cover photo by Sebastian Unrau on Unsplash I said this was a thing I was going to do, and I’m finally sort of getting around to it. I came to know Mahler’s symphonies very much out of order. To my … Continue reading Memories: Mahler 1
performed by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra under … someone, perhaps the composer. And now… for something completely different. We went from a nine-week discussion of some quite heavy German(ic) music, to a brief discussion of some Eastern European music … Continue reading Alfred Reed: Armenian Dances
performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind EnsembleAwesomely cool easy to follow condensed conductor’s score with notes here (PDF)Music You Can Understand: Part 5 https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/k8oRPbjZt4Q&source=uds So this is like…. Different. And also, before you listen to it, in my experience and those of my classmates in high school, this piece is an earworm of the worst kind. In my About Me page, I mentioned band in high school. I never had any formal (or even informal, really) musical training. I remember once when our director told a percussionist to go play a C major chord and then a … Continue reading Percy A. Grainger: Children’s March (or ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’)