FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015

QUOTE:
"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned
  by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down."
AUTHOR: Hector Berlioz

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Artistic inspiration is fleeting
 (passing quickly) and unexpected."

COMPOSER
IVES

http://elizaveganpage.blogspot.com/2014/09/ersetzen-wirs.html

In Flanders' Fields (1919)

Veronica Lenz-Khun, Soprano

Tan Crone, Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1KJyEGDTJo

http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=music:mss.0014.1
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Written in a rare mood of bitter indignation, anguish,
sorrow, and concern for so much lose of life,
(happening and to come).

http://www.hunting.be/2014/04/de-grote-oorlog/

Poet and doctor, Canadian
John McCrae (1872-1918)

wrote his famous poem while sitting on the step of an

ambulance, after the burial of his friend, Al Helmer,

who was blown to bit's. Then was asked what

he had written and said,

" I don't know..."

In Flanders Fields

John McCrae

Heritage Minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_BjH0p2Y4

http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/linguistics/american/canadian/mccrae.htm

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012

QUOTE:

"A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects 

 that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humor will stimulate a like humor 

 in the listener.”
AUTHOR: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:

“If the composer does not feel the music inside himself first he can 

  not convey those feelings to the audience through his music.”

COMPOSER

COPLAND

The Boatmen's Dance

sung by Thomas Hampton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1rLsgy02cI&feature=related

NO SCHOOL DUE TO VETERAN'S DAY

HERE IS A LINK ABOUT A LOCAL AREA VETERAN (AND GIFTED OLYMPIC ATHLETE), LOUIS ZAMERINI ( A.K.A. "The Torrance Tornado"), WHO SURVIVED AS A PRISONER OF WAR IN JAPAN WHILE SERVING IN WORLD WAR II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dd26ccWBLM