Programming - November 2014

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Monthly Theme

This month, per our yearly tradition on ITYWLTMT, we pause to pay tribute to those we have lost. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War and – especially following the recent tragic events in Ottawa – we have some planned posts around Remembrance.

• November 7 – In Memoriam Carlo Bergonzi, a tribute montage in memory of the great Italian tenor, who left us on July; http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-memoriam-carlo-bergonzi-1924-2014.html
• November 14 – This Day in Music History: 14 November 1940, a complete performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, commissioned for the consecration of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral; http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/11/this-day-in-music-history-14-november.html
• November 21 – In Memoriam, Lorin Maazel, a tribute montage in memory of the great American conductor, who left us in July; http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-memoriam-lorin-maazel-1930-2014.html
• November 28 – In Memoriam, Claudio Abbado, a tribute montage in memory of the great American conductor, who left us in January. http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-memoriam-claudio-abbado-1933-2014.html

Pierre’s Tuesday Blog

• November 4 – Vinyl’s Revenge, the first of a two-part look at a 6-disc vinyl set of quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn, performed by the Aeolian String Quartet. This week, the six quartets of the op. 20; http://www.talkclassical.com/blogs/itywltmt/1736-aeolian-string-quartet-plays.html
• November 11 – Pierre’s Podcast Vault, our Remembrance Day montage from 2011. The montage will be availablke on our Pod-O-Matic Channel until November 30; http://www.talkclassical.com/blogs/itywltmt/1739-lest-we-forget.html
• November 18 – Once Upon the Internet, Russian cellist Dimitry Markevitch in works by Bach and Beethoven downloaded from the old MP3.COM; http://www.talkclassical.com/blogs/itywltmt/1745-dimitry-markevitch-mp3-com.html
• November 25 – La Chronique du Disque, our regular feature with suggestions featuting the music of Haydn, Rostropovich and Richter, and Maximilian Steinberg. http://www.talkclassical.com/blogs/itywltmt/1746-la-chronique-du-disque.html

Once or Twice a Fortnight

Expect a tandem post of the War Requiem podcast and Verdi’s Ernani, featuring the voice of the great Carlo Bergonzi (subject of an earlier tribute this month).

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