Enough already! With another “excessive heat warning” in effect this afternoon and heat index values expected to hit 106, let’s seek some musical relief, shall we, with works evocative of water, of winter, of cooler climes, and of simply kicking back and taking it easy. So far we’ve had refreshment from the likes of Jacques Ibert, Ottorino Respighi, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Joan Tower and Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky. Tune in and chill out until 4:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.
Tag: Music
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Frank Zappa Music Time Is Boring
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
-Frank Zappa
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Music Tears and Memory Oscar Wilde
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
– Oscar Wilde, “The Burden of Itys”
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Music Goosebumps Brain Science Smithsonian
I was alerted to this article in the Smithsonian by Roberta Batorsky. Leave it to the Smithsonian to report on the science of the aesthetic chill, or goosebumps.
Check out Roberta’s blog, The Solipsist’s Soiree, always full of fresh links to interesting material.
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Shakespeare Music Princeton NJ Anniversary
If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.- Duke Orsino, “Twelfth Night,” Act I, scene 1
Are you played out on the Bard yet? April 23rd marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, and area musicians prepare to strut and fret their hour upon the stage.
Westminster Opera Theatre will present two performances of Verdi’s “Falstaff,” tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Robert L. Annis Playhouse on the campus of Westminster Choir College in Princeton. Allegedly the run is sold out, but there could be turn-ins.
On Sunday at 3 p.m., Westminster Conservatory of Music faculty singers Danielle Sinclair, Tracy Chebra, Timothy Urban and Krishna Raman will share a recital of Shakespeare in song as part of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Series. The free concert will take place in Gill Chapel on the campus of Rider University in Lawrenceville.
Next Thursday at 12:15, Mary Greenberg will present a program of Bard-inspired music for the keyboard, interlaced with readings from the Shakespearean sources, as part of Westminster Conservatory’s noontime concert series. The free recital will be given in the Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton.
Next weekend, on Saturday, the actual anniversary of the Bard’s death (also traditionally held to be the anniversary of his birth, 52 years earlier), The Princeton Singers will present “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” at 5:30 and 8 p.m. The concerts will be held at Princeton University Art Museum.
Finally, on Tuesday, April 26 at 7 p.m., The Merrie Companions – Rebecca Mariman, soprano, John Burkhalter, Renaissance recorders, and John Orluk Lacombe, lute – will present “Hamlet’s Castle, or Mr. Shakespeare’s Musicke.” The free concert will take place in the Community Room of Princeton Public Library.
Words, words, words. You can read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/04/classical_music_westminster_op_1.html
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