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Igor Stravinsky was born on June 17, 1882.
Corpus Christi is celebrated on June 19.
Summer begins on June 21.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is considered one of the three giants of musical composition, along with Bach and Beethoven . A child prodigy born in Salzburg , Austria, he mastered the keyboard and violin at the age of six and began composing. His father, Leopold , exhibited him on exhausting tours of various European courts. A prolific composer (more than 600 works written from the age of five until his death), he cultivated all kinds of musical genres: piano works, chamber music, symphonies, concertante works, choral works, operas... each and every one of them a masterpiece of their kind. His operas The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro are among the 10 most performed operas in the world. He died in Vienna at the age of 35.
The catalogue of Mozart's works or Köchel Catalogue ( Köchel Verzeichnis, in German) was created by Ludwig von Köchel in 1862 and lists the musical works composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Each of Mozart 's works is designated by a number preceded by the abbreviation K. or KV ; this number designates the chronological order of its creation and which is actually valid for most of the works; however, in its first edition, works by other authors appear erroneously attributed to Mozart , and other authentic works that had not yet been discovered are omitted.
Ave verum corpus is a short musical motet composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based on the short Eucharistic hymn of the same name, dating from the 14th century and attributed to Pope Innocent VI . It is numbered KV618 according to the Köchel Catalogue of Mozart 's works. The motet was composed for the feast of Corpus Christi and was completed in Salzburg on 18 June 1791 (the year of his death).
Today it is offered to us by the Bavarian Radio Choir and Orchestra, conducted by the American maestro of maestros Leonard Bernstein .
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer who graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and wrote works in various genres, although his greatest success was with his ballets. In 1859, he obtained a position as a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice , which he abandoned after three years to devote himself solely to music. His personal life was plagued by continuous crises following the death of his mother and his repressed homosexuality, which forced him into a marriage that only lasted a few months. He wrote more than 150 compositions, including piano works, quartets, suites, symphonies, concertos, chorales, cantatas, operas, and ballets. He died at the age of 53 and is considered one of the greatest composers in history.
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11 was the first of three complete string quartets published during Tchaikovsky 's lifetime. Composed in February 1871, it was premiered in Moscow from March 16 to 28, 1871, by four members of the Russian Musical Society . The quartet has four movements, of which we offer today the second movement - ANDANTE CANTABILE, based on a folk song the composer heard at his sister Kamenka 's house. When the quartet was performed at a tribute concert for Leo Tolstoy , the composer is said to have been moved to tears by this movement.
Today, however, we offer this second movement in a version for cello and orchestra featuring cellist Corinne Morris accompanied by the Macedonian Radio Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Maestro Philip Hesketh .
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was a German pianist, conductor, and composer of outstanding technical and formal perfection. A child prodigy who demonstrated his extraordinary abilities at a very early age, he was the brother of the pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn , also a child prodigy. He began taking piano lessons from his mother; at the age of eighteen, he began composition classes based on Bach 's The Well-Tempered Clavier . Thus, Mendelssohn 's works display a well-established tonal clarity and a profound mastery of counterpoint. His legacy includes piano music, organ music, chamber music, overtures, symphonies, concertos, oratorios, and incidental music.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a musical work by Mendelssohn written in 1842 and based on the play of the same name by Shakespeare (1564-1616). It is an incidental music, which includes the famous Wedding March , for a production of the play to which he incorporated the Concert Overture (op. 21) that he had written in 1821. The work was commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia and is structured in 12 movements plus an opening and a final coda.
Today we offer number 1, “ Scherzo ” in a version by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by the eminent Russian maestro Valery Gergiev .
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer; considered by many critics to be the most important of the 20th century . During his long life, he composed a large number of works in various styles such as primitivism , neoclassicism and serialism . Eventually, Stravinsky 's musical future was paved the way for Sergei Diaghilev , director of the Ballets Russes in Paris , who commissioned Stravinsky to write a ballet for his company, which would become The Firebird ; Stravinsky left Russia for the first time in 1910, to attend the Paris premiere of the ballet by the Ballets Russes . During his stay in Paris, he composed two more works for the Ballets Russes : Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913).
