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Friday, October 31, 2014

CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR HALLOWEEN

SCREAM by Edvard Munch (1893)
http://www.artteacherscookbook.com/10-Famous-Paintings-Every-Student-Should-Know.html

Adam: Giselle
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: I. Aria (as heard in The Silence of the Lambs) 
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Op.70 No.19 ghost) 
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Cowell: The Banshee
Crumb: Vox balaena
Debussy: Syrinx
De Falla: Dance of Terror
Gregorian Chant: Offertorium
Herrmann: The Devil and Daniel Webster 
Herrmann: Psycho
Ligeti: Atmospheres
Liszt: Totentanz
MacDowell: A Haunted House 
Paganini/Rachmaninoff: Variations "Dies Irae" (Day of Wrath)
Paganini: Witches Dance
Penderecki: Symphony No. 1
Penderecki: Utrenja Ewangelia
Pettersson: Symphony No. 6
Prokofiev: Etude Op.2 No.1
Saint-Saëns: Dance Macabre
Schoenberg: Erwartung
Schubert: Erlkonig (The Elf King)
Turnage: Three Farewells (All Will Be Well) 
Verdi: Dies Irae
Webern: Funf Satze 4
Webern: Funf Satze 5
Williams: Devil's Dance
Williams: Imperial March
**My favorites for Halloween are in RED

File:Arnold Boecklin - Island of the Dead, Third Version.JPG
Arnold Boecklin - Island of the Dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_the_Dead_(painting)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_the_Dead_(Rachmaninoff)
LINKS
Skeleton Dance
Silly Symphony
1929 Disney Short

Monday, October 13, 2014

Christopher Columbus


 Christopher Columbus
Suite from  the Film Score (1949)


Christopher Columbus
Henry Red Allen, 1959

Bierstadt: The Landing of Columbus, 1893
Christofo Columbo (Thought the World Was Round-O): MP3 file
by Speed Langworthy
Index
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-f4af-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
http://www.8notes.com/scores/3982.asp

Christopher Columbus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJStcD3pmGI

F. R. Harper: Landing of Columbus
Opera: Christopher Columbus
ACT 1: A Square in Cordova in 1492
by Jacques Offenbach

Opera: Christopher Columbus
ACT 2: The Royal Palace
by Jacques Offenbach


Opera: Christopher Columbus
ACT 3: Aboard the Santa Maria
by Jacques Offenbach

Opera: Christopher Columbus
ACT 4: A deep forest, somewhere in downtown Manhattan
by Jacques Offenbach


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo92cK8gNsI&index=1&list=RDYo92cK8gNsI

PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qj6ioTivik&index=2&list=RDYo92cK8gNsI
PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN95SLjPLU8&index=3&list=RDYo92cK8gNsI