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From: uncharee@Ingres.COM (Uncharee Arewasikporn)
Subject: REMINDER: 1992 FALL MUSIC PROGRAM 
Reply-To: uncharee@Ingres.COM (Uncharee Arewasikporn)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 20 Nov 92 01:53:34 GMT

		SAN FRANCISCO CITY CHORUS is proud to present

			1992 FALL MUSIC PROGRAM 

		There are 60 of us. We will be singing chorale pieces
		from the following composers: 
						BUXTEHUDE, 
						MONTEVERDI, 
						de VICTORIA, 
				           and 	ISAAC 

		DIRECTOR:	Frederick Goff
		ORGANIST:	Richard Mayer

		WHEN:		8 p.m., SATURDAY, NOV 21, 1992
				8 p.m., SUNDAY, NOV 22, 1992

		WHERE:		ST. DOMINIC'S CHURCH (Bush and Steiner)

		ADMISSIONS:	FREE (donations welcome) 

		If you are not doing anything that night or are in 
		San Francisco, please come and enjoy a night of music. 

	
(This is an activity of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department) 



		
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: ca_ac@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Brahms Violin Concerto
Organization: 
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:04:29 GMT

In article <1ecedlINN9a@agate.berkeley.edu>, henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew J. Henken) writes:
> In article <1ecavpINNt24@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott) writes:
> 
>>The Grumiaux version of the Brahms is good too, if you can find it (I
>>have it on 78, I don't know if he's made it to CDs. 
> 
> He did:  Philips Silver Line 420 703
> 
> The Brahms is paired with Bruch's Violin Concerto 1.
> 
> Great performance and disc.
> 
> Matthew J. Henken
> henken@ocf.berkeley.edu

Grumiaux made several recordings of this concerto. I know of two, which I
mentioned in my previous posting on this subject line. Grumiaux/Van Beinum
was recording in 1958 and Grumiaux/Colin Davis was recorded in the mid-to-
late sixties (I think!). I have the first one on LP and the second one is the 
one which is released on the Philips Silver Line. So I don't think one can 
assume that the version which Diarmuid Piggott mentions is this one, especially
since he says he has it on 78's. Perhaps Mr.Piggott could clarify which
recording he means i.e. conductor, orchestra, recording date etc.
							Alak Chakravorty
From: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: English Madrigals
Date: 23 Nov 92 02:41:39 GMT
Reply-To: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Organization: Digital Systems Co,  Atlanta, Ga

In article <9HFkuB5w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> r4smith@student.business.uwo.ca (Richard Smith) writes:
>Recordings of English madrigals done by the Kings Singers (before they 
>went pop) are pretty hard to beat

Excuse me...  BEFORE they went pop?  Their very first album
(Just re-released by Chandos) features a jazz trio as instrumental
accompaniment.
  Regarding their more recent repertoire, Josquin, Goffredo Petrassi,
John McCabe and Ned Rorem are hardly examples of "pop."  Sure,
they DO pop (and tenor Bob Chilcott is an excellent arranger).

Incidentally, the King's Singers' 25th Anniversary celebrations
are at hand this coming year, culminating in a special festival
on (if memory serves me well) May 2 in AnnArbor, Michigan.
That will also mark the retirement of the two remaining original
members, Simon and Alistair.

Cheers,

--Mark Gresham

dscatl!mgresham@gatech.edu

==========================
From: erwin@helsinki.ks.uiuc.edu (Edgar Erwin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: No More Shiny Nose!
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:18:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxtHBB.2xK
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


Does anyone know if there are any available recordings of Nicolas Slonimsky's  
``Five Advertising Slogans''?  I'd like to purchase a recording as a gift to an  
advertising major.

Ed erwin@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: k22164@kyyppari.hkkk.fi (Mikko Reinikainen)
Subject: Re: Music to calm down by
Date: 21 Nov 92 21:56:34 GMT
Organization: Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

In <1992Nov20.134606.13204@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:

>>Well what has the most calming effect on me, is the Chaconne from Bach's
>>d minor (I think?) partita for solo violin. In fact any of his solo violin
>>music is good for relaxing to, particularly if it is played by Josef Suk.

>Really? Bach's solo violin stuff is a little too frentic for me to calm
>down to. If i really wanted to calm down I usually go with some jazz

I intended to recommend the Bach solo-violin works myself; they are
just frentic enough to abolish your sorrows and the softly wave you to
the peaceful state of mind... 
Bach's works for solo cello do the trick even better!


	Mikko Reinikainen
	Finland



--
Mikko Reinikainen
k22164@kyyppari.hkkk.fi
Helsinki School Of Economics and Business Administration
Helsinki University/Faculty Of Law
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
Subject: Re: The Planets
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:37:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov2.234900.23259@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:

>Dutoit's *recording* is wonderful, as a performance it leaves
>something to be desired especially in the more "English" parts, such
>as the central section of Jupiter which is, to my ears, hopelessly
>unidiomatic. 

