Mrs. Robert Schumann's Birthday Anniversary

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13 September 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Clara Schumann
Classical musician, pianist, and composer
(13 September 1819 - 20 May1896)

Jozef de Beenhouwer, piano (2001)
Etude in Ab Major
1'51"

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13 September 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Clara Schumann
Classical musician, pianist, and composer
(13 September 1819 - 20 May1896)

Jozef de Beenhouwer, piano (2001)
Trois Romances in Eb Minor, Op. 11: I. - Andante
3'09"



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Humor Me, It's Dvorak's Birthday Anniversary

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8 September 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Antonín Dvořák
Czech classical composer
(8 September 1841 - 1 May 1904)

Rudi Moosmeir, jazz piano (2006)
Humoreska
3'32"


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8 September 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Antonín Dvořák
Czech classical composer
(8 September 1841 - 1 May 1904)

James Last and His Orchestra (1998)
Going Home
(Adagio from 'The New World Symphony')
3'12"



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Amy Beach Birthday Anniversary

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5 September 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Amy Beach
composer and pianist
(5 September 1867 - 27 December 1944)

Virginia Eskin, piano (1997)
Ballad in Db
- Part 1 of 2 excerpt 3'38"

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5 September 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Amy Beach
composer and pianist
(5 September 1867 - 27 December 1944)

Virginia Eskin, piano (1997)
Ballad in Db
- Part 2 of 2 excerpt 3'52"


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The Summer Laid Her Down to Die

September
Ethelwyn Wetherald
1895

But yesterday all faint for breath,
The Summer laid her down to die;
And now her frail ghost wandereth
In every breeze that loiters by.
Her wilted prisoners look up,
As wondering who hath broke their chain,
Too deep they drank of summer’s cup,
They have no strength to rise again.

How swift the trees, their mistress gone,
Enrobe themselves for revelry!
Ungovernable winds upon
The wold are dancing merrily.
With crimson fruits and bursting nuts,
And whirling leaves and flushing streams,
The spirit of September cuts
Adrift from August’s languid dreams.

A little while the revellers
Shall flame and flaunt and have their day,
And then will come the messengers
Who travel on a cloudy way.

And after them a form of light,
A sense of iron in the air,
Upon the pulse a touch of might
And winter’s legions everywhere.

Tomatito's Birthday on 20 August

Tomatito
Flamenco guitarist
Born: 20 August, 1958
Tomatito, Flameco guitar
with Michel Camilo, piano (2006)
- Libertango (Piazzolla)

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Birthdays of Ketèlbey and Glazunov

Panorama - Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland, July 2016

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9 Aug 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Albert Ketèlbey
composer, conductor, and pianist
(9 August 1879 - 26 November 1959)

Eric Rogers, conducting
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1996)

- Appy 'Amstead 2'25"
(Ketèlbey)

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10 Aug 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Alexander Glazunov
composer and conductor
(10 August 1865 - 21 March 1936)

Robert Irving, conducting,
Concert Arts Orchestra (1960)

- The Seasons, III. Summer:
Waltz of the Conrflowers and Poppies 2'01"
(Glazunov)


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Latin Jazz Sound for the 2016 Summer Olympics

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7 Aug 2016
A Salute to the 2016 Summer Olympics

Vann Burchfield, tenor sax (2015)

- One Night in Rio 3'35"
(Burchfield)


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7 Aug 2016
A Salute to the 2016 Summer Olympics

Vann Burchfield, tenor sax (2015)

- Rhythms of Rio 3'33"
(Burchfield)


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An Italian Baroque Composer's Birthday Anniversary

Leonardo Leo
Italian Baroque composer
(5 Aug 1694 - 31 Oct 1744)
Sol Gabetta, cello (2011)
- Cello Concerto in D Major
5. Fugue (Leo)

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Like Summer Cushions, For All Guests That Come

"This silken grass, these pleasant flowers in bloom,
Among these tasty molehills that do lie
Like summer cushions, for all guests that come;
Those little feathered folk, that sing and fly
Above these trees, in that so gentle sky,
Where not a cloud dares soil its heavenly light;
And this smooth river softly grieving bye—
All fill mine eyes with so divine a sight,
As makes me sigh that it should e’er be night."

-John Clare

The Clebanoff Strings(1961)
- Quite Village (Baxter)

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Steal Forth with Silent Drums

"I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;

...And I have loved you all too long and well
To carry still the high sweet breast of spring

...Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes,
I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums."

--Edna St. Vincent Millay

Living Guitars(1964))
- 500 Miles (Hedy West et al.)

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