by Barry Lenson | Dec 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
What is your favorite piece of Christmas choral music? You might answer Handel’s Messiah or Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Those are masterpieces. But have you heard the beautiful oratorio for Christmas that was written about a century earlier by the German...
by Barry Lenson | Dec 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
LISTEN NOW if you are a member of Classical Archives Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera that the American composer Gian Carlo Menotti created for the NBC Opera Theatre. Thought to be the first opera created for television, Amahl was first performed and telecast...
by Barry Lenson | Nov 22, 2021 | Ludwig van Beethoven
Classical Music You Must Know . . .. Symphony No. 5 in C-, Op.67 by Ludwig van Beethoven LISTEN NOW if you are a member of Classical Archives What can we say about Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 that has not been said before? It is probably the most beloved and renowned...
by Barry Lenson | Nov 16, 2021 | Edouard Lalo, Pablo de Sarasate
Classical Music You Must Know . . . Symphonie espagnole, for violin and orchestra in D-, Op.21, by Édouard Lalo With this post, Classical Archives is starting a series of posts about great classical works that every music-lover should know. Why are we starting this...
by Barry Lenson | Aug 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
We learned this week that Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas recently had surgery for a brain tumor. What unsetting news! Yet we have also learned that MTT (as his legions of fans like to call him) is mending up just fine and is planning to return to the podium to conduct...
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