Deryk, I know this is a hard thing to analyze in words, but can you try
to describe what Dutoit does, or doesn't do, that strikes you as
unidiomatic here?  I have heard The Planets described (always by English
people) as essentially English music which outsiders don't perform
idiomatically, and as an outsider myself I really have no idea what
they're talking about.

Myself, I like Dutoit a lot (I've compared a great many recordings), and
might make it my first choice were there not an obvious flubbed entry in
the middle of Jupiter.  (I know, I've said this before.  Sorry.)  I
don't consider it flawless, but it comes closer than most others I've
heard.

>I think to dismiss Boult's (which one, BTW, he recorded it 4 or 5
>times) as "quite good" is also rather unfair on the man who "first
>made the planets shine" to quote the composer.

5 times, I think.  And his history with the composer is neither here nor
there; his performances have to make it on their own merits.  None of
them really make it for me (the 2 most recent are fine, but the field is
very competitive these days).

>Incidentally, for those who don't always insist on hi-fi, both of
>Holst's own recordings are avaiolable: the earlier, acoustic, one on
>Pearl and the later, electric, on Koch - coupled with
>Vaughan-William's incredible performance of his 4th symphony.

"Insisting on hi-fi" is a perfectly valid preference with this piece,
which is to a great extent "about" color, blend, and sonic impact.  We
can infer such things from those old recordings, but we can't really
experience them.

My own top Planets, by the way, is a Boston Symphony recording, but not
Steinberg's.  Ozawa, believe it or not.  His precision and their prowess
added up just right for this Philips recording, one of the last analog
orchestral recordings made.  Philips reissued it on a cheap LP, but not
as far as I know on CD (am I wrong?).  It's wonderful, and I say that as
someone who generally finds Ozawa lacking.

Jon Alan Conrad
From: das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Music to calm down by
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:22:21 GMT
Organization: Yet Another Graphics Project, Bellevue, WA

At work these days, I seem to be in a constant state of stress, and have
been thinking that some soothing music might help greatly.  I love classical
music, but don't have a whole lot of exposure to it.  I would greatly
appreciate recommendations for music that has a calming effect.

Thank you,

------
Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.ca.boeing.com  // ....uw-beaver!bcsaic!voodoo!das
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: mozart/handel - messiah
From: phoogenboom@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 21 Nov 92 16:58:52 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <1992Nov21.210951.18576@msc.cornell.edu>, tan@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (David Tan,Box 219 Baker Lab,54810,2720402) writes:
> From article <92325.172728IO21145@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, by <IO21145@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>:
>> I was wondering if anyone has ever seen references to a
>> revison of the "Messiah" by W.A. Mozart?
> 
> It's really a "reorchestration."  The orchestral parts have been augmented,
> most obviously by adding clarinets (which did not, of course, exist in Handel's
> time) and French Horns. 
> 
> 
> Dave
> 

Not only did they exist; Handel actually wrote for them (not much, and I am
afraid I have no specific references)
From: maher@umbc4.umbc.edu (Dr. Michael Maher; ACS (GUEST))
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Pavarotti on Italian Tenors
Date: 21 Nov 92 21:08:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County


I missed the PBS program on Pavarotti last night that 
also had clips of vintage tenors.  Could anyone summarize
what was said about some of these men?  I am particularly
interested in Martinelli.  Did they show any footage
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Bob Kosovsky)
Subject: NY Phil at Museum of TV & Radio
Reply-To: kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
Organization: Computer Center, CUNY Graduate School, New York NY 10036
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:12:49 GMT

In observance of the NY Philharmonic's 150 anniversary the Museum of 
Television and Radio (formerly the Museum of Broadcasting) has assembled
an interesting collection of broadcast time.  The museum is located at
25 West 52nd ST (off 5th avenue).  Their phone number is (212) 621-6800.

Among the highlights of their radio presentations are Toscanini conducting
Elsa Alsen and Paul Althouse in Act I, scene 3 of Die Walkure from 1932,
Bruckner 7th from Jan. 27, 1935, Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (yes, No. 1)
with Horowitz from Mar. 17, 1935, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 and
Mozart Piano Concerto in B flat, K. 595 - both with Serkin (in his US
debut) from Feb.23, 1936;  Barbirolli conducting Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
with Josef Hofmann from Dec. 27, 1936;  an all-Stravinsky concert 
conducted by the composer from Jan. 27, 1946;  Walter conducting Das
Lied von der Erde with Set Svanholm and Kathleen Ferrier in her US radio
debut from Jan. 18, 1948;  Mitropoulous conducting Elektra with Varnay
from Dec. 25, 1949, and excerpts of Wozzeck with Farrell and Harrell from
Apr. 22, 1951;  Bernstein in his famous radio debut from Nov. 14, 1943, 
Beethoven Piano Concert No. 2 with Glenn Gould (his Philharmonic debut) from
Jan. 27, 1957, plus lots of others including conducting of Boulez, De
Sabata, Stokowski, Metha.

