Haydn's Symphony No. 88 - Paul Gilbert Cover By Annie Grunwald

Check out this amazing video by young and talented guitar women. The song she was covering is Haydn's Symphony No. 88, Paul Gilbert's version (Originally written by Joseph Haydn). Annie Grunwald says: I recorded this video last year in December and decided to post it now... It'

Anniversary Accolades coming soon

Saturday 4th at 7:30 pm and Sunday 5th at 3:00 pm, July 2009 Anniversary Accolades - Celebrating Classic Choral Composers St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin Get your tickets NOW!!! The City of Dunedin Choir presents music by Handel, Purcell, Mendelssohn and Haydn. In 2009 we celebra

Chamber Music Northwest opens with robust Haydn and Mendelssohn

Haydn and Mendelssohn have been dead for a very long time, but their presence is felt every time their music is played by virtuosic musicians like the ones who took the stage last night at Chamber Music Northwest’s opening concert series. I attended the concert at Catlin Gabel

H.L. Mencken on Music

H.L. Mencken on Music Louis Cheslock, ed. New York:  Schirmer A few days ago, as a belated birthday treat to myself and in celebration of the end of a long work cycle, I visited Bookhaven, Philadelphia's finest vault of used books.  This is one of those places in which there is

Haydn: The Seasons

Haydn was led to write The Seasons by the great success of his previous oratorio The Creation (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe. The libretto for The Seasons was provided to Haydn, just as with The Creation, by Baron Go

We love you Papa

On this, the 200th anniversary of the death of Franz Joseph "Papa" Haydn, I would like to present this lovely video tribute created by the city of Vienna in honor of the occasion. There was perhaps no composer in Vienna who was loved more than Haydn.... (

Gleanings from this month's Opera magazine

Rather later than usual, here are my gleanings from the May edition of Opera magazine. The interview is with Christopher Purves, who is currently singing Falstaff at Glyndebourne. He comments that he finds sight-reading easy but difficult to learn music - its gratifying to learn

Ten Commandments - One Savior

Lenten Sermon Series Passion Reading: Mark 14:1-25 The First Commandment: Dear Lenten worshippers of Christ our Lord; Christianity is a religion for broken people. That is what Jesus meant when He said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sickâ€

Ten Commandments - One Savior

Lenter Sermon Series Passion Reading: Mark 14:26-42 The Second and Third Commandments: Dear hearers of the Word: To find the mother lode of what someone believes, look at a hymn they compose. A good hymn stanza can’t use empty words. Foundational thoughts must be boiled down

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini y su Musica de Camara

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (1743-1805) Violonchelista virtuoso, compositor de música de cámara para quintetos de cuerdas con 11 conciertos para violonchelo. Dentro del período clásico, Luigi Boccherini es siempre el gran olvidado, a pesar de la estima que le profesaron músicos

Daniel Levy - El Arte del Piano - de Bach a Rachmaninoff

Información Recopilada de GenteBa: http://www.genteba.com.ar/espectaculos/musica/nov06/musica01_151106.html "Mi piano es para mi lo que una nave es para el marinero, o el caballo para el árabe y aún algo mas. Hasta ahora ha sido mi mismo ser, mi voz, mi vida. Es el depositar