Musica della sera

All the music I found when I couldn’t find what I was looking for

Nicholas Mitchell — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 01:37:31 +0000

I think I have short-term memory loss.

Last night’s show featured all the music I found when I couldn’t find what I was looking for. Made for a pretty fun show, don’t you think?

Playlist for Thursday, August 27, 2015

Hosted by Meera Collier

Time (approx)	Composer	Selection	Performers	Record Title	Label
7:00	Hace Abdülkadir Meragi (1350? – 1435)	Segâh Kâr “Kâr-i Seş-âvâz”	Gürsoy Dinçer, Hespèrion XXI J. Savall, lira d’arc and others	La Sublime Porte: Voix d’Istanbul (1430 – 1750) (2011)	Alia Vox
	Duarte Lobo (c. 1565 – 1646)	▪ Audivi vocem de caelo ▪ Pater peccavi	Ars Nova Bo Holten, director	Portuguese Polyphony (1993)	Naxos
7:15	Gaspar Fernandes (c. 1570 – 1629)	Xicochi xicochi Conetzintle	I Cantori Edward Cansino, director	A Choir of Angels (1995)	Civic Classics
	Unknown (Inca) (publ. 1610)	Hanacpachap Cuissicuinin
	Gaspar Fernandes	Elegit Sum
	Tomás de Herrera (fl. 1611 – 1620)	Hijos de Eva Tributarios
7:30	Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)	L’Horizon Chimérique (Op. 118) ▪ La mer est infinie ▪ Je me suis embarqué ▪ Diane, Séléne ▪ Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés	Sanford Sylvan, baritone David Breitman, piano	L’Horizon Chimérique (1996)	Nonesuch
	Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963)	Banalités I. Chanson d’Orkenise II. Hôtel III. Fâgnes de Wallonie IV. Voyage à Paris V. Sanglots	Véronique Gens, soprano Roger Vignoles, piano	Nuit d’étoiles: Melodies Françaises (2000)	Virgin Classics
7:45	Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)	Trois Chansons ▪ Nicolette ▪ Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis ▪ Ronde	Cambridge Singers John Rutter, director	Cambridge Singers: A Cappella (1993)	Collegium
	Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959)	▪ Cor dulce cor amabile ▪ Magnificat-Alleluia	Choir of Gonville & Caius College Choirs Geoffrey Webber, director Liam Crangle, organ	Romaria: Choral Music from Brazil (2015)	Delphian
8:00	Carlos Salzedo (1885 – 1961)	Tango ▪ Tango ▪ Seguidilla ▪ Bolero ▪ Rumba	Mariko Anraku, harp	Mariko Anraku Plays… (1999)	EMI Classics
8:15	Gabriel Fauré	Pavanne, Op. 50	Bobby McFerrin, vocalist The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra	Paper Music (1995)	Sony Classics
	Heitor Villa-Lobos	Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 ▪ Preludio ▪ Aria (Modinha) ▪ Tocata (Catira Batida) ▪ Fuga	Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Jesus Lopez-Cobos, director Eric Kim, solo cello	Bachianas Brasileiras (1995)	Telarc
8:45	Enrique Granados (1867 – 1916)	Valses poéticos	Stephen Hough, piano	Stephen Hough’s Spanish Album (2006)	Hyperion
9:00	Julián Orbón (1925 – 1991)	Xylophone (Congo)	Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Eduardo Mata, conductor	Music of Latin American Masters / Orbon Villa-Lobos / Estevez Chavez / Eduardo Mata (1994)	Dorian
9:05	Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946)	Noches in los jardines de España	François-Joël Thiollier, piano Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Antoni Wit, conductor	Ravel • De Falla (1994)	Naxos

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Mozart at Seventeen (Poem)

Nicholas Mitchell — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:48:10 +0000

Mozart at Seventeen

by Claire Keyes

I’d done it again: locked out of my car
that evening after the concert.
No friendly red salute as I flicked the unlock icon.

No keys and my stupid car remained indifferent
while I made the dreaded phone call
to my husband with the news

and could he come to the rescue.
The only bright thing that night was the symphony
Mozart composed at seventeen,

the year his father brought him to Vienna
to seek a position in the court of Empress Maria Theresa.
Only Salieri had won the keys to the court

and there was nothing for Amadeus.
So what does he do?
He attends the symphonies of Haydn,

glorious and inventive,
and over a period of weeks produces a music
filled with restless, angular melodies,

the oboe and flute freed into colorful bursts
that force the violins to yield. Only in the andante
does he settle into more introverted passions.

