A music blog written by Rich Brown
Franz Joseph Haydn is one of the three giants of the Viennese Classical Style of music, along with Mozart and Beethoven. The works of these three men, in a style of music from the late eighteenth century, are still some of the most studied, recorded, and performed works in the genre of "classical" music... Continue Reading →
This piece by Lukas Foss (1922-2009) is fifty years old, but somehow captures exactly how it sometimes feels inside my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw5tnossm0U You can hear the world broadcast premiere of Phorion from 1967, performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Berstein in this second video. It is followed by a interview with... Continue Reading →
From Merriam-Webster dictionary: tintinnabulation: the sound of ringing bells I didn't really intend on having a summer sabbatical from blogging, but that is how it seems to have turned out. On the positive side, I did take the time to build a lot of stuff, including a large L-shaped desk from where I can write... Continue Reading →
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