A very happy birthday to Miles Davis. To commemorate this great man I am including a piece I have on my “Rhapsodies Soundtrack” for when I am writing, “I Could write a Book”
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Okay for today’s listening pleasure. Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane (rhapsodie de concert) as performed by Henryk Szeryng.
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Okay this one’s a bit of a stretch, but I have seen it defined it as such, and since I like to throw pop examples into the mix it’ll do. So this week’s Rhapsody is Scene’s from an Italian Restaurant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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And we’re back! today’s selection is Duke Ellington’s Creole Rhapsody
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Since it is the season, today’s Rhapsody is Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (Midsommarvaka, Midsummer Vigil) by the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén. More commonly called the Swedish Rhapsody (even though he wrote three of them.) It’s a nice little whimsical one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today’s selection American Folk Rhapsody by Clare Grundman
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Today’s Rhapsody is the Norfolk Rhapsody By Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Today’s Rhapsody is Bond’s Gypsy Rhapsody from their album Shine. I’m really fond of these “Classical Crossover” bands that take full advantage of the versatility of the stringed instruments, everything from groups like this to bands like Apocolyptica. If I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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For today’s Rhapsody we have a Hungarian Rhapsody that has nothing to do with Liszt! (well more accurately wasn’t composed by Liszt. David Popper and Franz Liszt’s lives did entwine. There’s two versions of this piece one for orchestra and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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A very happy 110th birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong. And what better way to celebrate it with “What a Wonderful World”. For which version of this is a toss up between the end of the original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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