He was a teenager after all, destined
to trump Salieri, some say even Haydn.
Though he doesn’t know this at the time.

Maybe suspects it, so that three centuries later
as I was walking towards my car one evening
after a concert, fishing for my keys,

Mozart seemed to whisper: In clarity lies the serene.

Poet Claire Keyes

“Mozart at Seventeen” by Claire Keyes from What Diamonds Can Do. © Cherry Grove Collections, 2015. August 23, 2015

─NM

angel trumpets and devil trombones

Nicholas Mitchell — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:38:03 +0000

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Fans of Wendy Carlos may enjoy hearing the music she wrote for Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” Unless I’m mistaken, these recordings are not commercially available in a digital format.

Stanley Kubrick did not use ”Timesteps” for his film. The two pieces that follow are the opening titles based on Purcell’s “Funeral Music for Queen Mary”, with sprinklings of the ominous “Dies Irae” theme, and then the Clockwork Orange theme (Beethoviana), emulating Ludwig Van’s particular style of inserting lilting filigree between notes of a theme.

The W. Carlos’ music for “A Clockwork Orange” begins at about the 115:20 time marker (streaming for this program will expire early Friday morning, 8/28. If the time counter isn’t visible from the blog page, try the secondary option: the KUSP Music Show Player.).

Playlist for August 20, 2015

Hosted by Nicholas Mitchell

Time (approx)	Composer	Selection	Performers	Record Title	Label
7:00	J.S. Bach	Kleines Harmonisches Labyrinth (Introitus, Centrum, Exitus), BWV 591; Fuge in C Minor, BWV 575; Partita sopra “O Gott,du frommer Gott”, BWV 767	Marie-Claire Alain, organ (Gottfried Silbermann of Freiberg)	Bach: Organ Works BWV 539, 545, 767	Erato
	W.A. Mozart	The 17 Festival Sonatas for Organ and Orchestra: No. 10 in F Major, K.244	E. Power Biggs, organ; The Columbia Symphony; Zoltan Rozsnyai, conductor	E. Power Biggs Plays Mozart: The 17 Festival Sonatas for Organ and Orchestra	Columbia (LP)
7:30	Georg Philipp Telemann	Sonata in A Minor for oboe and organ	Daniel Matrone, organ (Organ at the Cathedral of Agde); Jérôme Simonpoli, organ	Organ and Oboe	Jade
	W.A. Mozart	The 17 Festival Sonatas for Organ and Orchestra: No. 11 in D Major, K.245; No. 12 in C Major, K.263; No. 13 in C Major, K.274; No. 14 in C Major, K.278; No. 15 in C Major, K.328; No. 16 in C Major, K.329; No. 17 in C Major, K.336	E. Power Biggs, organ; The Columbia Symphony; Zoltan Rozsnyai, conductor	E. Power Biggs Plays Mozart: The 17 Festival Sonatas for Organ and Orchestra	Columbia (LP)
8:15	Frederic Chopin	Waltz in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No.2	Evegeny Kissin, piano	Evgeny Kissin Carnegie Hall Debut Concert	RCA Victor
	Franz Liszt	Liebestraum No. 3
	Sergei Prokofiev	Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 82
9:00	Walter Carlos	Timesteps; Title Music from A Clockwork Orange (from Purcell’s Funeral for the “Funeral of Queen Mary”); Theme From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)	Walter Carlos, synthesizer	Walter Carlos’ Clockwork Orange	Columbia (LP)
	Larry Kucharz	Adagio 43; Toccata 43 (fragment)	Larry Kucharz	SMPHNCS: Electronic Symphonics	International Audiochrome
	Craig Safan	Make the Sun Dance	Craig Safan	Rough Magic: Music Inspired by the Paleolithic Cave Paintings of Europe	Perseverence

─N.M.

