WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013

QUOTE:
"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

Stained glass 'Mendelssohn' window in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig
http://www.bbc.co.uk/composers/mendelssohn/pictures/08/

A Midsummer Night's Dream:

Overture Opus 21 

Conductor:  Kurt Masur (1997)

Arthur Rackham: Act III, scene i: Fairies

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

Shakespeare

Wedding March

from the incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Op. 61

It wasn't until Jan. 25, 1858, that the march first appeared in a royal wedding as a recessional (commonly performed as the bridal party files out at the end of the service) used by princess Victoria, The Princess Royal (the oldest child of Queen Victoria) when she married Prince Frederick William of Prussia.  The event was enough to set a standard for ages to come and after this it became popular at weddings. 

 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.

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream_(Mendelssohn)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18822541

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_March_(Mendelssohn)

http://cantorion.org/music/641/A-Midsummer-Night%27s-Dream-Wedding-March

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=19687

http://insanity.blogs.lchwelcome.org/2013/01/08/blame-queen-victoria/

http://kidsmusiccorner.co.uk/composers/classical/mendelssohn/
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

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

BEG. STRINGS

SPRING CONCERT (THURSDAY; MAY 30TH) PREPARATION
01.  REVIEWED DIRECTIONS FOR THURSDAY'S CONCERT and REHEARSAL

02.  TOOK EQUIPMENT TO THE CAFETERIA FOR SET-UP TOMORROW