These ballets reveal the composer's stylistic development: from The Firebird , whose style shows the powerful influence of Rimsky-Korsakov , whose pupil he was, to Petrushka with its strong bitonal emphasis, to the wild polyphonic dissonance of The Rite of Spring . As Stravinsky mentioned about his premieres, his intention was to "send everything to hell" (and he succeeded: the premiere of The Rite of Spring in 1913 was probably the most famous scandal in the history of music, with fistfights between audience members and the need for police supervision during the second act). For many, these daring and innovative ballets practically reinvented the genre. He subsequently traveled to the USA in 1939, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1945 and where he continued to live until his death in 1971.
In addition to the above, Stravinsky also wrote for various types of ensembles in a wide range of classical forms, from operas and symphonies to short piano pieces and works for jazz groups; but he achieved fame not only as a composer, but also as a pianist and conductor of his own compositions. He was essentially a cosmopolitan Russian, one of the most influential composers and artists of 20th-century music, both in the West and in his homeland; he was also considered by Time magazine as one of the most influential personalities of the 20th century .
Tango is a musical genre and a dance, characteristic of the Río de la Plata region and its area of influence, but mainly of the cities of Buenos Aires (in Argentina) and Montevideo (in Uruguay). Six main musical styles left their mark on tango: Andalusian tango, Cuban habanera, candombe, milonga, mazurka and European polka . Tango revolutionized popular dance by introducing a sensual dance with an embraced partner that proposes a deep emotional relationship between each person and their own body and between the bodies of the dancers with each other. Musically, it usually has a binary form (theme and chorus) or ternary (two parts to which a trio is added). On September 30, 2009, UNESCO declared it an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Today Su Jung Choi and Aeji Yoon offer us Tango for Two Pianos by Igor Stravinsky.
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Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an Italian priest, violinist, and composer known as the Red Priest ("il prete rosso"). He was born in Venice and learned to play the violin with his father as a child. At the age of 15, he entered the Seminary and, once ordained a priest, was barely able to attend to his religious obligations due to his health problems. He was appointed violin teacher at an orphanage where he taught theory and instrument lessons. At the age of 40, he was appointed Chapel Master in Mantua , where he wrote his famous Four Seasons . From there he moved to Milan , then to Rome ; later, back to Venice , and finally to Vienna , where he died. Throughout his life, he composed almost 800 works, half of which were concertos, 40 operas, 60 religious works, and numerous sonatas.
The Four Seasons are a set of four concerts, which at their premiere included an explanatory booklet similar to what we understand as Program Music .
Concerto No. 2, Summer is structured in three movements: I (0´10´´) ALLEGRO NON MOLTO “Under the harsh season, lit by the sun, man and flock languish, and the pine burns. The cuckoo lets go of its voice, and when the wood pigeon and the goldfinch understand it, they sing...“ .-. II (6´05´´) ADAGIO E PIANO-PRESTO E FORTE “Repose is stolen from their lax limbs, by the fear of the lightning, and the fierce thunderclaps, and by the furious swarm of flies and midges!” .-. III (8´10´´) PRESTO “Ah, these are their true fears! The sky thunders and strikes down, and with hail, it cuts off the heads of the ears of grain and upsets the grain.”
Today it is offered to us by Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen accompanied by the Trondheim Soloists , a chamber music ensemble of string musicians based in Trondheim, Norway .
The txistu is a musical instrument that belongs to the European family commonly known as the "three-hole flute". It is played with one hand (usually the left), leaving the other hand free to play the small drum that hangs from the arm used to play the txistu. Currently tuned in F, it is frequently accompanied by the whistle or txistu haundi , a lower-pitched instrument, tuned in B flat . The txirula , a higher-pitched instrument, belongs to the same family and is usually accompanied by the ttun ttun (string drum). The txistu is used in pilgrimages, parades, tributes, institutional events and in different types of concerts, both as a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra, or as part of a small txistu band (Txistu 1st, Txistu 2nd, Silbote and Caja Clara).
