Alex and Hank

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12 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Alexander Borodin
Russian Romantic Era composer
(12 November 1833 - 27 September 1887)

James Last
and His Orchestra

Notturno (1998 recording)
(after Borodin, String Quartet No. 2)
2'48"


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12 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Henry Jerome
trumpeter and orchestra leader
(12 November 1917 - 23 March 2011)

Blue Moon (1960 recording)
(Rodgers & Hart)
2'00"


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This Democracy of Clouds in Full Hurricane

"These waves; this ebb and flow; this terrible go-and-come; this noise of every gust; these lights and shadows; these vegetations belonging to the gulf; this democracy of clouds in full hurricane; these eagles in the foam; these wonderful gatherings of stars reflected in one knows not what mysterious crowd by millions of luminous specks, heads confused with the innumerable; those grand errant lightnings which seem to watch; these huge sobs; these monsters glimpsed at; this roaring, disturbing these nights of darkness; these furies, these frenzies, these tempests, these rocks, these shipwrecks, these fleets crushing each other, these human thunders mixed with divine thunders, this blood in the abyss; then these graces, these sweetnesses, these fêtes these gay white veils, these fishing-boats, these songs in the uproar, these splendid ports, this smoke of the earth, these towns in the horizon, this deep blue of water and sky, this useful sharpness, this bitterness which renders the universe wholesome, this rough salt without which all would putrefy, these angers and assuagings, this whole in one, this unexpected in the immutable, this vast marvel of monotony inexhaustibly varied, this level after that earthquake, these hells and these paradises of immensity eternally agitated, this infinite, this unfathomable,—all this can exist in one spirit..."

Victor Hugo
1864

Vincenzo Bellini's Birthday Anniversary

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3 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Vincenzo Bellini
Italian opera composer
(3 November 1801 - 23 September 1835)

Roger Lord, oboe
Neville Marriner, conducting (1964)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Concerto in E-flat Major for Oboe and Strings
First Movement Excerpt: "Maestoso e deciso"
(Bellini)
3'26"

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3 November 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Vincenzo Bellini
Italian opera composer
(3 November 1801 - 23 September 1835)

Montserrt Caballe, soprano
Shirley Verrett, messo-soprano

From the opera, "Norma"
Excerpt: "Mira, o Norma" duet (1991)
(Bellini)
2'09"


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Reformation Sunday

Some selected bible verses for this Reformation Sunday:

• Sola Scriptura
Exodus 20:1-17 ESV
• Sola Gratia
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV
• Solus Christus
1 Timothy 2:1-6 ESV
• Sola Fide
Romans 3:9-26 ESV
• Soli Deo Gloria
1 Timothy 1:17 ESV

Thus All Doth Fall

Rainer Maria Rilke
"Autumn" (1918)
Autumn
Rainer Maria Rilke
1918

The leaves fall, fall as from far,
Like distant gardens withered in the heavens;
They fall with slow and lingering descent.

And in the nights the heavy Earth, too, falls
From out the stars into the Solitude.

Thus all doth fall. This hand of mine must fall
And lo! the other one:—it is the law.
But there is One who holds this falling
Infinitely softly in His hands.

Birthdays of Scarlatti and Paganini

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26 October 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti
Baroque era Italian composer
(26 October 1685 - 23 July 1757)

Mikhail Pletnev, piano (2001)

Sonata in D minor, K. 9, "Pastorale"
(Scarlatti)
2'33"

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27 October 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Niccolò Paganini
Romantic era Italian composer and musician
renown for his string instrument compositions
(27 October 1782 - 27 May 1840)

Charlie Byrd, classical guitar (1971)

Sonatina No. 1
(Paganini)
2'00"


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Georges and Barbara Have Their Day

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25 October 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Georges Bizet
Romantic era French composer
(25 October 1838 - 3 June 1975)

Les Brown and His Orchestra (2001 compilation)

Bizet Has His Day
(B. Homer -
after Bizet L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2: Farandole)
2'22"

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25 October 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Barbara Cook
American singer and stage actress
Born: 25 October 1827.

Barbara Cook & Robert Preston (1957)

Till There Was You
(Willson)
2'45"


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From No. 3, Rosa Klebb, with Love

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18 October 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Lotte Lenya
Austrian singer and actress
wife of Kurt Weill
(18 October 1898 - 27 November 1982)

Lotte Lenya (1956)
Moritat vom Mackie Messer
(Weill)
3'04"


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18 October 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Lotte Lenya
Austrian singer and actress
wife of Kurt Weill
(18 October 1898 - 27 November 1982)

Lotte Lenya (1955)
September Song
(Weill & Anderson)
3'45"


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Some Enchanted Evening

The London Promenade Orchestra (2006)

- Some Enchanted Evening
(Rodgers)

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Roger Williams Birthday Anniversary

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1 October 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Roger Williams, piano
American pop music pianist
(1 October 1924 - 8 October 2011)

Roger Williams, piano (1955)
on the Ed Sullivan Show
Autumn Leaves
(Kosma,Prevert, and Mercer)
3'57"

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1 October 2016
A Birthday Anniversary

Roger Williams
American pop music pianist
(1 October 1924 - 8 October 2011)

Roger Williams, piano (1984)
Born Free
(Barry)
2'17"


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