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a baffling song, no words, only the music

Nicholas Mitchell — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 01:41:57 +0000

Against Endings

by Dorianne Laux

On the street outside the window
someone is talking to someone else,

a baffling song, no words, only the music

of voices—low contralto of questions,
laughter’s plucked strings—voices in darkness

below stars where someone straddles a bike
up on the balls of his feet, and someone else

stands firm on a curb, her arms crossed, two

dogs nearby listening to the human duet,
stars falling through a summer night

a sudden car passing, rap song thumping,

but the voices, unhurried, return, obligatos afloat
on the humid air, tiny votives wavering

as porch lights go out—not wanting it to stop—

and Mars rising over the flower shop, up
through the telephone wires

Dorianne Laux – Poet (photo links to where I found it)

“Against Endings” by Dorianne Laux from Facts About the Moon. © W. W. Norton.

The Writer’s Almanac for January 21, 2015

─N.M.

Alia Vox and More

Nicholas Mitchell — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:47:56 +0000

The Performer’s Voice

Tonight’s program features selections from some of my favorite recordings released by Alia Vox. From their website:

Since its creation in 1998, ALIA VOX has developed its role as the exclusive producer and publisher of all new recordings by Hesprion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Montserrat Figueras & Jordi Savall.

Enjoy!
–Meera

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Classical Music 7:00-9:30pm, Pacific Time

Playlist for Thursday, August 13, 2015

Hosted by Meera Collier

Time (approx)	Composer	Selection	Performers	Record Title	Label
7:00	Goussan Ashot	Plainte “En Sarer II”	Georgi Minassayan, Haig Sarikouyoumdjian, duduks	La Sublime Porte: Voix d’Istanbul (1430 – 1750) (2011)	Alia Vox
	Hace Abdülkadir Meragi (1350? – 1435)	Rast nakiş beste “Amed mesim-i”	Gürsoy Dinçer, Hespèrion XXI	La Sublime Porte: Voix d’Istanbul (1430 – 1750) (2011)	Alia Vox
	Anonymous, Cortona	Ave donna santissima Lauda novella	Trio Mediaeval: Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum	Words of the Angel (2001)	ECM New Series
	Traditional	Urruska Fandangoa	Enrike Solinís, David Chupete	Euskel Antiqva: Legacy of the land of Basque (2015)	Alia Vox
	J. de Antxieta (1462 – 1523)	Con amores la me madre	Euska Barrokensemble, Enrike Solinís, director Maika Etxekopar, voice	Euskel Antiqva: Legacy of the land of Basque (2015)	Alia Vox
	Ivan Moody (b. 1964)	Words of the Angel	Trio Mediaeval: Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum	Words of the Angel (2001)	ECM New Series
7:30	Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)	I am the True Vine	The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, director	Tintinabuli (2015)	Gimmel
	Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)	The deer’s cry (2007)	Polyphony, Stephen Layton, conductor	Arvo Pärt (2014)	Hyperion
	William Byrd (1639/40 – 1623)	Ave Verum Corpus	Chanticleer	Chanticleer: By Request (2012)	Chanticleer Records
7:50	Traditional	Por allí pasó un cavallero Por que llorax blanca niña	Montserrat Figueras, mezzo-soprano Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall, director	Diáspora Sefardí (1999)	Alia Vox
8:10	Jean Sieblius (1869 – 1957)	Rakastava, Op. 14 (“The Lover”)	Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier, director	Baltic Runes (2010)	Harmonia Mundi
	Erik Satie (1866 – 1925)	Gnossienne IV (1891) Gnossienne V (1889)	John White, piano	Erik Satie: Caresse (1995)	Arte Nova
8:25	Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921)	Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22	Vadym Kholodenko, piano The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, director	Grieg • Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos (2015)	Harmonia Mundi
8:50	Erik Satie	Le poisson rêveur (The Dreamy Fish)	Klára Körmendi, piano	Satie: Piano Works Vol. 4 (1994)	Naxos
9:00	Plainsong Arranged by Joseph Jennings	Beata	Chanticleer, Joseph Jennings, director	Sound in Spirit (2005)	Warner Classics
	Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 – 1611)	O sacrum convivium
9:15	Alfonso X de Castille (1221 – 1284)	Como pod’ a groriosa
	Traditional Catalan Arranged by Arianna Savall	El Mariner	Arianna Savall, soprano & harp	Invocation a la nuit: Musica Notturna (2008)	Alia Vox

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Playlist for August 6, 2015

Nicholas Mitchell — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:35:14 +0000