Garikoitz Mendizabal (1973), born in Zestoa , Gipuzkoa, studied at the San Sebastián Conservatory of Music with José Ignacio Ansorena , achieving excellent grades. He has performed as a soloist with various groups in Spain and South Korea ; he currently directs the Bilbao Municipal Txistularis Band .
Today, accompanied by the Korean Chun Cheon Philharmonic Orchestra, he offers us this rhapsody of Basque themes under the baton of maestro Unai Urretxo .
Symphony. The word symphony is derived from the Latin symphonĭa, which in turn is derived from the Greek συμφωνία (symphōnía), meaning "consonance" as opposed to διαφωνία (diaphōnia), meaning "dissonance". In the Middle Ages and later, the word symphony was used to describe several instruments, especially those capable of producing more than one sound simultaneously; in the sense of "sounding together", the word begins to appear in the titles of some works by 16th and 17th century composers, and by the end of the 18th century the word had acquired the common meaning it receives today: a work generally consisting of four distinct sections or movements and most often composed for orchestra. The symphony reached its maturity with Beethoven ; His symphonies usually had a first movement "Allegro" in sonata form ( after the possible introduction , exposition-development-re-exposition) , a second slow movement (sometimes in the form of a theme and variations ), a third movement with a triple rhythm (usually a scherzo , before Beethoven the common thing was a minuet and trio ), to end with the fourth fast movement ( rondo ); although there are symphonies with a last movement also written in sonata form .
The Symphony in Three Movements is a work by Igor Stravinsky , who wrote it from 1942 to 1945 commissioned by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society ; it was premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Stravinsky himself on 24 January 1946. The Symphony in Three Movements is considered Stravinsky 's first major composition after emigrating to the United States ; in it he uses material previously written for aborted film projects.
Structure. The Symphony is divided into three movements: The FIRST MOVEMENT (0'23'') Overture: Allegro was inspired by a documentary about Japanese scorched earth tactics in China . The piano comes from an unfinished piano concerto. In the SECOND MOVEMENT (10'27'') Andante; Interlude: L'istesso tempo the harp music is prominent with the use of themes he had written for the film adaptation The Song of Bernadette . The THIRD MOVEMENT (16'24'') Con moto deals with images of German soldiers retreating in the face of the growing success of the Allied forces; for this purpose it uses reorganized material from previous abandoned projects, while uniting the first two movements giving equal emphasis to the piano and the harp.
Today it is offered to us by the Victoria Symphony conducted by Canadian maestro Tania Miller
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931) is a Russian composer born in Tatarstan . She studied piano and composition at the Kazan Conservatory ; in 1954 she moved to Moscow where she continued her studies until graduating in 1963. Her music was criticized for its exploration of alternative tunings, although Shostakovich encouraged her to continue searching for her own path. Her violin concerto, Ofertorium, performed by Gidon Kremer , opened the doors to critical acclaim. In 2002 she received the Polar Music Prize , awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music .
The composition we propose today, De Profundis , is a demonstration of all the remarkable things the accordion can do in the hands of a virtuoso. Sofia Gubaidulina took great pains to study the accordion with the Russian performer Friedrich Lips and exploits its resources to the fullest. De Profundis is a work of complex polyphony, dense clusters of notes, glissandi, quasi-percussive effects, sepulchral breath sounds (the instrument has what is called an 'air button'); all within a very wide dynamic scale and contrasting velocities.
Hanzhi Wang is the first accordionist to earn a spot on the Young Concert Artists roster in its 58-year history and the first time a solo accordionist has appeared on WQXR's Young Artists Showcase in New York City . Additionally, Wang won First Prize at the 40th Castelfidardo International Accordion Competition in Italy. She is also active with recitals, lectures, performances and master classes at the Manhattan School of Music, the Royal Danish Academy of Music, the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, the Ghent Conservatory of Music, and in Norway and Portugal . Composers Martin Lohse, James Black , and Sophia Gubaidulina have all written and dedicated works to her. Wang earned her bachelor's degree from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing , China , and completed her master's degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen .
