Musical Interlude: This past weekend I saw Tall Poppy perform. I'm already familiar with NZ-born fiddler George Jackson, but now he has a new band that totally slaps.
"Fortune," performed by the Tall Poppy String Band.
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Musical Interlude: Another act I saw over the weekend was this fun duo, the Canote Brothers. These identical twins from Seattle are in their 70s and do a LOT of work with kids; they even a special family concert on Saturday morning. They're charming and sweet; their jokes are sometimes corny and obvious, but they tell them so perfectly they're still funny. I took to them immediately.
"I Want to Be a Dog," performed by the Canote Brothers.
Musical Interlude: One of the artists I saw this past weekend at the Old Time Music Festival was Jamie Fox (one x), an Indigenous fiddler from Montana, who taught us all a bit about the Old Time Music tradition in Indigenous communities...I mean, they absorbed a lot from us musically as well. She identifies as Métis, meaning a mixture of European and Indigenous cultures and ancestry, although here in the US she's identified as a certain tribe by the government.
Anyway, here's a nice video where she introduces herself and performs a few pieces. Listen and learn.
"White Buffalo," "Cut Knife Hill," and "Empty Canoe," performed by Jamie Fox.
Musical Interlude: I only discovered this artist a few years after his sad fentanyl-related death in 2020. But his music was pretty good, I thought.
"Pacific Northwestern Blues," performed by Justin Townes Earle.
Musical Interlude: OK, one last evening of Romanticism, I promise. Here's a great violin piece I liked.
"Violin Concerto No. 1," composed by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Ulf Hoelscher on violin.
Musical Interlude: My delving into musical Romanticism continues, with this somewhat lesser-known piece from a familiar name.
"Piano Concerto No. 2," composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra with Bruce Liu on piano.
Musical Interlude: Here's a piece to set aside for a nice morning in May....Maybe I should think of doing a "Morning Music" series. Or not.
"Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex)," composed by Arnold Bax, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Margaret Fingerhut on piano.
Musical Interlude: Friday night and the lights are low....here's a familiar tune given an interesting treatment. A number of musicians have tackled this song with different approaches, and the results are intriguing.
"Dancing Queen" performed by Tom Wardle.
Musical Interlude: OK, time for more Romanticism. I'm digging these works right now, by a Liechtensteinian composer!
"Piano Concerto in A flat," composed by Josef Rheinberger, performed by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, with pianist Michael Ponti.
Musical Interlude: Got some more Romantic music...not hearts-and-flowers romance, but capital-R Romantic. It's a genre of music that gets downplayed today, which is a shame.
"Piano Concerto No. 8," composed by Ferdinand Ries, performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, with Christopher Hinterhuber on piano.
Musical Interlude: Here's a fun little bit of spring joy....this was composed as part of a musical revue, with wry commentary on the garish scenery that the singer was standing in front of!
"Something To Do with Spring," performed by Noel Coward.
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Musical Interlude: My gardening friends are itching to get digging, but we're going to have some sub-freezing temperatures this week...maybe be the weekend. Anyway, here's a song for you.
"Spring Fever," performed by Vilas Craig.
Musical Interlude: I thought about posting "The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round" as a tribute to tomorrow's Roadeo but I couldn't inflict that you. I tried to think of something competition-related and remembered this tune, a musical depiction of a bullfight. Ole!
"Espana Cani," composed by Pascual Marquina Narro, performed by the Cincinnati Pops.
Musical Interlude: More Romanticism? You bet! Here's a composer more people should know.
"Piano Concerto in F Minor," composed by Anton Arensky, performed by the Russian Philharmonic, with Konstantin Scherbakov on piano.
Musical Interlude: Doing more Romanticism today; here's a fun one.
"Double Piano Concerto in A-Flat Major," composed by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, with Love Derwinger & Roland Pöntinen at the pianos.
Musical Interlude: All the news about deportations....and the callous attitude toward the safety of those being deported...brought this song to mind. The lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie, and set to music by Martin Hoffman. It's about a real-life disaster in 1980; look up the Los Gatos crash and you'll read the horrid details.
"Deportee (Plane Crash at Los Gatos)," performed by Arlo Guthrie and Hoyt Axton.
Musical Interlude: How about some piano? Delving some more into Romantic music, I found this lovely piece.
"Piano Concerto in E major," composed by Mortiz Moszkowski, performed by the Polish National Radio Orchestra, with Markus Pawlik on piano.
Musical Interlude: Here's something to ease you into a lovely weekend...no matter what weather you're having...
"Konzertstück for Cello and Orchestra," composed by Ernő Dohnányi, performed by the Budapest Sinfonia (I think).
Musical Interlude: Here's a bit of dark fun. This is a number from the Rogers & Hart musical "A Connecticut Yankee," in which Morgan le Fay sings of how, rather than cheating on her husbands, she just killed them. It wasn't part of the original musical, but was added for a revival where the character was made more a comic anti-heroine.
"To Keep My Love Alive," performed by Ella Fitzgerald.
Musical Interlude; In honor of today's blooming forsythia, here's a springime piece for you, from probably the only composer to really master musical Impressionism.
"Printemps," composed by Claude Debussy, performed by the Orchestre national de France, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine.