Story:After 18 days of fighting, on Christmas day 1941, Governor Sir Mark Young surrendered the territory to the Japanese. The people of Hong Kong lived in misery during the Japanese Occupation which lasted for three years and eight months. In August 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing the Japanese to surrender on 15 August. Rear-Admiral Harcourt re-occupied Hong Kong on 30 August 1945 with his fleet and established a British Military Administration.Music:Elegiac PoemSir Granville Bantock, composerAndrew Fuller, celloMichael Dussek, piano [ More Detail ]
Robert Wetzel on classical guitar performs live in concert two encores with master cellist, Gaiana Mndoian, and John Danke, pianist, on May 19, 2002 in La Mesa, California.At the conclusion of their Sunday afternoon concert, the first encore is performed by Robert Wetzel with John Danke on grand piano. They perform Robert Wetzel's guitar and piano arrangement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Eighteenth Variation on a theme of Paganini". The second encore with Gaiana Mndoian is a cello and guitar arrangement by Robert Wetzel of Jules Massenet's hauntingly mournful "Elegy".Both arrangements (c) 2002 Robert Wetzel ASCAP(c) 2002 Concert Hall PublicationsDownloads of CD recordings by Robert Wetzel may be found at:www.robertwetzel.comwww.concerthallrecords.comwww.apple.com/itunesPhysical CDs by Robert Wetzel may be found at:www.cdbaby.comGuitar constructed for Robert Wetzel in 1999 by Simon Marty of Sydney, Australia.Visit:www.youtube.com/robert wetzel &gaiana mndoianwww.youtube.com/robert wetzel &john dankewww.youtube.com/robert wetzelwww.youtube.com/odeum guitar duowww.robertwetzel.comwww.concerthallrecords.com [ More Detail ]
De Elégie voor cello en orkest van Gabriel Fauré, op. 24, gespeeld door Joris Luijsterburg en het Nijmeegs Studentenorkest Collegium Musicum Carolinum, concert 27 juni 2008. [ More Detail ]
One of the saddest poems I've ever read. And also a good example of elegiac couplet, which is formed by combining an hexameter followed by a pentameter. The hexameter has the following scansion:_ _ / _ _ / _ _ / _ _ / _ uu / _ _ And then a pentameter:_ _ / _ _/ _ // _ uu /_ uu / _(_ = long, u = short, in some cases -look in Wikipedia or wherever- a long can be replaced by two shorts):So basically the poem is hexameter-pentameter-hexameter-pentameter-and-so-on.I learned latin independently, so the pronunciation, the rythm, the entonation and everything basically comes from what I understood studying with books and without receiving any kind of feedback. Therefore, I do not know if I am doing it right and will IMMENSELY appreciate your comments. Thanks!By the way, the drawings are by Gustave Doré and the music is by Edvard Grieg (Sonata for cello and piano in A minor, Op. 36, 2nd movement) [ More Detail ]
"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)"-- Robert Rauschenberg, 1959Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous.Curated by Paul Schimmel, Robert Rauchenberg: Combines was shown in early 2006 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On seeing it there, and upon learning that there were no plans to film it, I asked Bob for permission to do so at the next venue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.This elegy is dedicated to the memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and to the memory of his friendship with my late husband, Earle Brown (1926-2002), whose music has been intertwined and juxtaposed here with images of the glorious Combines.Susan Sollins-BrownExecutive DirectorArt21Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg has been created from footage filmed by Art21 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles during the 2006 exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Among the works seen in whole or in part are Minutiae (1954); Interview (1955); Monogram (1955-59); Canyon (1959); Gift for Apollo (1959); Black Market (1961); Empire II (1961); Pantomime (1961); Ace (1962); and Gold Standard (1964). The video is set to music composed by Earle Brown who, along with Rauschenberg, was a member of a small group of friends in the 1950s that included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, and Christian Wolff, among others. In the spirit of that long-ago friendship, and in the collaborative spirit of that time and group, excerpts from the following works by Brown have been selected and collaged, with permission of The Earle Brown Music Foundation, for this video: Music for Violin, Cello, &Piano (1952); Octet I (1953); Folio and 4 Systems (1954); String Quartet (1965); New Piece (1971); and Special Events (1999).VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Special thanks to Robert Rauschenberg's Studio and David White; Paul Schimmel and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Earle Brown Music Foundation and Thomas Fichter. [ More Detail ]
