This week’s Rhapsodies we bring out the funk with William Goldstein’s Midnight Rhapsody. Enjoy ’cause this one rocks! http://youtu.be/VvZeZ9i753g
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I’m a big fan of different performers doing their unique takes on the same song. The different takes on these friends are always fascinating both in arrangements and even context. Take the song “House of the Rising Sun” for example. Growing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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A very happy one hundred and fifteenth birthday to Duke Ellington. Let’s celebrate with a recording of “I Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues”
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Well this crazy month is nearly done. And I now mostly have a handle on it with a new place located and only about two days of packing housecleaning and a few other things left to do. Now the only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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A very happy 88th birthday to Mr. Miles Davis. Let us celebrate by listening to him run the Voodoo down. http://youtu.be/kRo-qLOu2qM Note much to my embarrassment this post was originally done on the third due to having the date[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Now that we’re back in business It’s time to drum up the regular features starting with the Tuesday Rhapsodies. And who better to start with but with good old Franz Liszt, but not, emphasis NOT, another Hungarian Rhapsody. I know![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This week’s rhapsody is “Footsteps” a Bulgarian dance rhapsody by Vladimir Djambazov and was his winning entry in the 13th Grand Prix of the International composing competition “Rhapsody in 7/8” of the St. George Foundation.
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This week’s Rhapsody is Asian Fold Rhapsody arranged by Richard Saucedo. It includes such Asian folk tunes as the upbeat Chinese The Bamboo Flute, the Japanese Sakura and the Korean Ahrirang. So here it is performed by theGMEA District 9 Middle School[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I can’t believe I’m using this one. But since the Michael Bay version just came out (a movie I have no intention of seeing) that’s as good an excuse as any. I was probably too old to ever really get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Hope everyone has a fun and safe Fourth of July! I’ll report mine later. Anyway here’s some music to start things off. For whatever reason Aaron Copland is the first person I think of when I think “American Composer” and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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