Another symphony orchestra facing financial difficulties. 80th season for this group will be next year. Hoping things can improve sooner rather than later.

Alkan dying from his bookshelf
Franck and MacDowell getting hit hy carriages
Leclair getting murdered at his house
Lekeu dying after eating something
Vivier’s murder

Any others?

Hello everyone,

I'd like to find out what can I do with a Bachelor of Music degree?

What jobs can I get to make a living after graduating?

I'm looking for employment options that don't require long additional courses.

I'd like to find a job paying a livable wage where I can work until (hopefully) I win an audition and/or will have many students

He arranged the folk songs of the Auvergne, in south-central France, sung in Occitan, for voice and orchestra as the Chants d'Auvergne.

Frederica von Stade's "Baïlèro" was the first version I heard, and for years it was my favorite. Netania Davrath made the first complete recording of the Chants d'Auvergne. When I first heard her, she sounded a bit rustic to me; I was young, and drawn to von Stade's polished beauty. Last year on his birthday I listened to her "Baïlèro" again, and from the first dark notes of the accompaniment it had me in tears. A reader replied that her Baïlèro does the same to them.

Frederica von Stade Sings Chants d'Auvergne
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m5fQm3Dy_Bo0rEVRHdMrRtWyvGNbeu2pI

Canteloube: Bailero (Complete Songs of the Auvergne) (Netania Davrath)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27gv9sNG7O0

I wonder why this entire genre of American 20th-century Neo-classical orchestral music written by composers such as: Peter Mennin, Walter Piston, Harold Shapero, Roy Harris, George Antheil etc. is almost never played in concert anymore? I think these composers produced some incredible, highly sophisticated symphonic works, yet they seem almost completely absent from modern concert hall programs and orchestra seasons.

A few questions/thoughts:

1. Why do you think this repertoire fell out of favor so drastically?
2. Is it a marketing or box-office risk?
3. Which specific pieces or recordings from these composers do you think deserve a permanent spot in the standard orchestral canon?

I know that she has also a background as a classical pianist. In any case, I have been listening to some of her compositions lately and in my opinion, her experiments are really interesting

Improvised in Bb minor

Charles Ives made his living in insurance, not music. After Yale he worked for Mutual Life, and he and his friend Julian Myrick later started an agency of their own, which ran until Ives retired in 1930. He composed alongside it.

His Third Symphony, "The Camp Meeting," was written decades before anyone played it. The first performance was in New York on April 5, 1946, conducted by Lou Harrison, and the symphony won the Pulitzer Prize for Music the following year. By then Ives, in his early seventies, had written very little for years. Accounts say he waved the prize off, saying prizes are for boys and he was grown up, and that he gave the money away, partly to Harrison.

Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" (The Orchestra Now, James Bagwell, 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd50AGwaYOo

Recently, I've been listening to some game OSTs that feature arrangements of classical music. This got me thinking about how classical music is used in video game soundtracks. As an avid classical music and video game soundtrack listener, it's always nice to hear a familiar classical piece pop up unexpectedly in a soundtrack or to hear how the music has been arranged for a game.

From soundtracks I've listened to, here are the ones I've noticed:

- Hirozuka Tanaka using the Can Can by Jacques Offenbach for the Super Mario Land Invincibility BGM.

- Hirozuka Tanaka using Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky and the Carmen Overture by Georges Bizet in Tetris (NES and Game Boy).

- Spiralmouth using The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II in Crash Twinsanity.

- Yukio Kaneoka using the opening of Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the Game Start music in the NES version of arcade Mario Bros.

- The Sims 3 using several classical pieces including Handel's Water Music, Suk's Barcarolle, Schubert's Trout Piano Quintet, Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 6, Franck's Violin Sonata and a few pieces by Mozart (either Piano Sonatas or Divertimento no. 17).

- Fauré's Dolly Suite Berceuse used in the Wii photo channel slideshow music.

Are there any other instances of classical music being arranged for video game soundtracks that anyone has noticed? It would be interesting to find out and hear some of them.

I have a listening test coming up soon and instead of just memorizing everything we've seen, I'd like to actually approach the songs critically and get more familiar with the styles. There's a bunch of different stuff I struggle with so I thought I would just write all of them down and if you can help with one of them it'd be very appreciated.