The Langroise Trio performs my Isle of Bathos 3-10-07.PROGRAM NOTES:This piece had a rather long gestation period. I started it in 2004, and, due to deadlines of other commissions or pursuit of other interests (painting, golfing, fishing, general laying around, work), I finally finished it on December 28, 2006. This followed on the heals of a fairly busy composing year which included, among other projects, the silent film score The Land Beyond the Sunset for the Boise Philharmonic's Musical Movies project, and Elegies for Two Cellos, commissioned by Idaho Dance Theater.When I started composing The Isle of Bathos I noticed that themes were coming in from everywhere, in many different styles, in an almost cartoon-like hodgepodge of juxtaposition. I went with it because it made me laugh, like a Carl Stallings score (the extraordinary composer for the Warner Bros. cartoons). The working titles were El Extrano Espanol, then The Eccentric, and finally the present title. I came across the word bathos by accident. The definition of the word fit so well with the piece that it stuck. The "Isle" part exists because there are sections that could be said to have originated somewhere in the Caribbean. But also, and much more important, the idea of a pseudo-Greek island, where nothing is quite as it seems, is highly appealing to my bizarre sense of humor.Bathos: an abrupt, often ludicrous change from the lofty to the ordinary or trivial in writing or speech; unintentional anticlimax" - Webster's New World DictionaryFor further information visit www.davidalanearnest.com [ More Detail ]
Performance in 2006 by Mountview Academy at Chelsea Theatre, Worlds End, London. Great, moving song at the close of the 1989 musical "Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens" - with me hiding away on the harp! [ More Detail ]
Gabriel Fauré's Elégie - played by the school orchestra Gymnasium Liestal with help of the school orchestra Georg Herwegh-Schule Berlin. Soloist: Eliane Fitzé [ More Detail ]
Elegy for cello and orchestra by Dirk Brosse performed by Julian Lloyd Webber and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dirk Brosse. [ More Detail ]
This is just one track form the critically acclaimed Beulah disc (2PD15) of Eduard van Beinum conducting: Cockaigne Overture Cello Concerto (Anthony Pini - cello) Wand of Youth Suites Order it today at any good record store or buy direct from Beulah at http://www.eavb.co.uk/lp/2pd15.htmlTracks from this disc can be downlaoded at iTunes. Use the link above and select iTunes.Andrew Achenbach writing in The Gramophone Magazine, September 2006: Cockaigne fairly swaggers with exuberance, the LPO responding with tremendous zest and fresh-faced application for its then chief, yet there's tenderness, poetry and humour aplenty when required. even finer are the Wand of Youth Suites. Van Beinum extracts heaps of vigor, innocence, nostalgia and wit from these captivating miniatures, and I'd place his poetic and strongly characterised accounts at the top of the pile... So if you failed to snap up this valuable compilation first time round, you've no excuse now. Beulah compact discs are available in all good record stores, at Amazon, on e-Bay or direct from BEULAH at www.eavb.co.uk [ More Detail ]
Caprice &Elegy by Frederick Delius performed by Julian Lloyd Webber and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner from the CD English Idyll [ More Detail ]
'Senta's Elegy' was played at the 50th birthday of Marc van Delft for the 48th birthday of Ria Alsemgeest by Marc van Delft-piano and Elisabeth Wiklander-cello.This piece was written for Ria, for her birthday, which was celebrated on the same evening as Marc's 50th birthday at 4-4-08 at 'Aardewerk' in The Hague (The Netherlands).Marc has written for Ria's birthday 2 pieces: 'Prelude for Senta' &'Senta's Elegy', because Ria is fond of cello.This piece has a very melancholic character because Ria is fond of the Slavonic melancholy of Pärt and Gorecky.-It is a pity that the beginning of the piece [the entrance for piano] has not been filmed. [ More Detail ]
'Prelude for Senta' was played at the 50th birthday of Marc van Delft for the 48th birthday of Ria Alsemgeest by Marc van Delft-piano and Elisabeth Wiklander-cello.This piece was written for Ria, for her birthday, which was celebrated on the same evening as Marc's 50th birthday at 4-4-08 at 'Aardewerk' in The Hague (The Netherlands).Marc has written for Ria's birthday 2 pieces: 'Prelude for Senta' &'Senta's Elegy', because Ria is fond of cello.The piece is very intimate lyrical music.-It is a pity that the beginning of the piece has not been filmed. [ More Detail ]
Cello passage from the 2nd Symphony 'Celebration' opus 140 (2007) in the version for cello and piano, the passage which was dedicated to Ria AlsemgeestIt was was played at the 50th birthday of Marc van Delft for the 48th birthday of Ria Alsemgeest by Marc van Delft-piano and Elisabeth Wiklander-cello.This passage was rewritten for cello and piano for Ria, for her birthday, which was celebrated on the same evening as Marc's 50th birthday at 4-4-08 at 'Aardewerk' in The Hague (The Netherlands).Marc has written for Ria's birthday 2 pieces: 'Prelude for Senta' &'Senta's Elegy', because Ria is fond of cello.This piece has a very melancholic character because Ria is fond of the Slavonic melancholy of Pärt and Gorecky.-It is a pity that the first note of the piece has not been filmed. [ More Detail ]
Maude Pollard, 2008.I thought we were going to stop half way through, which explains the awkward behavior about half way through.Some questionable camera work by Paul Grobey.Performed by the Batmen:Caitlin Cribbs, viola.Tess Isaac, piano.Jeffrey Harvick, 'cello. [ More Detail ]