St. Matthew Passion, Final Chorus, by J. S. Bach, performed by Malmö Chamber Choir
Final Chorus of St Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach. Performed by Malmö Chamber Choir and orchestra on April 8, 2009, in Lund Cathedral, Sweden. Conducted by prof. Dan-Olof Stenlund.
Dr. Fuddle's Musical IQ Test 31
Answers to Musical IQ Test 30 - All About Bach!
1. a. 1685
2. b. symphony
3. c. 6
4. c. Counterpoint
5. d. All of the above
J.S.Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.5 - Croatian Baroque Ensemble
00:05 1st movement Allegro
10:14 2nd movement - Affettuoso
16:10 3rd movement - Allegro
Croatian Baroque Ensemble http://www.hrba.hr/en/
Laura Vadjon - Violine and Artistic leadership
Ana Benic - baroque flute
Pavao Masic - harpsichord
Vlatka Peljhan - viola
Nika Zlataric - cello
Helena Babic - double bass
Dr. Fuddle's All Bach Musical IQ Test
Answers To Musical IQ Test 291. c. Claude Debussy
2. a. Frederick Chopin
3. c. the study of musical composition and history
4. d. all of the above
5. d. Franz Joseph Haydn
Classical music isn't dead yet
by Caroline Marris
Pretty much anywhere you look — in any major paper in any major city — somebody is moaning about the death of classical music. "Nobody under the age of fifty goes to the Philharmonic anymore," one will gripe. "Only young people of Asian descent care anymore," another grumbles controversially. Too fusty, too old, too complex for mortals to understand — Beethoven needn't bother to roll in his grave, it seems, because no one under the age of 30 will remember who he is.
The problem with this argument is it doesn't actually seem to be a problem.
In recent weeks and months I've seen Jean-Yves Thibaudet — of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement" soundtrack fame — play Shostakovitch. I've seen Lang Lang play Bartok. I've seen Mozart's Requiem twice — a rare Missa Brevis by Kodály, Ian Bostridge singing Schubert and Orpheus playing Tchaikovsky's "Serenade for Strings." I just missed out on the New York Choral Society singing Wagner's early epic opera "Rienzi." In each and every case I've seen children with their parents, high school students with lapfuls of composition paper taking down notes in real time and dozens, if not hundreds, of 20-somethings in the audiences. I'm due to see the Kronos Quartet very soon, which I expect will also be packed with a younger set — in light of their contemporary and up-and-coming tastes. Just last week, an enormous production of Orff's "Carmina Burana" was sung at Carnegie Hall by hundreds of high school students, along with three new Orff-inspired compositions by teenagers.
So why on earth do people assume classical isn't for the young anymore?Read More
Caroline Marris is a contributing columnist. Email her at opinion@nyunews.com.
Dr. Fuddle's Musical IQ Test 29
Answers to Musical IQ Test 281. b. Béla Bartók
2. c. Robert Schumann
3. a. halfway between staccato and legato
4. d. Ernesto Lecuona
5. c. Einstein on the Beach
Prima Ballerina Maniya Baredo performing as Juliet in Ballet Philippines' Romeo and Juliet
Maniya Barredo as Juliet and Nonoy Froilan as Romeo. Balcony scene from the ballet Romeo & Juliet. Choreography by Tom Pazik. Performed at the Cultural Center of the Philippines
Classical Music and Medicine
Dr Claudius Conrad grew up studying music; he became quite an accomplished pianist before he turned to medicine. Now that he's a surgeon, he sometimes listens to recordings of himself playing Mozart during operations. Conrad says there's a clear connection: “In surgery, you do something that is comparable to a concert," he says,” and like a concert situation, in surgery you want to do the most beautiful work you can under the most stress."
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