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Finneas (born 1997) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has released several singles and written songs for other artists, including his sister, singer Billie Eilish . In 2019, he released his debut EP Blood Harmony . As an actor, he starred in the 2013 independent film Life Inside Out . He is also known for playing the role of Alistair on the FOX series Glee . In 2011, he portrayed Spencer in the film Bad Teacher . He also appeared in two episodes of the ABC series Modern Family and two episodes of Aquarius . In early 2019, Finneas went on his first sold-out tours in New York City and Los Angeles .
Avril Lavigne (born in Belleville, Ontario, 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Critics from magazines such as Billboard have called her "the Princess of Pop Punk" . She began her musical career in December 2000, when after a presentation in a bookstore, she aroused the interest of producer L.A. Reid and signed to Arista Records . She has released seven studio albums and has sold sixty-two million albums and eighty-four million singles worldwide, having six number-one singles worldwide . Her influences run along the paths of power pop and punk rock . Avril is also, according to Forbes , one of the richest young celebrities in the world, with an estimated fortune of over $100 million reported in 2010 and she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022. In a poll by Rolling Stone magazine to choose the top 100 songs and albums between 2000 and 2009, the song " Complicated " and the album "Let Go" were ranked eighth and fourth respectively.
The singer also holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest female artist to have a debut album chart in the UK, aged 18, on 11 January 2003, spending 18 weeks at number one on the charts with her album Let Go . This album was also inducted at number 162 on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Top Albums list. According to Billboard magazine, Lavigne is listed as one of the top 100 artists of the 2000s in the United States , peaking at number 27. Alongside her music, Lavigne voiced an animated character in the 2006 film Over the Hedge (Over the Hedge) and made her on-screen acting debut in the 2006 film Fast Food Nation .
Martinho da Vila (Martinho José Ferreira: Duas Barras, Rio de Janeiro, February 12, 1938) is a Brazilian singer and composer. A samba player from the Vila Isabel School in Rio de Janeiro (despite having been born in the interior of the state of Rio), he began his career at the III Music Festival of the Record television network, in 1967, where he competed with the song " Menina moça ". He would repeat the experience in 1968 and 1969. In the latter year his first full-length album was released: Martinho da Vila , which included the explosive high-songs " Casa de bamba" and "O pequeno burguês " and the compacted samba-entanglements "Iaiá do cais dourado" and "Carnaval de ilusões ", which altered the traditional format and thus his continued successes continued until, with his huge sales, Martinho broke the taboo in the Brazilian music scene that sambistas needed intermediary voices to reach the masses.
Zephanie Dimaranan (born February 14, 2003), also known as Zephanie , is a Filipino singer, actress, and host. She rose to popularity as the winner of the first season of Idol Philippines . She was hailed as the " New Female Recording Artist of the Year " at the 12th PMPC Star Music Awards and Singer of the Year at the 1st KUMU Livestreaming Awards . She joined the 11th Himig as a performer of " Tinadhana Sa'Yo " which won both the MOR's Choice and TFC's Global Choice Awards . As of January 2022, she has surpassed 10 million all-time streams on Spotify . Her self-titled debut album " Zephanie " immediately reached number one on iTunes Philippines upon release while all tracks charted in the Top 100 . Her song " Sabihin Mo Na Lang Kasi " was listed as one of the most successful songs released in 2020 by Star Music with a total of over one million streams. Notably, she was one of the 12 winners chosen to join Now United 's bootcamp in Abu Dhabi in September 2021. She also performed a duet with Brian McFadden , member of the Irish boy band Westlife during their concert in the Philippines . She is currently a GMA Network artist, as a mainstay on the variety show, All-Out Sundays .
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was a German pianist, conductor, and composer of outstanding technical and formal perfection. A child prodigy who demonstrated his extraordinary abilities at a very early age, he was the brother of the pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn , also a child prodigy. He began taking piano lessons from his mother; at the age of eighteen, he began composition classes based on Bach 's The Well-Tempered Clavier . Thus, Mendelssohn 's works display a well-established tonal clarity and a profound mastery of counterpoint. His legacy includes piano music, organ music, chamber music, overtures, symphonies, concertos, oratorios, and incidental music.