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Playlist for August 6, 2015

Hosted by Nicholas Mitchell

Marian Anderson by Richard Avedon, summer of 1955

Time (approx)	Composer	Selection	Performers	Record Title	Label
7:00	Enrique Granados	Valses Poéticos; Andaluza from Danzas españolas	Julian Bream, guitar	Julian Bream Plays Granados and Albéniz	RCA Red Seal
	Johannes Brahms	Theme and Variations for Piano: Allegro, ma moderato (Arrangement of the 2^nd movement from the String Sextet Op.18)	Emanuel Ax, piano	Brahms Sextets, opp. 18 & 36	Sony
7:30	Johannes Brahms	String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36	Isaac Stern and Cho-Liang Lin, violins; Jaime Laredo and Michael Tree, violas; Yo-Yo Ma and Sharon Robinson, cellos	Brahms Sextets, opp. 18 & 36	Sony
8:30	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor, Op. 18	Rafael Orozco, piano; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Edo de Waart, conductor	Rachmaninoff; Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra	Philips
9:00	Isaac Albéniz	Evocación; Triana	Stephen Hough, piano	Stephen Hough’s Spanish Album	Hyperion
	Trad. (Afro-American Spirituals)	Introduction; Oh, Heaven Is One Beautiful Place, I Know; I Been in de Storm So Long; Jus’ Keep on Singin’/Ride On, King Jesus!	Marian Anderson, contralto; John Motley and Franz Rupp, piano	He’s Got the Whole World in his Hands	RCA
	Stephen Sondheim	Medley: I Wish I Could Forget You/Loving You from Passion	Renée Fleming, soprano; Orchestra of Welsh National Opera; Paul Gemignani, conductor	Renée & Bryn: Under the Stars	Decca

─N.M.

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Nina Totenberg on her Dad and his Strad: Amazing!

Nicholas Mitchell — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:17:11 +0000

A Rarity Reclaimed: Stolen Stradivarius Recovered After 35 Years

by Nina TotenBerg

(Read it and see the wonderful photographs)

─N.M.

A Maddy-Shaped Hole in the Universe

Nicholas Mitchell — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 08:19:56 +0000

How on earth do we process the death of a child? How will anything be better, ever? How will we laugh again? How is it possible that the sun still rises and people have birthdays and dogs still bark and the clothes need to be washed and food prepared and parades still happen?

We have lost a child. Indeed, we have lost two children. The brokenness of one led to the death of another. Waves upon waves — not ripples, but waves — of brokenness spreads like wildfire after a drought. We all look to answer why, we yearn to understand, we try to take our own selves out of the equation to make the loss make sense. We add variables. Try to identify constants. We rationalize the irrational and try to balance the equation that doesn’t result in such an imbalanced loss. What could we have done differently. Who is to blame. We heap the intensity of our emotion onto anyone we can point to, saying he did it. She did it. It’s his fault. They didn’t do it right. If only this hadn’t happened. If only I had been there. If only anyone could have seen. If only anyone knew. If only somehow. If only.

Blame doesn’t help. No matter how we try, there is no sense, no logic; there is no fault, there is no reason. Nothing works to ease the raw wound that we all now carry.

When faced with emotions that are so raw, so livid and infected, I have to turn to art. There are not enough words, not enough tears, not enough logic in the universe to make sense of something like this, so the only thing to do is let it wash over and through. Just as the heat of the last week has made dogs pant in the shade and more grass to shrivel and go into dormancy, I have to let the emotion drain me dry. Listen to music, read poetry, draw, paint, cook, garden. “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten my hand”, but perfumes are cloying anyway, and emotion needs to color each expression.

Art has been dry, bitter, and prickly this week. I expect next week will be dark and empty, all in a minor key. After that, who knows. Stars will continue to make pinpricks in the velvet dark, scattering themselves across the Maddy-shaped hole in the universe.

And from this, maybe calm returns. Laughter will eventually come naturally, and the colors will reassert themselves in a field of wildflowers. We will remember.

–Meera

The poetry from tonight’s show are linked below in the playlist for tonight’s program, except for two by Ken Collier, which I read at the end of the program. The texts are below.

When I Die

It is a shameful thing to pass through life

Afraid to touch the flowers or sing with the birds,

Ashamed to fling off your clothes like children

And dive naked and carefree into mountain streams.

I want to feel the summer wind blowing,

My wet skin glowing in the warm sun;

I want to throw back my head and laugh

As freely as that hummingbird flying

From flower to flower intent on the scarlet and nectar.

When I die, I want people to say,

“We will miss his joy.”

What I Know

I do not know where we go when we die;

And I do not know what the soul is

Or what death is or when or why.

