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Nov 272013
Listen to RadioBach.com Thanksgiving at 5 p.m. for the Hanukkah Story, performed by the Western Wind Chorus and narrated by Theodore Bikel.
Nov 272013
“The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.”
“I’m gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.”
Today is the birthday of the elegant and aristocratic pianist WILHELM KEMPF (1895-1991)!!
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Nov 252013
Today is the birthday of composer and music critic VIRGIL THOMSON (1896-1989)!!
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Nov 252013
Thomson was a Kansas City native who studied at Harvard and eventually moved to Paris where he became friends with artistic luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Aaron Copland, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, who the libretto for Thomson’s opera “Four Saints in Three Acts.” Wherever Thomson went, however, he always took Kansas City with him, and the sound of the prairie is heard in many of his works.
“I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.”
Nov 252013
He was the organist for St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg. He wrote the music for Silent Night (Stille Nacht). Father Joseph Mohr wrote the lyrics. It was first performed at Midnight Mass in St. Nicholas Church in 1818. The original church was destroyed by a flood in 1899, but there is a “Silent Night” chapel standing in its place today. The six-minute video below gives a nice tour of the church and Oberndorf.
Nov 222013
“I have observed that people who are moved by music are more sensitive to all manifestations of life”
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)!!!
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Nov 222013
Today is also the feast of ST. CECILIA, the patron saint of music, a fact which Benjamin Britten found deeply significant. Here is Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia.
Nov 122013
According to BBC Music Magazine, the Slovak soprano is ranked number seven on the list of 20 Greatest Sopranos of the Recorded Era.
Radio Bach salutes our veterans!! Thank you for serving our great country!!
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Nov 072013