Going through Marlboro withdrawal? “Music from Marlboro” may be on hiatus at WWFM – The Classical Network, but while we wait out the Coronavirus, there’s plenty in the larder to indulge your appetite for great chamber music performances at the website of the Marlboro Music School and Festival.
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Marlboro Music Chamber Delights Online
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Picture Perfect St Patricks Day Radio
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! “Picture Perfect” has been posted as a webcast.
Gentlemen, the drinks are on the house!
Well, they are…
https://www.wwfm.org/post/picture-perfect-march-13-presentiments-st-patrick
PHOTO: Barry Fitzgerald and his breakfast of champions
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Lost Chord Webcast Faith and Begorrah
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Faith and Begorrah! “The Lost Chord” has been posted as a webcast!
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St Patrick’s Day Classical Music Mixtape
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ST. PATRICK’S MIXTAPE
It pains me not to be there with you all today. I love programming for holidays, and St. Patrick’s Day is one of my favorites. Undoubtedly, I’ll be spinning wall-to-wall St. Patrick’s music at home. As a way of sharing some of it with you, here are some links to just a few of my favorites. You may be puzzled by the inclusion of composers like Handel, Beethoven, and Frank Martin, but everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! A hoist of my Irish coffee to you!
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, “Irish Rhapsody No. 5”
Sir Hamilton Harty, “Three Miniatures for Oboe and Piano”
Edward Joseph Collins, Irish Rhapsody “Hibernia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XykGEnuhiwcBeethoven, “Irish Folk Songs’ (with Robert White, Ani Kafavian, Yo-Yo Ma, and Samuel Sanders):
I. “The Pulse of an Irishman”
II. “The Kiss, Dear Maid, Thy Lip Has Left”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhGmLXcHa8III. “Come Draw We Round the Cheerful Ring”
Frank Martin, “Piano Trio on Irish Folk Tunes” (Martin was Swiss)
Sir Arthur Sullivan, “Irish Symphony”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzGMyQugBo8Sir Arnold Bax, “The Garden of Fand”
Samuel Barber, “Reincarnations” (on texts by James Stephens)
Ben Johnston, String Quartet No. 10 (a microtonal piece that teases a tune that – spoiler altert – blossoms into “Danny Boy!”)
Henry Cowell, “Two Bits for Flute and Piano”:
I. A Tuneful Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bswlYBNt20
II. A Blarneying Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Sp6UVY3qA
Ina Boyle, Symphony No. 1 “Glencree” (a pupil of Vaughan Williams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR3MF7wkBlIJoan Trimble, “Suite for Strings”
John McCormack sings:
I. “The Garden Where the Praties Grow”
II. “She Moved Thro’ the Fair”
III. “Off to Philadelphia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsFOtYmXFgGeorge Frideric Handel (arr. De Dannan), “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in Galway Bay”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8NhXtgG_A
Hard to stop there, but I’ll want to get this posted. Sláinte!
WWFM – The Classical Network
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Seward Johnson Sculptor Dies at 89
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I’ve been remiss in not mentioning the death of sculptor Seward Johnson, who died last week at the age of 89. If you’ve ever done a double take at an immoveable figure seated on a bench or banged your head against a bronze umbrella, chances are you are familiar with his work. Johnson was born in New Brunswick, NJ, in 1930.
He was especially adept at casting three dimensional realizations of works by the French masters, many of them on display at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, a 42-acre sculpture park he established in 1992. His sense of whimsy was evident, whether expanding the world of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” or casting a 26-foot Marilyn Monroe, caught in her iconic subway grate scene from “The Seven Year Itch.” Some would say he had the itch for kitsch. But Johnson was a populist at heart.
In his later years, he enjoyed leading sing-alongs of showtunes and American standards at Rat’s Restaurant, located on the grounds of Grounds. The grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I, founder of Johnson & Johnson, he also happened to be a nephew of Kirk Douglas.
PHOTO: “Unconditional Surrender,” by Seward Johnson
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