A Midsummer Night's Dream , which we present today, is a musical work by Mendelssohn based on the play of the same name by Shakespeare (1564-1616). He wrote it at the age of 17 for a theatrical performance, although in the present version it is a ballet work in two acts choreographed by George Balanchine (1940-1983), a Russian ballet master who bridges the gap between classical and modern ballet; one of the foremost masters of the 20th century .
Today's performance is by Alessandra Ferri , Roberto Bolle and the Ballet and Symphony Orchestra of La Scala in Milan.
Basque dances , or Euskal Dantzak in Basque, are a very important part of Basque culture and a fundamental part of its folklore. Each historical territory, or province, has its own dances, and each town also has its own dance that is customarily performed at its major festivals. Some of them are very old, their origins long lost in time; others are more or less modern recreations of old dances, and some are new choreographies based on folklore.
Oñati Arch Dance. The most important festival in Oñati , Gipuzkoa , is Corpus Christi . In the morning, after High Mass , a procession takes place with the sacred figures and dancers, who return to dance again in the afternoon. One of the dances is the Arku Dantza (Bow Dance), which is very impressive for its rhythm and changes. ( Excerpt from the footer of this video )
Today we offer it through the Itxas Alde Dantza Taldea group.
Summer . The performance of traditional Russian folk dances, in numerous forms, reflects various aspects of Russia's national character, as can be seen in today's dance, Summer , which is part of the Four Seasons suite set to music by S. Galperin and V. Zhmykhov and choreographed by I. Moiseev . Our dance today embodies the humor, mischief, romance, and lyricism often attributed to rural people. The action takes place during the Harvest Festival , and residents of all ages have gathered to congratulate the young couple. (Excerpt from the video's footnote)
Today's version is offered by the Igor Moiseyev Ballet , a company born from the heart of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre and currently one of the world's great ballet companies; a company that successfully combines the spontaneity of folk dance with the academic spirit of classical ballet.
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is a ballet by Stravinsky written for the 1913 Paris season of the Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky , with sets and costumes by Nicholas Roerich . Its premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées caused a sensation and riots with the audience due to the avant-garde character of the music and choreography. Roerich 's development of Stravinsky 's concept is suggested by its subtitle, " Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts ". The work describes the story, set in ancient Russia , of the abduction and pagan sacrifice of a maiden at the beginning of spring, who was to dance to her death.
Structure . The composition is structured in two parts as follows : First part, Adoration of the earth : I (4´37´´) INTRODUCTION (Lento. Più Mosso. Tempo I) .-. II (7´41´´) SPRING AUGURIES. DANCE OF THE TEENAGERS (Tempo giusto) .-. III (11´00 ´) KIDNING GAME (Presto) .-. IV (12´12´´) SPRING ROUNDS (Tranquillo. Sostenuto e pesante. Vivo. Tranquillo) .-. V (16´06´´) GAME OF THE RIVAL TRIBES (Molto allegro) .-. VI (17´46´´) COURTSHIP OF THE WISE MAN .-. VII (18´33´´) ADORATION OF THE EARTH (The Wise) (Slow).-. VIII (18´56´´) DANCE OF THE EARTH (Prestissimo).
Second part, The sacrifice: I (20´03´´) INTRODUCTION (Lento) .-. II (23´49´´) MYSTERIOUS CIRCLES OF THE TEENAGERS (Andante con moto - Più Mosso - Tempo I) .-. III (27´34´´) GLORIFICATION OF THE CHOSEN ONE (Vivo) .-. IV (29´06´´) EVOCATION OF THE ANCESTORS .-. V (29´57´´) RITUAL ACTION OF THE ANCESTORS (Lento); VI (33´31´´) SACRED DANCE (The Chosen One) (Allegro).
Today it is offered to us by the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet and Orchestra under the baton of the eminent maestro Valery Gergiev .
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The texts of Videomusicalis are written in Basque, Spanish and English.
