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Quarantine Mini 26 - RVW, AEH & EAS!
🕑 Added 2020-04-16 01:10:20 +0000 UTCSpeaks for itself.
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Heather Crocetto
Just catching up - there was a ton of RVW in my college choir's repertiore, and the songs were lovely to sing.
JoshG
I'm with you on the previous classical music posts, but the vocal one....I just can't bear that stuff. To each their own.
Emily Brown
The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh put Shakespeare and Langston Hughes to music, very cool. I wish I could find a recording of the one scene from Macbeth.
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
We'll have to talk sometime; I've spent the last three years reading all I can on WWI, though specifically the causes, haven't even got to the, you know, WAR yet!
Gina Dalfonzo
I'm sold! Those were beautiful.
Bridget K
Thanks so much for this--I was lucky enough to sing RVW's Dona Nobis Pacem years back, and it was wonderful. And just to add, RVW enlisted in WWI, first as a medical orderly, carrying stretchers and driving ambulances, and then serving in an artillery squad (apparently he suffered a good deal of hearing loss as a result). I find it so profound that he could compose something so haunting and gentle after seeing what he saw (he wrote this in 1923). I wrote my PhD Thesis on WWI, so I honestly can't help talking about it...sorry!
Christopher Dazey
Sounded to me like it was Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
John G
Ah yes, these are gorgeous. I accompanied these pieces on piano for vocalists back in my college teaching days. Thanks for sharing these!
Mike Truman
I am enjoying these culture lessons.
Taylor Conner
That occasionally happens to me with the Patreon app... it will stop notifying me when there are new posts... Deleting and reinstalling the app seems to fix it for a while but then it will happen again... very annoying!
Anonymous Person
Is it just me or is nobody else getting an update to the Patreoj feed past April 1?
Moviegique
I've never heard this genre but it's very reminiscent of Elizabethan era troubadours like John Dowland.
Doodle
Mike, I may have just missed it, but who was the vocalist on the recordings you played? They were lovely. I’m ashamed to admit, although I have some musical training (a lot of it choral), I’d never heard these pieces before.