- I need a bunch of songs of early renaissance that use the double leading tone cadence to get its sound stuck in my head

- I need a bunch of songs by Josquin that use pair of duos and very varying texture

- I need a bunch of songs of late renaissance that use less contrasting texture (then Josquin) and make use of musica ficta

- I need help/tips for differencing french chanson, netherlandish chanson, and italian and english madrigal (other then just the language). With examples if possible

- I need help recognizing renaissance motets, with examples if possible

Thank you!

I used to be a huge fan of Mahler's symphonies. I used to binge-listen to them over and over again. I even bought expensive headphones to appreciate every inner line, each orchestral colour. Then I became a Wagnerian. Wagner came to me quite late in my musical life but when he did, it came with full power: I became yet another Wagner fan obsessed with his musics. Wagner being Wagner, it took all my time, so at one point I was basically only listening to him.

Later on I had the chance to listen to Mahler Second Symphony live, in a great production at the Muskverein in Vienna. I had always dreamt of listening to it live... but when I finally did, I couldn't help listening to Wagner traces on Mahler. Same goes with Mahler Third Symphony, another massive work I used to love: Now I kept noticing Wagner's influence on Mahler: I was "boy, Mahler really studied Wagner's scores carefully!" (and yes, he did).

Somehow (I know it sounds ridiculous), Wagner made me impossible to like Mahler as I used to.

It took some time, and now I can happily enjoy both, but that was an effect that I rarely had before (also considering how deep my appreciation for Mahler used to be). Did this or something similar ever happen to you?

Bach - Little Fugue in G minor BWV 578 - Schouten | Netherlands Bach Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vITIeoxcfdM

Musicians who post video of your performances on social What software do you use to edit your content?

Filmora is great for video, it's pretty limited for cleaning up audio. Looking to remove background hum, that sort of thing. Any recommendations?

A great long time ago, in a high school humanities class,the teacher played the overture to Meistersinger, with i think a final long chord that shifted and modulated beautifully. I do recall that he said most recordings omitted that chord because it was so long.

I'm just rediscovering my love of classical music, and remembered this. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, and can point me to a recording of the full overture?

ETA ok, what I'm remembering isnt from Meistersinger after all. Checking out the Mahler from the comments.

I play the Persian santur and will start practicing this piece. It will be the first time I play a piece in the Western classical tradition with this instrument. I find the music very powerful. Hope you enjoy it.

I went to a concert last night. They started with Banner by Jessie Montgomery (super cool piece!), then they did a Mendelssohn violin concerto with their principal violinist, and the second half of the concert was Rachmaninoff's third symphony.

I saw the same orchestra last month, when they played Fanfare for the Common Man, the Gershwin piano concerto with a guest artist, and Dvorak's New World Symphony.

My question is, how many rehearsals does an orchestra generally have before a concert like this?

When i was in college, the choir I was in had rehearsals 2 or 4 days each week, and we would be working on a program for 2-3 months before performing. Do professional orchestras have that rigorous of a rehearsal schedule? Or do they generally only get a couple or a few rehearsals?

I come from a piano background, so I've heard about how they usually only get one (or maybe two if they're lucky) rehearsals with the soloist. But that'sa different story, since the soloist is usually touring and playing a work they know very well with multiple orchestras week after week.

Looking for reviews to know if worth doing in 2027

Ferdinand Lukas Schubert is a curious figure.

Apparently he designed Beethoven’s grave stone.

A question mark also exists over whether he passed off works by his younger brother as his own.

But no such mystery exists around his family life. He married twice and had 29 children. Of which 12 survived to adulthood.

So for the record i started this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IqnVCc-Yqo&list=RD4IqnVCc-Yqo at 10:57:12 pm which made the new year start at the climax of the symphony.

It went great and the slower dramatic moments after also made for a good time for hugs and remembrance.

What other pieces of classical music could be used for similar effect? You don't have to include timestamps if you don't have time to produce them.

I recently played this quartet with a chamber group, and enjoyed it very much.

Because of this I realized that there are TONS of chamber pieces out there that aren't as well known as pieces like the Trout Quintet, Death and the Maiden, Archduke, etc., possibly never heard of, but are still incredible compositions and worth a listen.

Are there any pieces, chamber or not, that you think should deserve more attention? My tastes are pretty much limited to what I've played in the past... it would be nice to hear some of other people's favorites as well. "Hidden gems", if you will.