Summer 2021 is on the wane. Autumn begins tomorrow afternoon at 3:20 EDT.
Felix Mendelssohn, “Fantasy on ‘The Last Rose of Summer’”
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, “Variations on ‘The Last Rose of Summer’”
And for a change of pace…
“Late Summer Nights” by Wilhelm Stenhammar
I only just realized, 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of Stenhammar’s birth! Here’s an analysis of the first movement of “Late Summer Nights”:
ADVENT CALENDAR – DAY 23
All right, I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this Advent calendar!
All I want to do is write about La Befana, the Christmas witch, and those maddening Icelandic Yule Lads, but now I’ve basically got a little over 24 hours to write my scripts, do my production work and complete my Christmas shopping, which I haven’t even begun (the joy of getting paid by invoice).
I’m actually writing this while I’m on hold, trying to order a gift after somebody’s website failed to process my order. That’s what I get for trying to buy directly from the company, as opposed to Amazon. Now I’m tied in, since I’m not sure if my card went through. No good deed goes unpunished, even at Christmastime.
At least my cat is entertained by “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” as it blares tinnily over my speaker phone. I think I need to cool down with a good, Swedish snowball fight.
Here’s Wilhelm Stenhammar’s “Midvinter”:
And juicy Jussi Bjöerling singing “O Holy Night”:
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