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Author: ~ jerry
Date: 2002-09-04 17:37
FWIW,
Beethovan Symphony #9 "Choral" came in first in WRR's annual top forty this year.
Go to <www.wrr101.com> to see the list (also view previous years).
~ jerry
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Author: ~ jerry
Date: 2002-09-04 22:36
OOPS!
Slaps face <:%} ......................I copied it but forgot to paste it .......GRRRR!
<www.wrr101.com>
~ jerry
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Author: ~ jerry
Date: 2002-09-04 22:38
Maybe I didn't forget to paste it......................it's not showing up, MARK?
<www.wrr101.com> www.wrr101.com
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Author: ~ jerry
Date: 2002-09-04 22:40
AHA!!
It's not showing up when I place the <....> at each end..............hummm!
~ jerry
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2002-09-05 05:09
I might have left off the Carmina Burana and added both the Mozart Clarinet Conerto and the Requiem, but what a list! A thorough understanding of all of those would likely be the equivalent of a doctorate in music history and style.
My son's then band director asked me a few years ago what my favorite piece of classical music was. Without hesitation I answered the Beethoven 9th. (And not just the 4th movement, but the entire work, the second movement is glorious as well, though the 3rd is just a bit of a sleeper.) The wonderous words written by Schiller are usually (rightly) sung in German, an English translation can be found here;
http://www.ddc.net/ygg/etext/ode.htm (This has more verses than are sung in the Beethoven work.)
While fairly often performed, I wonder if it would not be done more if it didn't require a syphony orchestra, a vocal quartet and a largish choir to perform what for the vocalists is only about 15 minutes of music.
I've sung this twice over the years, once in English and the other time in German. It is a workout for the choir.
The 9th plays a significant part in the movie "Clockwork Orange." If you've never seen this (no kids please, this is a VIOLENT film) it might change the way you look at the 9th as well as the Rossini "Thieving Magpie" and "Singing in the rain."
Though most of us likely know, some of our younger readers may not realize that Beethoven was completely deaf when he wrote this!
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Author: William
Date: 2002-09-05 14:12
"in WRR's annual top forty this year."
Dumb (but serious) question--what's *WWR*??????
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-09-05 15:44
Go to the site and click on "Contact Us." You'll see it's a classical station in Dallas.
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