Project 366 - Dates on the Musical Calendar for September 2019

Project 366 continues in 2019 with "Dates on the Musical Calendar". Read more here.

Highlights

• 11 Sept – Terror attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon (OTD 2001) – Guide #303
• 12 Sept – FP of Mahler's  « Symphony of A Thousand » (OTD 1910) – Guide #268
• 14 Sept – « Last Night of the Proms » – Guide #70 & 71
• 22 Sept – Fall Equinox (Northern Hemisphere) - Guide #217
• 29 Sept. – Start of Rosh Hashana, Jewish New Year – Guide #230
• 30 septembre – FP of Gershwin's « Porgy and Bess » (OTD 1935) – Guide #305

To fill out September, we offer some listener guides from Part 1 of the Project. Additional new listener guides include solo piano music by Debussy (Guide #301), Organ music by Messiaen (Guide #302) and two incarnations of the Oscar Peterson Trio  (Guide #304).

Your Listener Guides

Listener Guide #301 – Francine Kay plays Debussy

The works in Debussy's second book of préludes are similar in intent to those of Book I (1907 - 1910). Several of them look ahead to Debussy's later style, in which the composer's earlier impressionistic, almost Romantic poetry was supplanted by a greater concentration upon technique and neoclassical objectivity. In addition, perhaps because Debussy's style is so prone to mannerism, several of the préludes in Book II bear strong similarities to those from the earlier set. (Once Upon the Internet # 6 - 23 Oct 2012)

Listener Guide #302 – Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité

The title of Olivier Messiaen’s Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité is loaded with elements quite relevant to the composer: his spiritual nature, the church and organ that he was associate with for 60 years, and the number 3... (ITYWLTMT Montage #152 - 18 Apr 2014)

Listener Guide #303 – Mozart : Requiem in d-Moll

Composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death on December 5, the Requiem was finished not by Salieri as Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus suggests, but rather by Franz Xaver Süssmayr who was Mozart’s copyist. The work had been “anonymously” commissioned by Count Franz von Walsegg asa requiem mass to commemorate the February 14 anniversary of his wife's death. (ITYWLTMT Montage #97 - 22 Mar 2013)

Listener Guide #304 – Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

Peterson grew up in Montreal’s Little Burgundy, a predominantly black neighbourhood where he found himself surrounded by the jazz culture that flourished in the early 20th century. His father, Daniel Peterson, an amateur trumpeter and pianist, was one of his first music teachers. As a child, Peterson studied with Hungarian-born pianist Paul de Marky, a student of István Thomán, who was himself a pupil of Franz Liszt. At the age of nine Peterson played piano with control that impressed professional musicians. (ITYWLTMT Montage #252 - 30 June 2017)

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Listener Guide #305 – Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess has been the subject of many so-called “concept albums”; two seminal concept albums – both from jazz legends dating from the same year, 1958 – come specifically to mind: Miles Davis’ East-Coast Studio effort and one by the duo of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong from the West Coast. The latter is presented in its entirety here today. (ITYWLTMT Montage #295 - 9 Nov 2018)