 | Project 366 continues in 2019 with "Dates on the Musical Calendar". Read more here. |
Highlights
- 2-Feb
- Groundhog Day [Guide #324]
- 9-Feb - HB Alban Berg (Born OTD, 1885) [Guide # 228]
- 14-Feb - Vallentine's Day [Guide # 325]
- 17-Feb - Family Day (in parts of Canada) [Guide #106]
- 25-Feb - Mardi Gras (the last day before the start of Lent) [Guide #
240]
- 26-Feb - Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent) [Guide #
181]
- 29-Feb
- Leap Day [Guide # 328]
In terms of
the remaining dates on the Calendar, many are filled with Listener Guides from
our look at Earlu music, the music of J. S. Bach and Classicists. Additional
listener Guides include a montage of works sharing the “number 104” [Guide
#327] and, in keeping with Weber’s music, some clarinet works performed by
Slovenian clarinetist Joze Kotar [Guide #326].
Your
Listener Guides
Listener Guide #324 – Groundhog Day
Groundhog
Day is a celebrated on February 2nd in the United States and Canada. According
to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this
day, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter-like weather will soon
end. If it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat
back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.
(ITYWLTMT
Podcast #41 - 2 Feb 2012)
Listener Guide #325 – Plaisir
d’amour
In
anticipation of Valentine’s Day, this listener guide is a montage of
love-themed songs spanning 300 years – from lieder, to opera/stage to popular
repertoires. (ITYWLTMT Montage #303 - 8 Feb 2019)
Listener Guide #326 –
Jože Kotar is born in Trbovlje and became principal clarinetist of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in 2007 after serving in that role at the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra for 12 years. He is also a tenured professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. Kotar is a member, co-founder and artistic director of the Slovenian Clarinet Orchestra and a member of the Ariart Wind Quintet and the MD7 Contemporary Music Ensemble. As a clarinetist, he collaborates with the Slovenian Chamber Orchestra, the Academie Ars Musicae Orchestra, etc.) Since 2007 he is a conductor and artistic director at the Trbovlje Workers Band.. (Once Upon the Internet #29 - 823 September 2014)
Listener Guide
#327 – No. 104
We find numbers everywhere in music: three movements in a
concerto, four movements in a symphony, the opus numbers, the catalog numbers
(K, BWV, FWV, S, D, Sz, …). The numerical order of like-works (27 Mozart Piano
Concertos, 104 Haydn symphonies, 48 preludes and fugues in two books of the
Well-Tempered Clavier). Many great works have in common the number 104. (ITYWLTMT
Podcast #57 - 01 Jun 2012)
Listener Guide
#328 – Sonate a quattro
In the 1940s, composer Alfredo Casella discovered a set of
six string sonatas written by Rossini in 1804, when he was still quite young.
The pieces were written for his friend, Agostino Triossi, who was an
accomplished amateur bassist. Triossi, Morini (Triossi's violinist cousin),
Morini's cellist brother, and Rossini performed the pieces, apparently in a
less-than-stellar fashion. Rossini says his playing (on the second violin part)
was the worst of all. (Once Upon the Internet #30- Oct-14-2014)
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