Five years ago, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were married. How time flies. Their wedding music is revisited.
Music for the Wedding Service of Prince William and Kate Middleton
29th April 2011
Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton are pleased to announce the music for their Wedding Service. The music has a largely British theme. The Couple have put considerable thought into selecting the music, and their choices blend traditional music with some newly commissioned pieces.
Before the Service
The music before the Service will begin with a selection of organ pieces:
Fantasia in G (Pièce d’orgue à 5) by Johann Sebastian Bach, followed by
American inventor Samuel (Finley Breese) Morse was born on April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Aside from being an inventor, he was also an artist. From 1832, Morse experimented on a practical system of using electricity to send messages by telegraphy. He developed the Morse Code to simplify the system. In 1844, Morse sent the message "What God hath wrought?" from Washington to Baltimore. He collaborated with Cyrus Field in laying the first transatlantic cable.
Composer Ennio Morricone is rightly considered one of the world's greatest living film composers, multi-awarded for musical film scores.
Cinema Paradiso (Italian: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, for "New Paradise Cinema"), is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film stars Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Leopoldo Trieste and Marco Leonardi, produced by Franco Cristaldi and Giovanna Romagnoli. The music score was composed by Ennio Morricone along with his son, Andrea.
"Nuovo Cinema Paradiso" (The Complete Edition) 1988.
Tracklist:
1. Cinema Paradiso - Main Theme
2. Maturity - Maturità
3. Love Theme - Tema d'Amore
4. Childhood and Manhood - Infanzie e Maturità
5. While Thinking About Her - Ripensandola
6. Cinema on Fire - Cinema in Fiamme [Extended Version]
7. Love Theme - Tema d'Amore [Version 2]
8. Totò and Alfredo - Totò e Alfredo
9. After the Destruction - Dopo il Crollo [Extended Version]
10. Love Theme for Nata - Tema D'amore per Nata
11. Visito to the Cinema - Visita al Cinema
12. First Youth - Prima Gioventù
13. Four Interludes - Quattro Interludi
14. Runaway, Search and Rescue - Fuga, Ricerca e Ritorno
15. From American Sex Appeal to the First Fellini
16. Love Theme - Tema d'Amore [Version 3]
17. Projection for Two - Proiezione a Due
18. Totò and Alfredo - Totò e Alfredo [Version 2]
19. Bicycle Theme - Tema della Bicicletta
20. Visito to the Cinema - Visita al Cinema [Version 2]
21. Maturity - Maturità [Version 2]
22. For Elena - Per Elena
23. Cinema Paradiso [Final]
This day, on April 21, 1918, in St. Petersburg (formerly Petrograd), Symphony No. 1 in D major (Op. 25), by Sergei Prokofiev was first performed, conducted by the composer himself.
Prokofiev began work in 1916, finishing it on September 10. It is written in loose imitation of the style of Haydn and Mozart. This symphony is one of Prokofiev's most popular works. It is commonly known as Classical Symphony, a name given to it by Prokofiev himself.
French composer Germaine (Marcelle) Tailleferre (April 19, 1892 – November 7, 1983) was the only female member of ‘Les Six’, a group of French composers influenced by Erie Satie and by Jean Cocteau’s anti-Romantic aesthetic. She wrote operas, ballets, instrumental music and film scores.
Tailleferre was born in Parc-Sait-Maur near Paris. Despite her father’s opposition, she entered Paris Conservatoire in 1904. She studied with Maurice Ravel and Charles Koechlin. Her former tutor was Sautereau-Meyer.
Aside from being a composer, she was a piano prodigy who began to compose at age 5. She had an amazing memory and won numerous prizes.Her numerous works include the opera Il etait un petit navire (1951), and the ballet Le marchand d'oiseaux (1923).
Nabucco (English Nebuchadnezzar), is an Italian opera in four acts composed by Giuseppe Verdi in 1841 to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. It is based on Biblical stories from the Books of Jeremiah and Daniel. Under its original name of Nabucodonosor, the opera was first performed at La Scala in Milan on 9 March 1842.
