How birds and animals and have inspired and shaped classical music
How birds and animals and have inspired and shaped classical music Beasts and birds of all shapes and sizes have inspired composers in a remarkable variety of ways. Claire Jackson takes us on a zoological tour Published:
April 19, 2021 at 4:50 pm
‘The duck quacked and, in her excitement, jumped out of the pond,’ gasps David Bowie in his iconic narration of
Peter and the Wolf, recorded in 1977. ‘But no matter how hard she tried to run, she couldn’t escape.’ (Recent modernisations are more light-hearted: Alexander Armstrong and the London Mozart Players’ 2020 lockdown video sees the duck – a dog’s squeaky toy – enjoying a cocktail while reading
| 03/31/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) With no composer was Sir Thomas Beecham more closely associated than with Frederick Delius: Beecham made his first 78RPM documentation of Delius in the middle 1920s just after the invention of the electrical process; he recorded Delius throughout the period of electrical stylus engraving, continued to do so in the hi-fi years of the monophonic long-playing record, and made what were probably the first stereo recordings of Delius in the late 1950s and early 1960s, for EMI. The EMI stereo recordings have rarely, if ever, been out of the catalogue. They appeared initially in the United States in the late 1960s on the Seraphim label, on two LPs. EMI reissued them as a two-CD boxed set in the middle 1980s, and the current, semi-budget edition compiles the best of the older two-CD anthology, reworking the balances just a bit, and making them available at a lower price than previously. The highlight of the program is the wonderful, autumnal performa
Dinis Sousa has been appointed principal conductor of Royal Northern Sinfonia SAGE Gateshead has marked an important milestone in its recovery from the Covid-19 crisis with the appointment of young conducting star Dinis Sousa as principal conductor of Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS). At this time when communities in the North-East will need music and the arts more than ever, Sage Gateshead says it wants to meaningfully respond, bringing music’s vital role in improving health and wellbeing, education and learning, and in creating positive shared experience to benefit everyone across the region. This role is symbolised in this new appointment of the talented Portuguese conductor, who will move his base to the region to realise RNS’ contribution to this vision.
The Des Moines Symphony will perform its sixth “Live from the Temple” series concert, “Spring Serenade,” in a livestreamed program beginning at 6:30 p.m. March 18.
Richard Strauss’ “Serenade in E-flat Major” opens the show with lyrical woodwind and French horn melodies. Gounod’s “Petite Symphonie” and Mozart’s G Minor Symphony will follow.
The program concludes with Delius’ “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring,” using strings and clarinets to capture the composer’s impressions of the Norwegian countryside.
The performance at the Temple for Performing Arts by a reduced-size orchestra, spaced to ensure musician safety, will be accessible on the symphony’s website, dsmsymphony.org.
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