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  • Classical Music Today on The Classical Network

    Classical Music Today on The Classical Network

    As the day wanes, I’ll do my best to keep your late afternoon and early evening bright, here on The Classical Network.

    At 4:00, I’ll lead off with Arthur Foote’s “At Dusk.” This will commence an All-American hour, which will include a set of works by New England composers, all born in the 19th century. Then we’ll have a couple of pieces by Meredith Monk (on her birthday) and Robert Moran, respectively.

    “Music from Marlboro” gets an early start, at 5:50 p.m., to accommodate a complete performance of Franz Schubert’s Octet in F major, D. 803.

    What comes in between – in the gloaming, so to speak – is anyone’s guess.

    For now, I can pretty much guarantee a quintet of Americans and an octet of Schubert, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

  • Schubert’s Octet Marlboro Music Festival

    Schubert’s Octet Marlboro Music Festival

    It’s foolish to attempt to play something like the Schubert Octet all by yourself. Many have tried – mad dreamers! – only to come up looking ridiculous. Not even the gloss of extraneous percussion instruments or transposition to the banjo can disguise the bald fact of the matter – that to really enjoy this work as Franz Schubert intended, you can’t do better than eight superb musicians from the Marlboro Music Festival.

    On the next “Music from Marlboro,” we’ll hear Schubert’s Octet in F major, D. 803, performed in its entirety, by violinists Joseph Genualdi and Felix Galimir, violist Steven Tenenbom, cellist Peter Wiley, double-bassist Peter Lloyd, clarinetist Shannon Scott, bassoonist Alexander Heller, and hornist David Jolley. Marlboro musicians toured the piece, alongside Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” in 1987.

    Tune in for this expansive masterwork a little earlier than usual – there’s too much melody and charm to be confined within a single hour – this Wednesday evening at 5:50 EST. It pays to be a team player. One can’t outscore the Octet, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

    Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

  • Haydn’s The Seasons On Air Now

    Haydn’s The Seasons On Air Now

    On the air right now: some well-seasoned music by Franz Joseph Haydn. Until 4 p.m. EST, it’s a complete performance of his oratorio “The Seasons.” If you hurry, you might be able to catch a hit of spring! Haydn is a man for all seasons, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

  • Nancy Deussen Gershwin’s Secret?

    Nancy Deussen Gershwin’s Secret?

    Composer Nancy Bloomer Deussen has died at the age of 88, and for the second time in two years, there are murmurs about an illegitimate child of George Gershwin. Deussen’s mother, Julia Van Norman, was exceptionally close with Gershwin, perhaps closer than the Gershwin estate would have liked.

    For her part, Deussen never wished to exploit her possible kinship to promote her own music, so perhaps it’s a disservice to her memory to even mention it. I only do so, because still fresh in the memory is the death last year of Alan Gershwin, who always insisted he was George’s son.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/obituaries/alan-gershwin-who-claimed-a-famous-father-is-dead-at-91.html

    Alan was 91. I must say, the resemblance is uncanny.

    Georgie be good!

    Deussen’s “Night Forest” for Native American flute:

    PHOTOS: Nancy Bloomer Deussen and, top to bottom, George Gershwin, Alan Gershwin, and juicy Gershwin scandal rag

  • Nancy Deussen Gershwin Secret Dies

    Nancy Deussen Gershwin Secret Dies

    Composer Nancy Bloomer Deussen has died at the age of 88, and for the second time in two years, there are murmurs about an illegitimate child of George Gershwin. Deussen’s mother, Julia Van Norman, was exceptionally close with Gershwin, perhaps closer than the Gershwin estate would have liked.

    For her part, Deussen never wished to exploit her possible kinship to promote her own music, so perhaps it’s a disservice to her memory to even mention it. I only do so, because still fresh in the memory is the death last year of Alan Gershwin, who always insisted he was George’s son.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/obituaries/alan-gershwin-who-claimed-a-famous-father-is-dead-at-91.html

    Alan was 91. I must say, the resemblance is uncanny.

    Georgie be good!

    Deussen’s “Night Forest” for Native American flute:

    PHOTOS: Nancy Bloomer Deussen and, top to bottom, George Gershwin, Alan Gershwin, and juicy Gershwin scandal rag

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