The opera Nabucco is considered to have permanently established Verdi's reputation as a composer. He commented that "this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. And though I had
many difficulties to fight against, it is certain that Nabucco was born under a lucky star."
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Federico Mompou(16 April 1893 – 30 June 1987), was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was a Spanish Catalan composer. He was also a known pianist in his time.
Best known for songs and solo piano music, his Scènes d'enfants (1915–1918) inspired the French critic Émile Vuillermoz to proclaim Mompou as the successor to Claude Debussy.
The ballet Il amor brujo(Love, the Magician) by Manuel de Falla is first performed on April 15, 1915, in Madrid, Spain. It was initially commissioned (1914-1915) as gitaneria (gypsy piece), it wasn't successful. But when De Falla transformed it into a ballet (1945) scored for a full symphony with three short songs for mezzo-soprano, it was successful. The work is distinctively Andalusian, with the songs in the Andalusian Spanish dialect of the gypsies.
Brief Synopsis
El amor brujo is about an Andalusian gypsy girl called Candela who falls in love with a man called Carmelo, after her unfaithful husband had died. She had only been forced to marry him.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S WONDERFUL TOWN presented by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in collaboration of SquabbaLogic Independent Music Theatre
The trials of youth, the pains
of being a dame and the thrills and spills of the Big Apple- that’s the
comedy and pathos of Wonderful Town.
Briefly, about WT: Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters Ruth and Eileen, who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which in turn originated from autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney first published in The New Yorker in the late 1930s and later published in book form as My Sister Eileen. Only the last two stories in McKenney's book were used, and were modified.
Sydney Philharmonia's 350-strong Festival Chorus. Full concert staging a luscious score. Brings to life the all
too rarely heard classic from the golden era of Broadway musicals -
Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town. With a stunning mix of classical,
jazz, popular music styles, all performed in an absolute feast for the ears.
The cast includesBeth Daly (Grey Gardens), Virginia Gay (Winners & Losers), Scott Irwin (High Society), Scott Morris (Hairspray), Nicholas Starte (Great Island), Dean Vince (Sondheim on Sondheim), Georgina Walker (The Doctor Blake Mysteries), and Megan Wilding (Tonsils & Tweezers). 300 Sydney Philharmonic Choirs' Festival Chorus will help to transform the 1950s
jazz-inspired score, conducted by SPC's music and artistic director Brett Weymark (Happy Feet). Brendan Hay (Man of La Mancha) will design the presentation.
Dates and Venue:
Saturday7th May 2016, 8pm
Sunday 8th May 2016, 2pm
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
Georgina Walker and Virginia Gay playing sisters Eileen and Ruth.
Maestro Brett Weymark
In May 2016, Jason Langley (Loving Repeating) will direct Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
Wonderful Town is a five-time Tony Award winner (including Best Musical and Best Actress) about two
sisters from Ohio who descend upon New York, finding romance along the
way. Rosalind Russell headlined the original Broadway production in the role of Ruth Sherwood, Edie Adams as Eileen Sherwood, and George Gaynes as Robert Baker.
Joseph Lanner, Austrian Dance Composer and Violinist
Austrian composer Joseph Lanner (1801-1843), is born on April 12, 1801, in Vienna. He is credited, along with Johann Strauss, Sr., in founding the Viennese waltz.
In 1820, he built a full orchestra that performed popular dance music in taverns in Vienna and in the Prater --- from a quintet in which he played the violin and Johann Strauss, Sr., the viola. Later, the duo Strauss Sr. and Lanner split forming rival dance bands - laying the foundations of the classical Viennese waltz.
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (Oct 11, 1884 – March 30, 1949), was born in Goldschmieden near Breslau (Wroclaw), within the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. He was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal. His discovery converted wood into sugar, and coal into petrol products.
He was educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin and Leipzig. His book which was published in 1913, The Use of High Pressure in Chemical Actions, explains his work.
Antonin Dvořák's Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, referred to as "Dumky Trio" is first performed in Prague, 11th April 1891, with the composer at the piano. The piece is a music for piano, violin and cello. Commonly referred to as Dumky, it is among his most well-known compositions.
