THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013

QUOTE:
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

AUTHOR: Victor Hugo

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Feelings can be communicated through music in a way that words 

  can never express."

COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY

Francesca da Rimini:

Symphonic Fantasy After Dante, Op. 32

Charles Edward Halle: Paolo and Francesca

Francesca da Rimini:

Symphonic Fantasy After Dante, Op. 32

Vladimir Fedoseyev, Conductor

Moskow Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDhk4orHrSk

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Paolo and Francesca da Rimini

Dante Gabriel Rossetti:  Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, 1862

Francesca da Rimini was an Italian noblewoman. Unhappily

married, she fell in love with her brother-in-law. When her

husband learned of the affair, he murdered his wife and

brother, a tragedy recounted in Dante's Inferno.

Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatestascene
by Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
1.  VIOLIN
a.  PLACING FINGERS DOWN: Do Re Mi/ Mi Re Do (on each string)
1)  Practiced in guitar position with right pizzicato
a)  First played watching the fingers
b)  Second played without watching the fingers
2)  Practiced in regular position with right pizzicato
3)  Practiced with the bow
b.  Preparation for song "MARY"

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

William Dyce:  Francesca da Rimini 

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix:

Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2013

QUOTE:
"You are the music while the music lasts."

AUTHOR: T. S. Eliot

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“While listening to music you can escape the realities of life and create 

  your own universe.”

COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY

http://www.boulderchamberorchestra.org/concerts/201202.html

Serenade for Strings

C Major, Op. 48

Vladimir Fedoseyev, Conductor

Moskow Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNxwVOZwu10

1. Pezzo in forma di sonatina: Andante non troppo — Allegro moderato

2. Valse: Moderato — Tempo di valse

3. Élégie: Larghetto elegiaco

4. Finale (Tema russo): Andante — Allegro con spirito

Serenade for Strings

C Major, Op. 48

Christopher Warren-Green, Conductor

London Chamber Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMfjgyHcIWk

Serenade for Strings

C Major, Op. 48

Conducted by Seiji Ozawa

 Berlin Philharmonic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZgQh96hML0

From the Latin word serenus meaning "serenity, a serenade is a

 musical composition and/or performance in someone's honor,

 originally songs of courtship, but evolving later into sophisticated

 musical works. Serenades of the eighteenth and nineteenth

 centuries were more than likely written in a light mood and usually

 for an evening's entertainment.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Serenade

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
1.  VIOLIN
a.  Played open string songs
1)  Open String Waltz
2)  Blast Off
3)  Open String Lullaby
4)  Little Bitty

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013

QUOTE:
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."

AUTHOR: Henry Van Dyke

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A person does not have to be a professional musician in order to 

  experience the joys of making music.”

COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Oistrakh

David Oistrakh, Violin

Maxim Shostakovich, Conductor

London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dngaQyqxaA0

00:00 Allegro moderato
18:05 Canzonetta. Andante
23:52 Finale. Allegro vivacissimo

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz, Violin

John Barbirolli, Conductor

London Philharmonic, 1937

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fCuMFGVwhc

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Bell

Joshua Bell, Violin

Valery Gergiev, Conductor

National Youth Orchestra of the USA, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKhZP3TdrA8

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Perlman

Violinist Itzhak Perlman

 Talks About the Concerto

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Allegro Moderato Part I

Itzhak Perlman, Violin

Eugene Ormandy, Conductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS5v02kOMoM

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Allegro Moderato Part II

Itzhak Perlman, Violin

Eugene Ormandy, Conductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ustFXdIVUdA

Violin Concerto in  Major, Op. 35

Allegro Moderato Part III

Itzhak Perlman, Violin

Eugene Ormandy, Conductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjBAEfZGF9o

SUBSTITUTE TODAY

ALL STUDENTS WATCHED THE BEGINNING 

OF THE MUSICAL: "THE KING AND I"

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013

QUOTE:
"No artist is pleased...there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."

AUTHOR: Martha Graham

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An artist is never satisfied with his/her art. The pleasure the artists gets is in the act 

  of striving for the perfection that will never be realized.”

COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY

ROMEO and JULIET

Romeo and Juliet Fantasie-Overture

 Painting of "Romeo and Juliet" by Ford Madox Brown

Romeo and Juliet

Fantasie-Overture

Leopold Stokowski, Conductor

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GteUS553vI

Romeo and Juliet (1879) by Hugues Merle

Romeo and Juliet

 Fantasie-Overture

Arturo Toscanini, Conductor

NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gVeRbMQYMs

"The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets
 over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet"
Painting by Frederic Lord Leighton, 1855

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
1.  KEYBOARDS 
(2 hands at the same time by finger numbers)
a.  ODE TO JOY
b.  JINGLE BELLS

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
PREPARATION FOR THE WINTER CONCERT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013

QUOTE:
"The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music."

