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Crowd-surfing a classical concert?! FRIDAY SUGGESTIONS! 6/20
11 years ago
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A little classical humor for your Friday!
A leading scientist was ejected by fellow audience members during a performance of Handel’s Messiah after he took the director’s invitation to “clap and whoop” to the music a step too far by attempting to crowd-surf.
Check out the story HERE!
Well, at least they can't say he wasn't passionate about the music!
For today's music suggestion, I have chosen Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 3 "The Bells of Zlonice", the first movement, in particular, Maestoso - Allegro
Dvořák was a Czech composer who lived from 1841-1904, and incorporated the folk music of Moravia into much of his work. The Bells of Zlonice was composed in 1865, when Dvořák was just 24 years old! Dvořák never got a chance to hear Symphony No. 1 performed, nor did he have a chance to revise it, as it was lost shortly after its composition. It finally resurfaced in 1923, nearly 20 years after his death. From Wikipedia:
"Dvořák submitted the score for a competition in Germany, but never saw it again, and always believed it was destroyed or irretrievably lost. He later included the work in a list of early compositions he claimed to have destroyed. However, in 1882, an unrelated person named Dr. Rudolf Dvořák, a 22-year old Oriental scholar, came across the score in a second-hand bookshop in Leipzig, and bought it. At that time the composer Dvořák was not widely known; although he had written six symphonies, only one of them (No. 6) had been published and only three of them (Nos. 3, 5 and 6) had been performed. Rudolf Dvořák kept the score in his possession, telling nobody about it, not even the composer. He died 38 years later, in 1920, when it passed to his son. The son brought it to the attention of the musical world in 1923. Its authenticity was proven beyond doubt, but it did not receive its first performance until 4 October 1936 in Brno, and even then, in a somewhat edited form. Following the work's premiere, Hans Holländer wrote a review of the work. He noted that although the writing was at times awkward, the orchestration was not. He noted that it seemed to be similar in style to Beethoven and Smetana. It was not published until 1961, and was the last of Dvořák's symphonies to be either performed or published."
I find it interesting that the first symphony ever composed by Dvořák was also the last to be performed. Perhaps the best was saved for last?
Click HERE for Symphony No. 1, The Bells of Zlonice, Movements I-IV
AS ALWAYS - FEEL FREE TO SHARE YOUR FAVORITES BELOW IN THE COMMENTS!
-Svelto
A leading scientist was ejected by fellow audience members during a performance of Handel’s Messiah after he took the director’s invitation to “clap and whoop” to the music a step too far by attempting to crowd-surf.
Check out the story HERE!
Well, at least they can't say he wasn't passionate about the music!
For today's music suggestion, I have chosen Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 3 "The Bells of Zlonice", the first movement, in particular, Maestoso - Allegro
Dvořák was a Czech composer who lived from 1841-1904, and incorporated the folk music of Moravia into much of his work. The Bells of Zlonice was composed in 1865, when Dvořák was just 24 years old! Dvořák never got a chance to hear Symphony No. 1 performed, nor did he have a chance to revise it, as it was lost shortly after its composition. It finally resurfaced in 1923, nearly 20 years after his death. From Wikipedia:
"Dvořák submitted the score for a competition in Germany, but never saw it again, and always believed it was destroyed or irretrievably lost. He later included the work in a list of early compositions he claimed to have destroyed. However, in 1882, an unrelated person named Dr. Rudolf Dvořák, a 22-year old Oriental scholar, came across the score in a second-hand bookshop in Leipzig, and bought it. At that time the composer Dvořák was not widely known; although he had written six symphonies, only one of them (No. 6) had been published and only three of them (Nos. 3, 5 and 6) had been performed. Rudolf Dvořák kept the score in his possession, telling nobody about it, not even the composer. He died 38 years later, in 1920, when it passed to his son. The son brought it to the attention of the musical world in 1923. Its authenticity was proven beyond doubt, but it did not receive its first performance until 4 October 1936 in Brno, and even then, in a somewhat edited form. Following the work's premiere, Hans Holländer wrote a review of the work. He noted that although the writing was at times awkward, the orchestration was not. He noted that it seemed to be similar in style to Beethoven and Smetana. It was not published until 1961, and was the last of Dvořák's symphonies to be either performed or published."
I find it interesting that the first symphony ever composed by Dvořák was also the last to be performed. Perhaps the best was saved for last?
Click HERE for Symphony No. 1, The Bells of Zlonice, Movements I-IV
AS ALWAYS - FEEL FREE TO SHARE YOUR FAVORITES BELOW IN THE COMMENTS!
-Svelto
My favorite of his symphonies are Numbers 7 and 9. Since I cannot believe you do not already know his 9th "From the New World", I share Number 7 instead: http://youtu.be/1wIk4iHLwY0
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