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March 31, 2014: A440, Op. 2, No. 13 - 'The Request'
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Mon. 3/31/14 8:02pm
12539:
Requests? I request a second hour. | |
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![]() Something special tonight...I WANT YOUR REQUESTS after we get tuned up here. So please, get in touch with compositions that you've been longing to hear. Since 'classical' music is out of the general norm on FMU I anticipate hearing and playing want to hear! |
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![]() I request a third hour. Hi all |
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![]() I request the Muppet Show theme song, which is kind of metaphorically a tuning up piece! |
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![]() I am not smart nuff make request do. |
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![]() so glad this show is on! requests: not necessary because you play great stuff….how about some Italians? Nono? Parmegiani? Berio? |
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Mon. 3/31/14 8:08pm
12539:
I don't want to hear what I already know. That's why I listen to wfmu. | |
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![]() @12539: you said it all |
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![]() Franz von Suppe! A pretty good and not so well known composer. |
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![]() How about John Adams' Light over Water? I've never heard it but a friend told me yesterday that I ought to. |
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![]() I agree with 12539's sentiment. That said, I wouldn't mind if you played the first movement of Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky... |
Mon. 3/31/14 8:11pm
4/4:
Hi -- I've got a memory of listening to Ravel's Bolero, which came on one day while my girlfriend and I were fighting, and was about 20 minutes of peace in that fight -- could you play that? | |
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![]() I like the horns coming out of silence to begin Mahler's Fifth... |
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![]() Bethany, I really love Bach's sonata for violin and harpsichord, BVW 1014. I think it's something that everyone should listen sometime in their lives. |
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![]() Do you have Mendelssohn's "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage"? It's 11 minutes, but has a great timpani break at the end. |
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![]() What about Ravel's Pavane? There's some piano renditions of it which are heartbreakingly beautiful |
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![]() As a kid I was really fond of big ol' popular hits like Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and I bet it'd still bring a smile. |
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![]() Just to end my streak of possible requests, I think that Lost Objects by the Bang on a Can guys are really cool too. |
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![]() Ah, but this is very nice indeed. |
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![]() I lost my sock! |
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![]() I've always liked the prelude to Wagner's _Meistersinger_ - as long as the singing doesn't start, I'm good. |
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![]() 90.1 is back! Woo hoo! |
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![]() Indeed 90.1 fm is BACK! |
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![]() @rangit: that one! I find it cool that they name socks among the relevant things they lost. |
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![]() I'm not really a big fan of that post-minimalism thing (except Dreyblatt), but Lost Objects is really amazing. |
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![]() Interesting note to my playlister community, calls have been coming in with lots of ideas. Not as much resistance there ;) BUT I LOVE YOU ALL. |
Mon. 3/31/14 8:23pm
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Whirlwind by Carlos Salzedo aiways makes me happy. | |
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Mon. 3/31/14 8:24pm
12539:
Sorry to disappoint you, Bethany. | |
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![]() Not disappointed! Your point of view is very flattering...I simply found myself in a playful and interactive mood this evening! |
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![]() Pick a favorite one of the Bach Goldberg Variations. Optionally first pick an artist who plays it "straight". Then... the same piece played by Gould in 1955, then by Gould in 1981. The differences between Gould's interpretations a few decades apart is crazy - that youthful energy as he ripped through them in 1955, then in 1981 he took a magnifying glass to the notes, the spaces between them, their underbellies... |
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![]() I would enjoy an Aaron Copland composition. |
Mon. 3/31/14 8:31pm
Alison Porchnik:
Six Chansons, Hindemith | |
Mon. 3/31/14 8:33pm
will:
I wanna hear what you wanna play, Sincerely, Will J | |
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![]() WHOA!! I suggested that thinking it was a good Classical piece that not many are aware of--glad you selected! Thanks Bethany! :D |
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![]() I got my classical music education from PQP Bach blog |
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![]() Okay, I will take a shot at this: Chopin. Something nice. Can be different. Can’t be common. You choose. |
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![]() Absolutely agree with will. And, I'm glad you wanted to played that! ;) @Bethany: I love what you play for the same reasons--a great, underserved piece that you love in a certain context. We could always use your opinion on that, but good idea to poll other listener's impressions on pieces as well! |
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Mon. 3/31/14 8:37pm
Droll:
I will always remember and love Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed, which we played in HS band, and had a long bass (tuba) solo. |
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![]() I for one would love to know what music you had for the mic break there. Always gets stuck in my head. |
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![]() The shining gem of a bass tubists' career! |
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![]() @Skirkie, I added it in the playlist. An early version of Andrew Bird's tune 'Skin Is, My' from Weather Systems. |
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![]() Tuning in late, but maybe time for a couple of Frank Bridge Miniatures; saw there performed last night... |
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![]() Oh, so it is. How have I missed that? Thank you. |
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![]() Timpanis are starting up their engines! :) |
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![]() *three*, not 'there'. Thanks for the Prokofiev; one of my mom's favorites to play around the house as i was growing up |
Mon. 3/31/14 8:46pm
Matheus:
Any chance we could hear some Liszt? first concert first movement? Cheers from Campinas, Brazil. | |
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![]() Bah BUM bah bum bum BUM bah bum bum..! |
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![]() @12539 at 8:08 - One reason to request things you know would be to turn other listeners on to things you enjoy that they might not know. |
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![]() And see, Bethany, you even reminded me that it's not just a good build up in this piece, but the recurring melody riff is also pretty nice as well! Thanks! |
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![]() Oh Thank you Bethany! Wonderful! |
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![]() @Santos: The Oranges Suite specifically? I'd never heard of that--and now I starred it! |
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![]() mae-strOso! Good moniker for this show! :) |
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![]() I had the pleasure of singing tenor in that piece some years ago... it still gives me chills. |
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Mon. 3/31/14 8:53pm
maltempinulla:
Winds and Brass, and fun! |
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Mon. 3/31/14 8:53pm
maltempinulla:
Request Nono, please? |
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![]() I have noticed Bethany's taste in piano/chamber music, a lot of small ensemble recordings. It certainly broadens my taste--most Classical knowledge passed on tends to be orchestral. @maestroso: Really? WOW! That Stravinsky is really something--and to sing it too! :D |
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![]() Bulgarian choir! That's a great sound--used to great effect on Kate Bush's "Sensual World" album. |
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Mon. 3/31/14 8:56pm
12539:
Thanks Bethany, and contributing listeners! | |
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![]() So many great requests - your experiment worked! |
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![]() @Matt: Oranges indeed. Check out the rest of it when you can, very catchy and fun. And an interesting story to go along with it IIRC |
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![]() Thank you Bethany, such a great show! (I vote for at least two hours.) |
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![]() @Bethany: ranjit's right--let's do this again! Thanks Santos, always looking for great new compositions, no matter how old they might be! |
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![]() Thanks, Bethany! |
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![]() Boom taka taketa boom |
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![]() Matt, I have a similar bias -- particularly for wind quintets. Also, I'm nuts for Poulenc's chamber pieces, especially the series of sonatas for piano and one wind instrument. |
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![]() Thanks Bethany! This was lovely! @PSS: Poulenc--will remember to look into that, thanks! |
Mon. 3/31/14 9:00pm
P-90:
Thanks, DJ Bethany! | |
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