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Something new I’m trying. As you probably know, the title of the strip, Rhapsodies, is referring to Rhapsody: “a musical composition of irregular form having an improvisatory character.” I like that definition. It was a definition I could turn into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Okay for the next piece in our ongoing Tuesday Rhapsodies segment, Brahms’ Rhapsodies, Op. 79. I really should get into Brahms more. I mean I know just how experimental he was, how much of a personality he was… he had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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In today’s Rhapsody we demonstrate that the Rhapsody is not limited to classical music, and what better place to start then with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh Freddy, we hardly knew ye.
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Okay this week it’s back to basics with Franz Liszt and his Hungarian Rhapsody # 10
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For this week’s rhapsody we have Franz Liszt’s second Hungarian Rhapsody. Yes, yes, I know, we did Liszt last week but this time we have something special, Harpo Marx! I frequently have extremely mixed feelings about the musical numbers in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today something a little different. The mad scene from Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor. Okay, technically not a rhapsody, but it’s rhapsodic in form, so it counts.
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Today’s Rhapsody is Ton?i Hulji?‘s performed by Maksim Mrvica. I’m embarrassed to say I only heard of this one, as well as the performer until after I started researching more obscure rhapsodies but I really like it.
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A very happy One Hundred and Twelfth birthday to the great Duke Ellington. To commemorate the anniversary, allow me to share one of my favorites, New World a Comin’. Regrettably I wasn’t able to find a copy of the orchestral[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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