"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory"
AUTHOR: Percy Bysshe Shelley
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music resides in your memory long after it is heard."
COMPOSER
MENDELSSOHN
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| Stained glass 'Mendelssohn' window in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig http://www.bbc.co.uk/composers/mendelssohn/pictures/08/ |
Conductor: Kurt Masur (1997)
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| Arthur Rackham: Act III, scene i: Fairies |
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| Arthur Rackham: Titania Queen of the Fairies |
The Overture in E major, Op. 21, was written in 1826 by Mendelssohn at 17 years and 6 months old near the start of his career. It was written as a concert overture and originally not associated with any performance of the play. The Overture was written after Mendelssohn had read a German translation of the Shakespeare
play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1842, only a few years before his death, he received a commission from King Frederick William IV of Prussia to write some music for a Potsdam production of the play of A Midsummer Night's Dream to which he wrote incidental music (Op. 61) into which he incorporated the earlier existing Overture. The incidental music includes the world-famous Wedding March. The German title reads Ein Sommernachtstraum
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| Shakespeare |
Wedding March
from the incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Op. 61
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| Princess Victoria Royal Marriage January 25,1858 |
Queen Victoria and her husband Albert were very fond of Mendelssohn and loved to spend afternoons playing the composer's "Songs Without Words" and singing selections from his oratorios. Mendelssohn often used to play for the royal family while on his visits to Britain.
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| Prince Albert played the organ in the Old Library in Buckingham Palace in the presence of Queen Victoria and Felix Mendelssohn (1842) |
Incidental Music from A Mid Summer
Nights Dream Op. 61 (complete)
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini, 1942
http://kidsmusiccorner.co.uk/composers/classical/mendelssohn/
http://mendelssohnsworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-way-of-listening-to-midsummer.html
GENERAL MUSIC
http://mendelssohnsworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-way-of-listening-to-midsummer.html
GENERAL MUSIC
01. THEORY
.......a. FINISHED THE NEXT NOTE READING TREBLE CLEF PUZZLE
02. VIOLIN
.......a. LEFT PIZZICATO SONG: CRIPPLE CREEK
.............1. LOOKED OVER MUSIC NOTATION OF OPEN STRINGS
..................a. OPEN STRING NOTES COLORIZED TO AID IN LEARNING
..................b. REVIEWED TREBLE CLEF NOTE READING
..................c. MADE CONNECTION BETWEEN NOTES and OPEN STRINGS
..................d. CLASS SANG LETTER NOTE NAMES AS THEY LISTENED TO THE RECORDED ACCOMPANIMENT
..................e. STUDENTS REPEATED THE ABOVE and ALSO USED LEFT HAND PIZZICATO TO PLUCK THE
NOTES THEY WERE SINGING
..................a. OPEN STRING NOTES COLORIZED TO AID IN LEARNING
..................b. REVIEWED TREBLE CLEF NOTE READING
..................c. MADE CONNECTION BETWEEN NOTES and OPEN STRINGS
..................d. CLASS SANG LETTER NOTE NAMES AS THEY LISTENED TO THE RECORDED ACCOMPANIMENT
..................e. STUDENTS REPEATED THE ABOVE and ALSO USED LEFT HAND PIZZICATO TO PLUCK THE
NOTES THEY WERE SINGING
ADV. STRINGS
SPRING CONCERT (THURSDAY; MAY 30TH) PREPARATION
JUNE 5th 5:00 PM (4:30 CALL TIME) DEDICATION FOR PATRICK'S GARDEN
VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION TO PLAY "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN"
01. REVIEWED DIRECTIONS FOR THURSDAY'S CONCERT and REHEARSAL
02. TOOK EQUIPMENT TO THE CAFETERIA FOR SET-UP TOMORROW
JUNE 5th 5:00 PM (4:30 CALL TIME) DEDICATION FOR PATRICK'S GARDEN
VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION TO PLAY "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN"
01. REVIEWED DIRECTIONS FOR THURSDAY'S CONCERT and REHEARSAL
02. TOOK EQUIPMENT TO THE CAFETERIA FOR SET-UP TOMORROW
BEG. STRINGS
SPRING CONCERT (THURSDAY; MAY 30TH) PREPARATION
01. REVIEWED DIRECTIONS FOR THURSDAY'S CONCERT and REHEARSAL
01. REVIEWED DIRECTIONS FOR THURSDAY'S CONCERT and REHEARSAL
02. TOOK EQUIPMENT TO THE CAFETERIA FOR SET-UP TOMORROW
