A music blog written by Rich Brown
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 →
The Chaconne from the Partita for Violin No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for solo violin, or any solo instrument for that matter. It was written between 1717 and 1720, during the high Baroque period of music history. A little clarification on terminology is in... Continue Reading →
There is a region in Northwest France that is named Brittany. This is the home of the ethnic group of Bretons, who speak the ancient Celtic language of Breton. This language is related to Cornish, and more distantly related to Welsh. The ancestors of the Bretons came to this part of France over 1,000 years... Continue Reading →
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