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Friday, May 31, 2013

GUSTAV HOLST PICTURES



"Do something you have never done before."
~Gustav Holst~

"If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly." 
(on amateur music-making)
~Gustav Holst~


"The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, 
but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension 
of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails."
~Gustav Holst~


"Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. 
It's a condition of eternity."
~Gustav Holst~


"One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference 
between knowing and realizing."
~Gustav Holst~


"If nobody likes your work, you have to go on just for the sake of the work. 
And you're in no danger of letting the public make you repeat yourself. 
Every artist ought to pray that he may not be 'a success.'
If he's a failure he stands a good chance of concentrating 
upon the best work of which he's capable."
~Gustav Holst~

http://www.classicsonline.com/

"Always ask for advice but never take it."
~Gustav Holst~
http://delph-ambi.deviantart.com/art/Gustav-Holst-352905896

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/7366369516/


"Never compose anything unless the not composing of it 
becomes a positive nuisance to you."
~Gustav Holst~

Holst and students
Holst and Vaughan-Williams
Holst, Vaughan-Williams, and others 
Holst and Elgar


LINKS
http://jessicamusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/holst-directors-cut.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gustav-holst-mn0000099034
http://www.52composers.com/holst.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/105160177/gustav-holsts-peerless-planets
http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Gustav_Holst
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst
http://www.classiccat.net/holst_g_von/biography.php
http://www.eroica.com/phoenix/jdt145-gh.html
http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/bio.asp?id=28
http://musiced.about.com/od/20thcentury/p/gustavholst.htm
http://www.sfcv.org/learn/composer-gallery/holst-gustav
http://www.cheltenhamcivicsociety.org.uk/Gustav%20Holst.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/gustav-holst--brought-down-to-earth-2267832.html
http://www.screened.com/profile/zombiepie/proof-that-everyone-uses-gustav-holsts-mars-the-bringer-of-war/233-2485/
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FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2013

QUOTE:
"Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by 
  refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker."
AUTHOR: William Green
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The rhythmic beats of music not only help people pace
  their daily work activities but also make the work more 
  enjoyable." 













COMPOSER
MENDELSSOHN


Elijah
Cranach: Elijah and the Priests of Baal 1545
Elijah or Elias was a famous prophet and a wonder-worker in the northern kingdom of Israel 
during the reign of Ahab, according to the Biblical Books of Kings.


ARTICLE FROM:
Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

Mendelssohn’s first oratorio, St. Paul (1836), achieved such an extraordinary success that it was a difficult act to follow. Mendelssohn immediately began contemplating the possibility of a second oratorio, and he even considered setting the story of Elijah. But for nearly a decade, these plans remained unfulfilled. He was apparently thinking about Elijah again in 1845, and when the Birmingham Music Festival commissioned him to compose an oratorio, he was ready to get to work. 

As he had with St. Paul, Mendelssohn asked Julius Schubring, a friend and Lutheran pastor, to assemble a libretto from the German Bible. Because the audience in Birmingham expected an English-language oratorio, Schubring’s text had to be translated. Although Mendelssohn spoke English himself, he entrusted this assignment to his friend William Bartholomew. It was sometimes a delicate task, because many of the Biblical passages were famous ones, so English listeners would have been dismayed if they had heard literal translations of Luther’s German Bible rather than the King James version that was so familiar in England.

The premiere took place in Birmingham on August 26, 1846, under Mendelssohn’s direction. It was a tremendous success, and ever since Elijah has been widely regarded as the pre-eminent oratorio of the 19th century. 

Today we usually think of Mendelssohn as the composer of two oratorios, but he was already at work on a third, Christus, when he died in 1847 at the age of only 38.
GENERAL MUSIC
01. VIOLIN INSTRUCTIONAL DOCUMENTARY "SMALL WONDERS" CONTINUED
http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2009/12/small-wonders-concert.html
.......a.  TECHNIQUES OF PLAYING VIOLIN EXPLAINED
.......b.  METHODS OF TEACHING VIOLIN DEMONSTRATED

ADV. STRINGS
SPRING CONCERT FOR SCHOOL DURING LUNCH
JUNE 5th 5:00 PM (4:30 CALL TIME) DEDICATION FOR PATRICK'S GARDEN 
VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION TO PLAY "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN"

BEG. STRINGS
SPRING CONCERT FOR SCHOOL DURING LUNCH

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013

QUOTE:
"Music can noble hints impart,
  Engender fury, kindle love,
  With unsuspected eloquence can move,
  And manage all the man with secret art."
AUTHOR: Joseph Addison
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music specializes in communicating the deepest feelings of mankind."













COMPOSER
MENDELSSOHN

Symphony No. 4 in A Major "Italian"
Conductor: Otto Klemperer

The city of Florence, Italy painted by Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 in A Major "Italian"
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel

GENERAL MUSIC
01. VIOLIN INSTRUCTIONAL DOCUMENTARY "SMALL WONDERS"
http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2009/12/small-wonders-concert.html
.......a.  TECHNIQUES OF PLAYING VIOLIN EXPLAINED
.......b.  METHODS OF TEACHING VIOLIN DEMONSTRATED

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.  SET UP FOR SPRING CONCERT PERIOD 4
02.  DRESS REHEARSAL PERIOD 6

BEG. STRINGS
SPRING CONCERT (THURSDAY; MAY 30TH) PREPARATION
01.  SET UP FOR SPRING CONCERT PERIOD 4
02.  DRESS REHEARSAL PERIOD 6
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