Tag: Johan Wagenaar

  • Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration on KWAX Radio

    Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration on KWAX Radio

    ‘Tis true, we knoweth not f’r c’rtain at which hour Mr. Wm. Shakespeare wast b’rn, but baptiz’d wast he on April 26, 1564. Beest t so symmetry ev’ryone loves, his birthday is commonly obs’rv’d on the anniv’rsary of his lamentable death, which did occur on April 23, 1616. The party dost start early this m’rning, on “Sweetness and Light.”

    I desire you’ll joineth me f’r some lightheart’d Shakespearean inspirations by Johan Wagenaar, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Felix Mendelssohn (transcrib’d by S’rgei Rachmaninoff), Sir Thomas M’rley, and Erich Wolfgang K’rngold.

    Get thy day off to a valorous starteth, this Saturday m’rning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT. Partying is such sweet s’rrow on “Sweetness and Light, ” now exclusively on KWAX, the radio station of the Univ’rsity of ‘regon.

    Stream t, wh’rev’r thou art, at the link.

    https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

  • Mengelberg, Wagenaar, and Cyrano de Bergerac

    Mengelberg, Wagenaar, and Cyrano de Bergerac

    The conductor Willem Mengelberg was highly regarded for his performances of Mahler and Strauss with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, of which he was music director for 50 years. It’s hardly surprising, then, that this Straussian overture after “Cyrano de Bergerac,” by the Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar, would be right up his alley.

    Happy birthday, Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951).

    More on Wagenaar by clicking on “show more” on the website.

    “The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men’s hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.” – Cyrano de Bergerac

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