Among the hightligths of their television presentations (yum!) are:
Mitropolous interviewed by Edward Murrow and a rehearsal of Falla's
Homenajes (Mar. 2, 1954);  Bernstein doing most of Beethoven's 9th
with Leontyne Price, Maureen Forrester, Leopold Simoneau, Norman
Scott (Nov. 30, 1958);  Several young people's concerts, including
"Who is Gustav Mahler" with last mvt. of Mahler 4th with Reri Grist and
selections from Das Lied von der Erder with William Lewis and Helen Raab
(Feb. 7, 1960);  Berstein conducting Bach D Minor Concerto with Glenn
Gould (Jan. 31, 1960);  The opening night of Lincoln Center with Bernstein
conducting the Gloria from Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with Eileen 
Farrell, Shirley Verrett, Jon Vickers and Donald Bell and the first part
of Mahler's 8th Symphony (Sept. 23, 1962), some of those Camera 3 shows
with Boulez (1975); and Horowitz and Mehta doing the Rachmaninoff 
3rd Piano Concerto (Sept. 24, 1978).

These are only a few of the more juicy things.  Get a schedule and
see if you can hold back your enthusiasm.

Bob Kosovsky
Graduate Center -- Ph.D. Program in Music(student)/ City University of New York
New York Public Library -- Music Division
bitnet:   kos@cunyvms1.bitnet        internet: kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
Disclaimer:  My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions.
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: mvalinis@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael J Valinis)
Subject: Re: Tuba
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:29:10 GMT

I don't know if Gerard Hoffnung wrote a concerto for tuba, but I know that he 
did invent the subcontrabass tuba (Listen to the first Hoffnung Festival 
album!!!) :-)
-- 
*>   Michael J. Valinis   -=+<*>+=-   mvalinis@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu   <*
*>=>  "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you  <=<*
*>+>=> don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." -Charlie Parker <=<+<*
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Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Hal Prentice)
Subject: Re: Marc Blitzstein
Organization: Broadcasting Services, Michigan State University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:01:15 GMT

In article <Bxpo1w.Dtu@acsu.buffalo.edu> ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod) writes:
>From: ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod)
>Subject: Marc Blitzstein
>Date: 14 Nov 92 14:54:00 GMT
>
>	Marc Blitzstein was a composer-lyricist back in the l930s-'50s.  He 
>wrote a couple of operas with a left-wing slant, e..g., "The Cradle Will 
>Rock", and also an opera ("Regina") based on Lillian Hellman's "The Little 
>Foxes."  He may be best known for his English book & lyrics to the Weill-Brecht
>"Threepenny Opera", wildly popular in the '50s (Louis Armstrong's version of 
>"Mack the Knife" used Blitzstein's version.)  I have been told that Blitzstein 
>died violently.  Can anyone on r.m.c provide information on this?  Thanks.
>
>--Seymour Axelrod, Psychiatry, State University of New York at Buffalo
>PTYAXEL@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU

Blitzstein died in 1964 as a result of a beating at the hands of some US 
Sailors in Martinique.  Blitzstein was gay and that is the supposed 
provocation for the violence done to him.

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From: rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Viola sola mind blowa (was Re: Tubas (was Re: Euphoniums (was: Tubas)))
Date: 19 Nov 92 10:39:38
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Mass., USA
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In-reply-to: coren@speed.osf.org's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:23:01 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.142301.22420@osf.org> coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:

   In article <DBROOKS.92Nov18231921@penge.osf.org>, dbrooks@penge.osf.org (David Brooks) writes:

   > You don't score a viola solo; it's a sola.

   Oh, right. How could I forget? (Of course, there are those who claim
   that you don't score a viola alone under any name if you know what's
   good for you; I'm not one of them, mind you.)

But if you don't, how do you get the viola to play pianissimo tremolo?
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From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
Subject: Re: Bernard Shaw quotes (was: Brahms)
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:48:35 GMT

In article <12NOV199213190783@portal.lasc.lockheed.com> le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel) writes:
>In article <BxM4Gt.Dtn@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, tony@cns.nyu.edu writes...
>>I can't resist adding George Bernard Shaw's view of Brahms to this (quoting
>>frommemory): "Brahms is like a gigantic baby, who insists on dressing himself
>>up as Bach or Handel, and making a prolonged and intolerable noise".
>> 
>GBS also had a couple gems re: Wagner.  He reported to a friend that he had
>just heard Wagner's Ring, "and lived".  And he also maintained that "Wagner's
>music is not as bad as it sounds."

