What’s New for the Silly Symphonies?
Anyone who’s read anything on this site has seen that I have been involved with a massive listening project, which has entered its fifth year this January. In the course…
What’s this all about? For information on My Symphonic Journey, please check out my initial post on the subject or my list of repertoire from each year of the program.
Anyone who’s read anything on this site has seen that I have been involved with a massive listening project, which has entered its fifth year this January. In the course…
Week Thirty-Seven: September 11 Three fun new pieces to enjoy this week. I’ll complete the Cav/Pag that I left dangling a few months back. Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana is one opera…
Depending on how it’s tallied, at some point around last week I spun my 200th classical music piece for the grand experiment that I thought may never have gotten out…
Week Thirty-One: July 31 Three new pieces to start out August. I’ve noticed the past few weeks have been quite out of the ordinary in my life, putting into situations…
Week Twenty-Five: June 19 Once again, it’s a week when all three categories come up for renewal, so that means it’s time to open up a new post.
Week Nineteen: May 8 Time for a clean slate of music this week. I’ve been on vacation this past week, and now it’s time to get back to business.
Week Thirteen: March 27 How many cases of tuberculosis can you fit into the opening weeks of a year of opera study? Let’s just say, “a few”, at least.
A set of three new pieces to study this week. One for each category.
This week features the holdover choral piece, in its second week, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610, joined by Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole and Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
It’s the first week of 2015, my first outing with three pieces vying for my attention. The first selection is always a major decision, and ends up representing the year,…