Ere I Forget All The Joy That Is Mine, Today

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30 August  2015

A Birthday Anniversary
Johnny Mann
American musician and conductor
(30 August 1928 - 14 June 2014)

The Johnny Mann Singers
(1964)
- Today
(R. Sparkes) 3'00"

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31 August 2015

Dudley "Big Tiny" Little
American country & blues pianist 
(31 August 1930 - 3 March 2010)

"Big Tiny" Little, piano
(1965)
- King of the Road
(R. Miller) 1'50"


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Eric Coates' Birthday Anniversary

Eric Coates
English light music composer
(27 August 1886 - 21 December 1957)

Sir Charles Mackerras, conducting
London Symphony Orchestra (1986)

- "By the Sleepy Lagoon"(Coates)

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Un conseil de goûter le charme d'être au monde

"...to taste the charm in and of the world"
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22 August 2015

A Birthday Anniversary
Claude Debussy
French neo-classical composer
(22 August 1862 - 25 March 1918)

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
(2011)
- Bon Soir 
(Debussy) 3'00"

~Debussy wrote this piece to the setting of Paul Bourget's poem, "Beau Soir"

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22 August 2015

A Birthday Anniversary
Claude Debussy
French neo-classical composer
(22 August 1862 - 25 March 1918)

Joshua Bell, violin
(2003)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
(Debussy) 2'36"


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Two Women of Note Birthdays

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21 August  2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Lili Boulanger
French composer

(21 August 1893 - 15 March 1918)

JoAnn Falletta, conducting
(1997)
- Du matin de printemps 
(L. Boulanger) 5'04"

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21 August 2015
Consuelo Velazquez
Mexican concert pianist & composer 
(21 August 1916 - 22 January 2005)

Dutch Swing College Band
(1970)
- Besame Mucho
(C. Velazquez) 2'36"


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August - A Poem of Yury Zhivago

August

This was its promise, held to faithfully:
The early morning sun came in this way
Until the angle of its saffron beam
Between the curtains and the sofa lay,

And with its ochre heat it spread across
The village houses, and the nearby wood,
Upon my bed and on my dampened pillow
And to the corner where the bookcase stood.

Then I recalled the reason why my pillow
Had been so dampened by those tears that fellI'd
dreamt I saw you coming one by one
Across the wood to wish me your farewell.

You came in ones and twos, a straggling crowd ;
Then suddenly someone mentioned a word:
It was the sixth of August, by Old Style,
And the Transfiguration of Our Lord.

For from Mount Tabor usually this day
There comes a light without a flame to shine,
And autumn draws all eyes upon itself
As clear and unmistaken as a sign.

But you came forward through the tiny, stripped,
The pauperly and trembling alder grove,
Into the graveyard's coppice, russet-red,
Which, like stamped gingerbread, lay there and glowed.

Pourcel & Shearing Birthday Anniversaries

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14 August 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Franck Pourcel
French musician & conductor
(14 August 1914 - 12 November 2000)

Franck Pourcel, conducting
(1988)
- Sicilienne
(J.S. Bach; arr. F. Pourcel) 3'54"

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13 August 2015
George Shearing, OBE
UK jazz pianist
(13 August 1919 - 14 February 2011)

George Shearing Quintet
(1958)
- The Moon Was Yellow
(Ahlert) 2'40"


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On Alexander Glazunov's 150th Birthday Anniversary

Alexander Glazunov
Russian Composer
Late Romantic Period
(10 Aug 1865 - 21 Mar 1936)

Robert Irving, conducting
Concert Arts Orchestra (1960)

- The Seasons, Op. 67, III. Summer - Barcarolle (Glazunov)

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Birthdays of Andre & Morris

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2 August 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Andre Gagnon
Canadian pianist, composer & conductor
(born: 2 August 1942)

Andre Gagnon, piano
(1996)
- The Way You Look Tonight
(Kern) 3'49"

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1 August 2015
Morris Stoloff
American composer & conductor
(1 August 1898 - 16 April 1980)

Morris Stoloff, conducting
(1955)
- Moonglow & The Theme from 'Picnic'
(Duning) 3'48"


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