According to my book of musical quotations "I have been told that
Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds" comes from the
autobiography of Mark Twain.

GBS did refer to 'tedious streches of joiner masquerading as
development sections' with regard to Brahms.

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
From: zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Brahms Violin Concerto
Date: 15 Nov 92 15:33:50 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Can anyone out there recommend a really passionate performance of the Brahms
Violin Concerto.  I've already heard Stern/Ormandy on CBS and Perlman/Giulini
on Angel, plus a few by relatively obscure East European orchestra whose names
escape me now.  They are all lacking for some reason or other.  I've also heard
a live TV version by Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg, and am tempted to get her
studio recording, but I've found she's not as exciting in the studio.

Also, a friend whose musical opinion I respect says Anna-Sophie Mutter's with
von Karajan on DG is disappointing as well.  I thought that would be 
definitive.

Any suggestions?

John
zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (David Vincenzetti)
Subject: Music to sharp me up (Was: Re: Music to calm down by)
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:30:05 GMT

In <3344@voodoo.UUCP> das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) writes:

>At work these days, I seem to be in a constant state of stress, and have
>been thinking that some soothing music might help greatly.  I love classical
>music, but don't have a whole lot of exposure to it.  I would greatly
>appreciate recommendations for music that has a calming effect.
>
>Thank you,
>
>------
>Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.ca.boeing.com  // ....uw-beaver!bcsaic!voodoo!das

There is no such classic music as far I can hear. Listening to those
delicious starry masters like Beethoven and Bash always makes me sharper
and quicker, I cannot even think of relaxing myself when I shoosh to
the sixth symphony by Anton Bruckner for istance. I suggest you to
listen to something more laughable like those so called rock music if
you really want to fall asleep in a few moments. Oh Brother, this is
just a suggestion.

Regards,
David
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Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: grogono@cs.concordia.ca (Peter Grogono)
Subject: Re: Bernard Shaw quotes (was: Brahms)
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:15:22 GMT


Shaw also wrote a commentary on a well-known speech of Hamlet,
using the style of a music critic:

"Shakespeare, dispensing with the customary exordium, announces
his subject at once in the infinitive, in which mood it is
presently repeated after a short connecting passage in which,
brief as it is, we recognize the alternative and negative forms
on which so much of the significance of repetition depends.
Here we reach a colon: and a pointed pository phrase, in which the
accent falls decisively on the relative pronoun, brings us to the
first full stop."

[For US readers: full stop = period.]


Peter
From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Looking for a source for composer prints
Date: 17 Nov 92 03:51:39 GMT
Organization: Columbia University

Anyone know a good source for prints of composer portraits?  I'm looking for
prints such as the standard portrait of Bach (the one where's holding a sheet
of music paper), the painting of Mozart and Nannerl at the piano with Leopold
standing with his violin, etc. 

Any sources?


--
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From: f1toyl@uta.fi (Topi Ylinen)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: Why not a rec.music.contemp group?
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:30:15 GMT
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland

Sounds good...
almost like rec.music.contempt


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Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
Subject: Re: Chopin Ballades
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 01:57:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.111943.1@pearl.tufts.edu> edente@pearl.tufts.edu writes:
>
>In my humble, perhaps clouded, undoubtedly stubborn, but deeply-felt
>opinion, there is one recorded musical performance that towers above
>all others - of any music, anytime, anywhere - that I have ever heard.
>That performance is Michelangeli's recording of Chopin's G minor Ballade
>on DG.  All of life and of death is contained in that piece, and 
>Michelangeli unleashes it all.  This is such a powerful, moving, poetic,
>rapturous performance that I can listen to it only once every few months.

It's one of my favourite pieces of Chopin, but, IMO, live performances
I possess by both Richter (an old Turnabout LP) and Barere (APR CD),
not to mention Joseph Hofmann's 50th anniversary at Carnegie Hall all
put Mr. M in the shade.

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.

Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Subject: Re: Name that Opera
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:15:20 GMT

In article <Nov20.033055.50452@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>  
hurben@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Mike Hurben) writes:
> What is the opera featured at the end of 'The Godfather, III' ???

It's Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana," a highly appropriate choice. The  
title means "rustic chivalry," but it is to be understood in an ironic  
sense, since the plot is full of murder and revenge -- much like "The  
Godfather" itself.

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
From: ca572@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark L. Stackpole)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: The worst composer ever
Date: 23 Nov 1992 21:23:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


	Not exactly "The worst", but certainly a front-line composer
 whose music is the most dull, awkward and tedious I have ever
 heard.
	Hector Berlioz.
From: sec@otter.hpl.hp.com (Simon Crouch)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:06:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Speaking of the Solti Ring...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.