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During lack of time, a very busy week at the hospital, I only will share the music-video I had planned for today. I think you all know Vangelis, he is a modern classical composer, and I love his "electronic" music a lot. Of course there is no music better than the real classical music we have heard the last days here.
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until December 11th at noon (CET). I will publish our new episode, Divertimento in D minor, Op. 3, no. 3 by Anna Bon di Venezia, later on. For now .... have fun!
Welcome at a new episode of our daily haiku meme Carpe Diem. This month I hope to inspire you with classical music from all ages and from all over the world. Let the Music Inspire You ... with a beautiful piece of music by Mendelssohn.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy
Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847), was a German composer, pianist, organist
and conductor of the early Romantic period.A grandson
of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a
prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of
seven, when he was baptized as a Reformed Christian. Mendelssohn was recognized
early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalize
on his talent. Mendelssohn
enjoyed early success in Germany, where he also revived interest in the music
of Johann Sebastian Bach, and in his travels throughout Europe. He was particularly
well received in Britain as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten
visits there – during which many of his major works were premiered – form an
important part of his adult career. His essentially conservative musical
tastes, however, set him apart from many of his more adventurous musical
contemporaries such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles-Valentin Alkan and
Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatoire (now the University of Music and
Theatre Leipzig), which he founded, became a bastion of this anti-radical
outlook. Mendelssohn
wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His
best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer
Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the overture The
Hebrides, his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His Songs Without
Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of
relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and anti-Semitism in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality has now been recognized
and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic
era.
Again a composer whose legacy is awesome, but again he also died very young, as we have seen earlier this month. Must be the time in which they lived, but the most of the classical composers we have seen here now died very young.
I hope this music has inspired you. I couldn't come up with a haiku or tanka immediately, so maybe I will publish my response somewhat later.
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 10th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis, later on.
I hope you did like the composition of yesterday. Philip Glass is a great composer and he is from our time. This month we are seeking inspiration through the classical music by the greatest composers of all times and from all over the globe.
Today I hope to inspire you through a beautiful piece of music by Tchaikovsky. Who was Tchaikovsky? Let us take a look into history ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893), was a Russian composer of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally, bolstered by his appearances as a guest conductor in Europe and the United States. Tchaikovsky was honored in 1884, by Emperor Alexander III, and awarded a lifetime pension. Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia at that time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian composers of The Five, with whom his professional relationship was mixed. Tchaikovsky's training set him on a path to reconcile what he had learned with the native musical practices to which he had been exposed from childhood. From this reconciliation, he forged a personal but unmistakably Russian style—a task that did not prove easy. The principles that governed melody, harmony and other fundamentals of Russian music ran completely counter to those that governed Western European music; this seemed to defeat the potential for using Russian music in large-scale Western composition or for forming a composite style, and it caused personal antipathies that dented Tchaikovsky's self-confidence.
Here is the composition to inspire you, Waltz of the Flowers (video source You Tube)
"Waltz of the Flowers" is part of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" one of his most beautiful ballets.
spring breeze
cherry blossoms dance
conquering tears
In this haiku I have tried to bring the sadness of the cherry blossoms scattered by the wind, but also tried to bring the joy of that wonderful scene of cherry blossom petals dance on the wind. While they dance they make the sadness go away.
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 9th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, string symphony no.4 in C minor by Mendelssohn, later on.
With this haiku she won not only the opportunity to create an exclusive CDHK e- book, but also being our featured haiku poetess of this month. Candy's weblog: Rhymeswithbug you can find by clicking on the link.
This is what Candy says about herself: "I am a reader, writer, and snapper of photos in my garden. The tiny creatures I find there are my muses".
I have already started to create her E-book which I have given the "work-title": footprints and I love to share here a few of Candy's haiku to inspire you.
pray for
rain upon
this thirsty patch of terra
promise in red clouds
Today I have a wonderful piece of music for your inspiration. It is composed by one of the greatest modern composers I know, Philip Glass. At the end of our last century I heard work of Glass for the very first time. I was visiting a friend of mine and he had bought a wonderful modern Opera, as he called it. "You have to listen to this part", he said. He played a part of an Egyptian dead-song. "Awesome", I said. "Who has written this?" He showed me the case of the CD and there it was a beautiful image of Akhnaten, the forgotten pharao who introduced the "one-god" religion of Aton. Maybe you can remember his name from our trip along and over the Nile.