What I know is that

The song once sung cannot be unsung,

And the life once lived cannot be unlived,

And the love once loved cannot be unloved.

By Kenneth W. Collier

Used with permission.

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Playlist for Thursday, July 30, 2015

Hosted by Meera Collier

Time (approx)	Composer	Selection	Performers	Record Title	Label
7:00	Anonymous, 13^th c.	Saeta antigua O Lux: Flavit auster	MontserratFigueras	Lux Feminae	Alia Vox
	William Byrd	O magnum misterium Non vos relinquam	The Cambridge Singers John Rutter, conductor	Ave Verum Corpus (1989)	Collegium
	John Wilbye (1574 – 1638)	Draw on, sweet night Weep, weep mine eyes	Oxford Camerata Jeremy Summerly, conductor	English Marigals & Songs (1994)	Naxos
7:30	Richard Carlton (c. 1558 – 1638)	Sound saddest notes	Oxford Camerata Jeremy Summerly, conductor	English Marigals & Songs (1994)	Naxos
	Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695)	An Evening Hymn	Gérard Lesne, alto Il seminario musicale	Henry Purcell: O Solitude & Songs (2003)	Naïve
7:45	René Clausen (b. 1953)	Tonight Eternity Alone Text: Thomas S. Jones, Jr. (1882 – 1932): from Dusk at Sea	The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Stephen Layton, conductor	Beyond All Mortal Dreams (2011)	Hyperion
	Stephen Paulus (1949 – 2014)	The day is done Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 – 1882		Beyond All Mortal Dreams (2011)	Hyperion
7:50	Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)	Requiem (ed. Marc Rigaudière) I. Introit, Kyrie II. Offertoire III. Sanctus IV. Pie Jesu V. Agnus Dei VI. Libera me VII. In paradisum	Gerald Finley, baritone; Tom Pickard, treble Ken Aiso, violin; Douglas Tang, organ Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Stephen Cleobury, conductor	Fauré: Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine, Messe Basse (2014)	Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
	Dylan Thomas	Ceremony After a Fire Raid
8:20	Gerald Finzi (1901 – 1956)	Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31: Adagio	Richard Stoltzman, clarinet Guildhall String Ensemble, Robert Salter, director	Richard Stoltzman: Finzi (1991)	RCA Victor
8:35	Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981)	Agnus Dei	Robert Shaw Festival Singers	Evocation of the Spirit (1995)	Telarc
8:50	Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)	O vos omnes	The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, director	Hail, Gladding Light: Music of the English Church (1991)	Collegium
8:55	Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)	When David Heard	Polyphony, Stephen Layton, conductor	Cloudburst (2006)	Hyperion
9:05	Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)	Ubi Caritas	Polyphony, Stephen Layton, conductor	Morten Lauridsen: Lux aeterna (2005)	Hyperion
9:20		Dirait-On	Jane Thorngren, soprano James Drollinger, baritone Morten Lauridsen, piano	Lauridsen: Northwest Journey (2000)	RCM
9:25		Where Have the Actors Gone	Sunny Wilkinson, mezzo Shelly Berg, piano	Lauridsen: Northwest Journey (2000)	RCM

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More from the organ at Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz

Nicholas Mitchell — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00:03 +0000

The Holy Cross Catholic Church, Santa Cruz California

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Playlist for July 23, 2015

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Two weeks ago I featured an excellent recording of the Felgemaker/Goodwin pipe organ at Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz, in a performance of Alexei Parshin from the album “On a Mission from Russia”. Tonight we’ll hear his student, Vlada Volkova-Moran, play this local treasure of an instrument. On the night of my radio show two weeks ago, I was not aware that she was going to be performing that Saturday at the Boomeria benefit concert, or I would have featured her performance and told you about the performance on Preston Boomer’s own wonderful pipe organ! Alas, I was not able to attend myself, put if you did, tell us about it! I’d love to what the experience was like.

Also on tonight’s show I’ll share more from my recent CD acquisitions as well as new arrivals to the KUSP library. Tweet your comments and requests to our new Twitter account: @mdsKUSP. It could use some traffic! (Unlike some of us frustrated drivers.)

