composer and virtuoso violinist, Antonio Vivaldi is remembered today for the enormous number of concertos he composed throughout his lifetime. He most likely learned the violin from his father, himself a violinist at St. Mark’s in Venice. Antonio took holy orders to enter the Catholic Priesthood, and became known as “The Red Priest” due to the color of his hair. He became a teacher in Venice at the Ospedale della Pietà (a school for foundling girls) in 1703, and later became the director of concerts there. His music was extremely popular, and he traveled a great deal over Europe, spreading his fame as a violinist and composer. During the 1730s, however, his popularity began to abate and in 1738 he was dismissed from the Ospedale. Desperate, he eventually settled in Vienna in 1740, hoping to reclaim his fame. He didn’t, and he died there the next year, to be buried in a pauper’s grave.
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The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Scarlatti Sonata Guitar Transcriptions (K1)
November 18, 2016 in Music | Tags: Classical Guitar, Scarlatti, Sonata K1 | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
Of course, the original we’re not savages here at DWR. :>
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The DWR Friday Remembrance Day Choral Interlude – Dona Nobis Pacem – Caccini
November 11, 2016 in Music | Tags: Caccini, Dona Nobis Pacem, Give us Peace, The DWR Friday Choral Interlude | by The Arbourist | 2 comments
Give us peace.
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