Wednesday, April 16, 2014

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014

QUOTE:
"Music, when soft voices die,
  Vibrates in the memory"

AUTHOR:
Percy Bysshe Shelley

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Music resides in your memory

  long after it is heard."




COMPOSER
MENDELSSOHN
Arthur Rackham: Act II, scene II (1908)


A MIDSUMMER



NIGHT'S DREAM



Overture Opus 21



Kurt Masur, Conductor

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, 1997

Arthur Rackham:  A Fairy  from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 1906

The Overture in E major, Op. 21, was written

in 1826 by Mendelssohn at 17 years and 6

months old near the start of his career. It was

written as a concert overture and originally not
associated with any performance of the play.
midsummer-web.jpg
The Overture was written after Mendelssohn
had read a German translation of the 
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
In 1842, only a few years before his death,
Mendelssohn received a commission from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_IV_of_Prussia
to write some music for a Potsdam production of
the play of A Midsummer Night's Dream (the
German title reads "Ein Sommernachtstraum")
to which he wrote incidental music (Op. 61)
into which he incorporated the
earlier existing Overture.
A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM
Overture Opus 21
Incidental Music Opus 61
(Complete)
Arturo Toscanini, Conductor
NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1947

I. Overture (00:10)

II. Intermezzo (11:26)

III. Nocturne (15:06)

IV. Scherzo (20:36)
V. Wedding March (24:56)
VI. Finale (29:41)

Arthur Rackham: King and Queen of the fairies - Oberon and Titania 
File:Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. William Blake. c.1786.jpg
William Blake: Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, c.1786
The incidental music
includes the world-
famous Wedding March.

A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM
Incidental Music Opus 61
"Wedding March"
Midsummer Night's Dream - Marc Chagall
Midsummer Night's Dream - Marc Chagall
Queen Victoria and her husband Albert
were very fond of Mendelssohn and
loved to spend afternoons playing the
composer's "Songs Without Words"
and singing selections from his oratorios.
Mendelssohn often used to play for the
royal family while on his visits to Britain.
Prince Albert played the organ in the Old Library in Buckingham Palace
in the presence of Queen Victoria and Felix Mendelssohn (1842)
So, on Jan. 25, 1858 the Wedding March
was performed in a royal wedding as a
recessional (commonly performed as the
bridal party files out at the end of the
service) for the marriage of princess
child of Queen Victoria) and Prince
Princess Victoria Royal Marriage January 25,1858
The event was enough to set a standard
for ages to come and after this it
became popular at weddings.
Gustave Doré  “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Gustave Doré:  A Midsummer Night's Dream

donkey - A Midsummer Night's Dream by ognavneterjanne, via Flickr

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/a-midsummer-nights-dream/character-map

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS
TESTING: NO CLASS

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENTS
GRANADA
1.  VIOLIN
a.  DOCUMENTARY:  "SMALL WONDERS"
1)  Students took down important notes to turn in
HILLVIEW
1.  VIOLIN
a.  Bow Preparation
b.  Bow Hold
1.  BACH
a.  Questions 9 and 10

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS
1.  HO HEY
2.  CIELITO LINDO
3.  CHARIOTS OF FIRE

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA
1. ELEANOR RIGBY
2.  VIVA LA VIDA