Dumky, the plural form of dumka, is a term introduced into Slavic languages from the Ukrainian. Dvořák's dumka was completed in February 1891.
Theobald Böhm or Boehm (April 9, 1794 – November 27, 1881) was a German inventor and Bavarian court musician. He is credited for inventing the Western concert flute and its improved fingering system known as the "Boehm System."
Boehm was a virtuoso flautist and composer for the flute. He was born in Munich, Bavaria. He learned goldsmithing through his father's trade. He made his own flute and played in an orchestra at the aged of 18. At 21, he became the first flautist in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra.
Manuel de Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" for piano and orchestra, is first performed in Madrid, Spain.
Spanish composer Manuel de Falla began his work "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" (Spanish: Noches en los Jardines de España) as a set of nocturnes for solo piano in 1909 but later turned turned it into a piece for piano with orchestra. Falla completed it in 1915. He dedicated it to Ricardo Viñes. The first performance was performed on April 9, 1916, at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, with the Sinfonica de Madrid Orchestra conducted by Enrique Fernández Arbós. The piano part was played by José Cubiles.
Watch and enjoy the video of M. de Falla's "Nights in Gardens of Spain" with Daniel Barenboim (piano) and Placido Domingo (conducting), with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
American chemist famous for Calvin Cycle discovery and photosynthesis
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997), was an American chemist famous for his work on photosynthesis and discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham. He contributed in all areas of Chemistry and spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
M. Calvin Brief Profile
The son of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants to the U.S., Melvin Calvin was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. The family settled in Detroit, Michigan, where he attended the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, becoming the school's first chemistry major. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. He also studied at the University of Manchester and University of California, Berkeley. It was in the early 1940s when Calvin began to focus his work on photosynthesis by using radioactive tracers in chemical reactions. During this period in his researches and experiments, his now known Calvin Cycle of plant photosynthesis took fruition.
The Calvin Cycle and Photosynthesis
The Calvin Cycle or the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle - is a system that describes the series of biochemical reactions taking place in the chloroplasts of photosynthetic organisms. Further, the cycle describes a light independent reaction (that is, without any need for visible or ultraviolet light), where stored energy is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into organic compounds. In each stage of the process of "carbon fixation," carbon dioxide is added with a carbon-14 tracer to explain the chemical pathway.
This day, April 7, 1805, Beethoven conducts in Vienna, Austria, the first public performance of his Symphony No.3 in E Flat Major (Op. 55), famously known as Eroica symphony. He began composing the third symphony soon ater his second symphony in D major, completing the actual work in early 1804.
"Eroica" is an Italian term meaning "heroic." It is a landmark musical work that marks the advent of Beethoven's series of unprecedented large scale works of intense emotion and structural strength, referred to as "middle-period."
André Previn, KBE, was a German-born American conductor, pianist and composer, born on April 6, 1929.
Previn was one of the most versatile musicians of the 20th century, and winner of Academy Awards for his film work. He won many Grammy Awards for his recordings.
It is extremely noticeable when police sirens or ambulance emergency vans rise in pitch as they approach us, and then eventually the pitch lowers down when they go off away from us into the distance. This is referred to as Doppler effect. More recently, the Doppler effect took centre-stage as investigators used it to trace the Malaysian aircraft Flight 370's disappearance.
The purpose of this post is to introduce in simple terms the concept of Doppler effect, what it is about and it's effect, and not to quantify intricate scientific formulations of frequency and the relationship of source and observer velocities.
A musical collaboration between Sally Whitwell and Sydney Philharmonia's VOX.
With works by Sal Whitwell, Philip Glass, Arvo Paert and Bjoerk.
