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  FAQ: rec.music.classical
Last modified: June 5, 1995 --- Table of contents: Q1.
A famous violinist's recording of The Four Seasons will in almost all cases sell better than that violinist's recording of an unknown work, even if the unknown work is musically strong.
Of the songs he adapted, some are in Latin and some are in Middle High German (much as Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" is in Middle English).
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 SONO Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Gospel songs, the heart of American music, are considered by some musicologists to be the roots of blues and jazz.
The last four songs are recorded with the help of two very fine New Orleans musicians.
They say anything can happen in New Orleans, and these four songs are a great example of the musical magic that can occur when good musicians are given the freedom to play what they feel.
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 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Richard Strauss
Pauline de Ahna 1894 and wrote many songs for her, appearing as her accompanist.
Moved to Switzerland 1945-9, where in 1947-8 he wrote his last masterpiece, the Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) for sop.
His last work, completed 23 Nov. 1948, was a song Malven (Knobel), ded.
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 Alumni of The Royal Winnipeg Ballet of Canada
She also danced lead roles in Nils Christe's Translucent Tones (1979), Rudi van Dantzig's Four Last Songs (1977, 1980), Vicente Nebrada's Our Waltzes (1976, 1980), Toer van Schayk's Seventh Symphony (1986), Jiri Kylian's Symphony in D (1976, 1984) and the Pas de Quatre from Giselle among others.
As a visual artist she has shown four of her paintings at the Norwood Art Show in 2000.
He left the RWB in 1974 and spent four years with John Neumeier in Hamburg dancing Fritz in Neumeier's Nutcracker, the Groom in Jerome Robbins' Les Noces and the Son in Oscar Araiz's Family Scenes.
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 The Horn Players' FAQ, V 0.58
This is version 0.58 of the Horn Players' FAQ, last modified on 22 Aug 05, 11:13:08 EDT.
Most of the following four sections were inspired by a question from Karen Comer.
Most modern horns are known as "double" horns - not because there are two of them, but because they are equipped with a "trigger" valve (usually at the thumb) which changes the pitch of the instrument from F to Bb.
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 God of the Machine (09/27/2003): "What Not to Read"
How does it help us to appreciate Four Last Songs to know that he wrote them about himself?
Life of Johnson is not really a biography in the modern sense; it is a record of Johnson's brilliant table talk.
Also, he quotes his own Tod Und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration, for those of us who don't speak German) in one of the songs, making the connection musically explicit -- but, unless one was familiar with the earlier work, this is something that would go unnoticed.
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Barbara Bonney - Diamonds in the Snow (Nordic Songs) / Pappano, by Decca
Strauss: Four Last Songs / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, by Deutsche Grammophon
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