"This is Philip Glass' masterpiece "Akhnaten", my friend said. "I just recently discovered his music". I was immediately a fan of this modern times classical music composed by Philip Glass, but for your inspiration I have chosen another composition by him.
Philip Glass
(born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. He is considered one of the
most influential music makers of the late 20th century.
Although his compositions were often described as minimal music, as were other
"minimalists" such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Glass has since
distanced himself from the "minimalist" label, describing himself
instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he
has helped evolve stylistically. Currently, he describes himself as a
"classicist", pointing out that he is trained in harmony and
counterpoint and studied such composers as Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian
Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Nadia Boulanger.
Glass has founded a namesake musical group, the Philip Glass Ensemble, with
which he still performs on keyboards, and has written 24 operas, musical
theatre works, ten symphonies, eleven concertos, solo works, chamber music
including seven string quartets and instrumental sonatas, and film scores. Three
of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
This video is created by Elliott Walsh, (images and music are copyrighted and the copyright lays with the artists.)
sweet sensations I kiss the woman of my life my heart beats again
This episode ( a little belated maybe) is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 8th at noon (CET). I will publish our new episode, The Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky, later on. For now .... have fun!
This month, the last month of the year 2016, December its all about music. This month I love to inspire you through beautiful classical music of all ages and from all over the globe. Music ... emotion as is haiku and tanka. Haiku and Tanka are almost the same according to the sphere we want to share ... emotions ...
A beautiful piece of music can bring me to tears, but also to big smiles. A beautiful haiku or tanka does that to me also ... there are several haiku and tanka which brought me to tears, but also brought bright smiles on my face.
One of the haiku which I recently wrote which brought me to tears was the following: morning
dew
You certainly will remember this one, because I wrote it as response on the death-poem by Jane Reichhold, whom I miss every day. Of course there was the sadness and sorrow for the loss of our beloved co-host Jane Reichhold, but in this haiku I see the disappearing of the (in my opinion) most beautiful part of the early sunrise as the sun rises and brings the dew its light ... making the dew into diamonds or little crystals, but than ... as the sun rises further that fragile beauty disappears, evaporates .... and than there is that song of the skylark ... an intense feeling, an intense emotion ... tears ...
This haiku could be a serenade ... to the one you loved and lost, but it also brings the idea of rebirth to us again.
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828) was an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
Today I love to inspire you with a wonderful piece of music composed by Franz Schubert. (Video created by Angelo Vullo)
Listen ... listen to this beautiful piece of music, I think it's one of Schubert's most beautiful pieces.
a new day rises
birds sing their own little song
leaves joining
the mountain stream babbles forth
reflecting the sun beams ... a light show
Well ... this time I created a tanka inspired on this music, I hope you did like the music and that it will inspire you all to create your beauties through the music ...
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 7th at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, The Kiss by Philip Glass, later on.
Well ... our first day of December has almost gone. I had a day off, but it was a day planned fully with all other things I had to do, but hadn't time for. Today my mom and I visited the graveyard to see how beautiful my dad's grave has become after placing the tombstone. It has become really beautiful, but it was also very emotional to be there after eight months. We stood there in deep silence, only the sound of nature and the beating of our hearts ... finally we can start to mourn really.
Today I have a nice piece of music for you by one of my favorites composers, J.S. Bach. I have played a lot of his oeuvre and I enjoyed that very much. I played on the organ of our church and I had my own chamber organ with the sound pipes enclosed in its body. I really enjoyed playing it. It brought the church organ into our home.
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
J.S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motiveorganization, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and over three hundred cantatas of which around two hundred survive. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth. Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognized as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
The piece of music which I love to share today to inspire you is Air by J.S. Bach, it's a wonderful composition and I have played it several times myself.
heavenly music birds praising their Creator a new day rises
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 6th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, Serenade by Schubert, later on.
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