Music to Lift Our Spirits . . . Works by Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Our ears have opened wider since the era when Duke Ellington lived. Nearly a half century after his death, we are still coming to terms with his monumental influence. Without him, there would have been no West Side Story, no Guys and Dolls, or countless other...
Music to Lift Our Spirits . . . An American in Paris by George Gershwin
Although many of us are sheltering at home, there is nothing stopping us from daydreaming about all the wonderful places we will go when we can travel again. George Gershwin May we suggest a virtual trip to Paris? You can go there today by clicking on a playlist we...
Music to Lift Our Spirits . . . The Haydn Trumpet Concerto
The Haydn Trumpet Concerto could be the perfect piece to lift our spirits during our current health crisis. So we have put it into a playlist that members of Classical Archives can hear with just one click. Hakan Hardenberger conductor and trumpettist Photo: Marco...
Music to Lift Our Spirits . . . The English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams
We cannot recall the last time we wrote about a piece of music composed for military band. But when our current search for mood-lifting musical selections led us to rediscover The English Folk Song Suite, a piece that Ralph Vaughan Williams composed in 1923 for...
Music to Lift Our Spirits . . . Leonard Bernstein’s Candide
In these difficult days, it seems hard to make an argument that you and I are living in “The best of all possible worlds.” Yet that is the message of Candide, an operetta that Leonard Bernstein wrote in 1956 to a libretto by Lillian Hellman. Because Candide is based...
Music to Lift Our Spirits . . . A Playlist of Works Written by Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Before He Reached Age 18
A Playlist of Works Written by Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Before He Reached Age 18 A lot of the music composed by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy seems happy. But there is something especially joyous about works he composed while he was still a teenager. Youth, high spirits...
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