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Minnesota Orchestra – Osmo Vänskä conducts the posthumous premiere of Jaakko Kuusisto’s Symphony [live mnorch webcast].

Jun 4, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Ramblings, Videos

Jaakko Kuusisto (What follows is as much a Ramble as a Concert Review.) Friday, June 3, 2022: I watched this, http://www.colinscolumn.com/tomorrow-osmo-vanska-minnesota-orchestra-livestream-includes-jaakko-kuusisto-symphony/, primarily for the late Jaakko Kuusisto’s...

Something for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: Sir Hubert Parry’s I Was Glad (1902, for Edward VII’s Coronation). Conductor not credited! I think it’s Philip Ledger for an HMV recording.

Jun 2, 2022 | Ramblings, Videos

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (1848-1918) “Sung by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. with the Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, the Band of the Royal Military School of Music, and the New Philharmonia...

Just been listening (from 8 a.m.) to the latest Hancock on BBC Radio 4 Extra, a classic Galton & Simpson episode retelling Tony’s WWII adventures. Hattie Jacques, Sid James, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams as the regular cast. Repeats today at midday and 7 p.m.

Jun 1, 2022 | Comedy, Ramblings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jp18 https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7l

Welcome to June, which is Bustin’ Out All Over. From Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (the 1956 film).

Jun 1, 2022 | Ramblings, Videos

Gringolts Quartet @ Wigmore Hall; May 16, 2022. Music by Stravinsky (Three Pieces) & Schoenberg (String Quartet No.1 in D-minor, Opus 7).

May 23, 2022 | Ramblings, Videos

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) As initially listened to live on BBC Radio 3, this lunchtime forty-seven-minute account of the Schoenberg, music that plays continuously (with echoes of Verklärte Nacht), was a particular revelation. Delighted to now share it....

A change at the Oakland Symphony tomorrow, Friday the Twentieth … no Tippett, Elgar instead.

May 19, 2022 | News, Ramblings, Videos

Noting that Leonard Slatkin was due to conduct Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (a WWII masterpiece) at this Oakland concert, https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/event/season-finale-leonard-slatkin/, I was hoping for a webcast (if Rhode Island can do one,...