76 days ago by msaunders

As a working composer, I am always very interested in false starts, incomplete pieces, works which composers abandon at any stage of composition, even after performance. The process of composition is just as important to me as the product. It is only fitting, then, that I at least take a peak at the ...

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139 days ago by jami77

Here is where Mahler composed his Symphony No.3 – that symphony that is so much about nature to the point of pantheism. It is a lovely spot. Mahler composed during the summers for many years. He considered himself a part-time composer. His ‘day job’ was conducting. He had many huts like these that h ...

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195 days ago by Charles Noble

Here’s a great video that I found on YouTube of OSO Assistant principal trumpeter David Bamonte and Minnesota Orchestra Principal trumpeter Manny Laureano playing a particularly tough section from Aaron Copland’s great Symphony No. 3. They’re playing the Portland workshop of master trumpet maker Dav ...

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248 days ago by FK

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Mehta | Priest ~ Cast in two spellbinding movements that sound more like four (and are indexed as four on this recording), this thrilling symphony casts a spell as bewitching as that in any fairytale. It has excitement, drama, romance and, ultimately, a happy endin ...

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