Tuesday, January 13, 2015

TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015

QUOTE:
“Every kind of music is good,
  except the boring kind.”
AUTHOR: Gioacchino Rossini
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Many people think that music they don’t like is boring but….
 what is boring to one might be interesting to another.”








COMPOSER
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Flight of the Bumble Bee
from Tale of the Tsar Saltan

Bumble Boogie (1948)

Freddy Martin


Flight of the Bumble Bee (1999)
Maestro Minnie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic-hxG5cjPg#t=16
Flight of the Bumble Bee
from Tale of the Tsar Saltan
Jascha Heifetz, Violin
Flight of the Bumble Bee
from Tale of the Tsar Saltan
James Galway, Flute
Flight of the Bumble Bee
from Tale of the Tsar Saltan
Al Hirt, Trumpet
A version of the Flight of the Bumble Bee
was heard in an old TV show called the "Green Hornet"
Flight of the Bumble Bee
from Tale of the Tsar Saltan
Canadian Brass
Flight of the Bumble Bee
from Tale of the Tsar Saltan
David Garrett: Fastest Violin Player
Guinness World Record
Flight of the Bumble Bee
from Tale of the Tsar Saltan
Synthesia
Piano Keyboard Visual
Flight of the Bumble Bee
from Tale of the Tsar Saltan
Accompanied by a Graphical Score

HERE IS A VERSION OF THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE FOR CHILDREN:
http://gentlebirth.org/nutcracker/FlightoftheBumblebee.mp3
THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE FOR GUITAR:
http://gtr1359.blogspot.com/2007/09/flight-of-bumle-bee.html
THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE FOR TROMBONE:
http://www.sheetmusic.ru/_ensembles/ensemble-747.pdf
THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE WORKSHEET:
http://www.classicsforkids.com/activitysheets/April2011.pdf
SEE A REAL BEE
Clever Queen Bumble Bees
"Life in the Undergrowth"
Sir David Attenborough, BBC
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Monday, January 12, 2015

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

QUOTE:
"Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but
  there has been too much dissonance. Bach used
  dissonance as good salt for his music. Others
  applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more
  highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until
  the music was nothing but pepper."
AUTHOR: Sergei Prokofiev
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Dissonance in music (different sounds
 that do not blend pleasantly together)
 should be used like spices are used in
 food; overuse will spoil the product."









COMPOSER
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov by Valentin Serov
The Tsar's Bride Overture
from the opera of the same name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rrt8UppVxc
Tatyana Gorokhovskaya: Ivan the Terrible Choosing His Bride
Lois Rowell Karlsberger
Overture to The Tsar's Bride
by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The overture from Rimsky-Korsakov's 1898
opera, The Tsar's Bride, attests to his orchestral
virtuosity and his affinity for dramatic subjects
rooted in Russian history and folklore. A member
of "The Mighty Five'' of Russian nationalistic
music, he was inspired by Mikhail Glinka's
Mikhail Glinka

opera, A Life 
for the Tsar (1836).
Characteristically, Rimsky
-Korsakov's operas display a wealth of color and
lyricism, an extensive use of folk melodies, and
a mastery of orchestral effects. Many of his
operas move in a fantasy world of romance
and legend. The Tsar's Bride, however, is
a tragedy, set during the reign of
Viktor Vasnetsov: Ivan the Terrible
Grigor loves Martha, fiancée of the
aristocrat Lykov. Grigor asks a magician
for a love potion; but the magician, compelled
by Grigor's former lover Liubacha, substitutes
a slow but effective poison, which Grigor
unwittingly gives Martha. Then, the Tsar
announces that he will take Martha as his
bride. She becomes Tsarina, but dies
mysteriously. When Liubacha confesses,
Grigor kills her, and he is arrested.
http://www.jhu.edu/jhso/about/prgrmnotes/pn_19891029.html
Ilya Yefimovich Repin: Russian Tsar Michael I choosing
his bride from an array of fair maidens in 1626
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