Time (approx)	Composer	Selection	Performers	Record Title	Label
7:00	Gregorian	Antiphon: Alleluia, lapis revolutus est (Mode V)	The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos	Easter Chant	Milan
7:00		Vidimus stellam eius – Alleluia; Tribus miraculis – Magnificat-Antiphon; Hostis Herodes impie-Hymn; Videntes stellam Magi – Magnificat-Antiphon – Hodie nobis beata illuxit – Antiphon; Antiphon & Psalm 71	Schola Cantorum of Cologne; Gabriel Maria Stenschulte, director	Chant IV: The Millenium	Angel
	J.S. Bach	Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 636	Vlada Volkova-Moran, organ (The Felgemaker/Goodwin pipe organ at Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz)	On a Mission from Russia	a-ram
	Gregorian	Epiphany Vigils: Responsory “Illuminare”; Te Deum;Gospel	The Trappist Monks of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky	Behold! Three Wise Men Came out of the East	Sony
7:30	J.S. Bach	Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 552b	Alexei Parshin, organ (The Felgemaker/Goodwin pipe organ at Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz)	On a Mission from Russia	a-ram
	Gregorian	Epiphany Lauds: Hymn “Illuminas Altissimus” with Versicle and Response; Benedictus and Antiphon; Kyrie and Pater Noster; Prayer and Concluding Versicles and Responses; Veterem “Hominem” Antiphons	The Trappist Monks of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky	Behold! Three Wise Men Came out of the East	Sony
	J.S. Bach	Prelude, Largo and Fugue in C Major, BWV 545	Vlada Volkova-Moran, organ (The Felgemaker/Goodwin pipe organ at Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz)	On a Mission from Russia	a-ram
8:00	Giovanni Gabrieli	Quem vidistis pastores?; Canzon IV a 6; O Jesu mi dulcissime; Canzon per sonar a 4; Jubilate Deo; In ecclesiis*; Timor et tremor	Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Stephen Cleobury, conductor; Charles Brett, counter tenor; William Kendall and Peter Hall, tenors; Ian Caddy, bass; *Thomas Elias treble	Giovanni Gabrieli: The Glory of Venice	Argo
8:45	Alessandro Scarlatti	Concerto grosso No.4 in G Minor	Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, violin and direction	A&D Scarlatti: Concerti & Sinfonie	Virgin Veritas
	Domenico Scarlatti	Sinfonia in C Major
9:00	Alessandro Scarlatti	Concerto grosso No.3 in F Major; Sonata (Concerto #9) in A Minor
	J.S. Bach	Contrapunctus 11	Angela Hewitt, piano	J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080	Hyperion

─N.M.

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Tin Ear, by Peter Schmitt

Nicholas Mitchell — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:49:57 +0000

Tin Ear

by Peter Schmitt

We stood at attention as she moved
with a kind of Groucho shuffle
down our line, her trained music
teacher’s ear passing by
our ten- and eleven-year-old mouths
open to some song now forgotten.
And as she held her momentary
pause in front of me, I peered
from the corner of my eye
to hers, and knew the truth
I had suspected.
In the following days,
as certain of our peers
disappeared at appointed hours
for the Chorus, something in me
was already closing shop.
Indeed, to this day
I still clam up
for the national anthem
in crowded stadiums, draw
disapproving alumni stares
as I smile the length of school songs,
and even hum and clap
through “Happy Birthday,” creating
a diversion—all lest I send
the collective pitch
careening headlong into dissonance.
It’s only in the choice acoustics
of shower and sealed car
that I can finally give voice
to that heart deep within me
that is pure, tonally perfect, music.
But when the water stops running
and the radio’s off, I can remember
that day in class,
when I knew for the first time
that mine would be a world of words
without melody, where refrain
means do not join,
where I’m ready to sing
in a key no one has ever heard.

—N.M.

Musica della sera

All the music I found when I couldn’t find what I was looking for

Mozart at Seventeen (Poem)

Mozart at Seventeen

by Claire Keyes

angel trumpets and devil trombones

Musica della sera

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Playlist for August 20, 2015

─N.M.

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a baffling song, no words, only the music

Alia Vox and More

Playlist for August 6, 2015

Musica della sera

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─N.M.

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Nina Totenberg on her Dad and his Strad: Amazing!

A Rarity Reclaimed: Stolen Stradivarius Recovered After 35 Years

by Nina TotenBerg

(Read it and see the wonderful photographs)

A Maddy-Shaped Hole in the Universe

When I Die

What I Know

More from the organ at Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz

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Tin Ear, by Peter Schmitt

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