AUTHOR: Robert Schumann

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“All the arts interweave each other: words can be made into art and 

  music; art can be imitated by music.”

COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY

Piano Concerto #1, Op. 23

Young Woman at the Piano by Renoir

Piano Concerto #1, Op. 23

(Movement 1)

Performed by Van Cliburn in Moscow, 1962

Kiril Kondrashin, Conductor 

Moscow State Philharmonic Academy Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qROema2MDI#t=16

Taken from the YouTube Article:

Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn, Jr., (July 12, 1934-February 27, 2013)

has been called an American hero, hailed as one of the most persuasive

ambassadors of American culture as well as one of the greatest pianists

in the history of music. With his historic 1958 victory in the first

Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow at the height

of the Cold War, Van Cliburn tore down cultural barriers years ahead

of glasnost and perestroika, reaching out across political frontiers with

a universal message all could greet with joy: the message of beautiful

music.

Cliburn was the first musician ever honored with a ticker-tape parade in

New York City, a true hero's welcome and a show of gratitude for an

American victory on the heels of the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik.

Again reaching across cultural borders, Cliburn invited the Russian

conductor Kirill Kondrashin to come to New York and reprise the

performances that had earned the young American the gold medal in

Moscow. Cliburn's recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.

1 with Kondrashin became the first classical album to reach platinum

status and has gone on to sell more than three million copies.

At the Piano by Childe Hassam 

Piano Concerto #1, Op. 23

Complete

Evgenij Kissin, Piano

Seiji Ozawa, Conducter

Boston Symphony, 1995

Marguerite Gachet at the Piano
by Van Gogh

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR WINTER CONCERT

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT

VIOLIN

1.  OPEN STRING BOWING

2.  OPEN STRING BOWING SONGS

a.  PUMPED UP KICKS 
b.  BLAST OFF 
1) tremelo technique
2)  note reading
c.  OPEN STRING WALTZ
1)  note reading

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR WINTER CONCERT

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
PREPARATION FOR WINTER CONCERT

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013

QUOTE:
"Alas, for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It is sad when a person has no musical outlet for their emotions.”

COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY

"Sleeping Beauty"

Sleeping Beauty by John Collier

Valse
(Made famous by Walt Disney)

Another version which shows pictures of Russia 

where Tchaikovsky lived:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sU4mgkGtrs&feature=related

"Sleeping Beauty"

Ballet Op. 66

Sleeping Beauty by Maxfield Parrish

Soundtrack Movie 1959

"Sleeping Beauty"

"Sleeping Beauty"

Kirov Ballet 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-a4HjwuuEs

Sleeping Beauty by Walter Crane

The story (http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Sleeping.html) is the famous fairytale set to music and dance.

The original version of the tale on which the ballet is based was written and published by 
Charles Perrault:

 under the name, "La Belle au bois dormant" (The Sleeping Beauty) in  Paris, 1697.

THE STORY:
http://www.storynory.com/2005/12/16/the-sleeping-beauty/


GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR WINTER CONCERT

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
VIOLIN
1.  OPEN STRING BOWING
2.  OPEN STRING BOWING SONGS

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
PREPARATION FOR WINTER CONCERT

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
PREPARATION FOR WINTER CONCERT

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013

QUOTE:
"Play the music, not the instrument."
AUTHOR: Author Unknown
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An instrument is just the mechanism for the music inside you.”

COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY

Swan Lake

http://cdn-0.irishviews.com/swans.html

Swan Lake

Swan Lake by Carlotta Edwards
http://sharonssunlitmemories.blogspot.com/2012/07/carlotta-edwards.html

SWAN LAKE
Op. 20 Full Suite

Soundtrack to the movie "Black Swan" (2010)

Swan Lake Ballet

Performed by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev (1967)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykS1waEUrBw

Lesson Plan:
http://www.rpo.org/UserFiles/File/PDF/intermediate_02_03/Tchaikovsky_Bio_and_Lesson_Plan.pdf

http://www.thefashionablehousewife.com/03/2010/much-ado-about-a-mute-swan-part-13/

http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=16897##

Swan Lake

Waltz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CShopT9QUzw

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
1.  TUMBALALAIKA
2.  BELIEVE

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT
GRANADA
1.  VIOLIN
a.  Review bow hold
b.  Bowing on shoulder

HILLVIEW
1.  VIOLIN
a.  Bow level silent rocking on instrument
b.  Bowing UH of bow 4x and 8x on each string
c.  Started open string bow song:  Pumped Up Kicks

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  GREENSLEEVES
2.  JINGLE BELLS

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1.  FELIZ NAVIDAD
2.  JINGLE BELL ROCK