PROGRAMME:
Sally Whitwell (b. 1974) A Hundred thousand Birds Echo - soloist Bianca Von Oppell Starlight Steeple - soloist Joanna Forbes Arvo Paert (b. 1935) Morning Star (a capella) Which was the son of (a capella)
Sally Whitwell (b. 1974)
Flying
To Your Shore
Michael Nyman (b. 1944)
Miserere (a capella) - soloists Bianca Von Oppell and Elise Morton
Sally Whitwell (b. 1974)
Going Somewhere (a capella) - soloist Kathleen Morris
She Walks in Beauty
Michael Nyman (b. 1944)
Big My Secret (piano solo)
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Etude for Solo Piano, o 2 (piano solo)
Opening/Heart of Glass (Glass/Blondie)
Massive Attack (formed 1988)
Psyche
Ben Folds (b. 1966)
Effington
Rufus Wainwright (b. 1973)
The Tower of Learning - soloist Remington Owen
Sally Whitwell (b. 1974)
When I was One (a capella)
Aria award-winninng composer and pianist, Sally Whitwell and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' young adult choir, VOX, present a program spanning classic choral repertoire through to pop music, including music by Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Bjoerk, Ben Folds, Massive Attack, and Sally Whitwell.
VOX is Sydney Philharmonia Choirs skilled young adult choir for singers
aged 18-30.These skilled musicians, led by effervescent Music Director,
Elizabeth Scott, deliver a avocal prowess that is both exciting and
inspiring.
Edvard Grieg premieres his Piano Concerto on April 3, 1869, in Copenhagen. The concert was produced by Edmund Neupert, with Holger Simon Paulli conducting. Some sources say that Grieg himself, an excellent pianist, was the soloist, but he was unable to attend the premiere due to another commitments with an orchestra in Oslo (formerly, Christiania) Among those who did attend the premiere were the Danish composer Niels Gade and the Russian pianist Anton Rubinstein.
The concerto in three movements:
Allegro molto moderato (A minor)
Adagio (D flat major)
Allegro moderato molto e marcato (A minor → F major → A major)
When a chemical element is heated to incandescence, it produces its own characteristic lines in the spectrum of light.
As a chemistry student moons ago, I'll never forget the Bunsen burner as a constant laboratory companion in my numerous "flame test" experiments. Bunsen developed the burner in 1855. The test is used to identify the presence of a particular metal by the colour of the flames produced. The burner's non-luminous flame is basically used as it does not interfere with the coloured flame given off by the sample metal being tested.
Bunsen-Kirchhoff Spectroscopy theory and other Discoveries
Together, Bunsen and Kirchhoff developed the first spectroscope, a device used to produce and observe a spectrum. Using their spectroscope, in 1860, they went on to discover two elements: caesium and rubidium. These discoveries ushered a new era in ways used to find new chemical elements.
The first 50 elements discovered (beyond those known since ancient times) were either the products of chemical reactions or were released by electrolysis. From 1860, however, thanks to Burner and Kirchhoff, the search was on for trace elements detectable only with the help of specialized instruments like the spectroscope. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
Kirchhoff also discovered that when heated to incandescence, each chemical element produced its own characteristic lines in the spectrum. For instance, sodium (Na) has a spectrum with two yellow lines, wavelengths about 588 and 589 nanometres. Extending experiments beyond Bunsen and Kirchhoff, later scientists were able to determine the presence of elements, for example, in the sun or stars once similar wavelengths were identified in their spectra.
A die cast toy that puts on happy smiles in children's faces.
Did you know that some toys were originally modeled in size and style to boxes of matches? Leslie Smith and Rodney Smith (not related) were friends during their school days in Middlesex, England. After graduation, they went their separate ways. They found themselves together again in the navy during World War II. After the war, they decided to start their own company.
Lesney Products Launch
In 1947, the two launched Lesney Products, a die-casting business, in an abandoned pub called the Rifleman in East London. It was Rodney who had previous experience in die-casting, the process by which metal or plastic is poured into a mould.
Tomás Luis de Victoria (b. Avila, 1548; d. Madrid, 20 Aug 1611), Spanish Composer
Tomás Luis de Victoria is considered the greatest Spanish Renaissance composer in 16th-century Spain, and one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso. He was a choirboy at Avila Cathedral and when his voice broke he was sent to the Jesuit Collegio Germanico in Rome, where he may have studied under Palestrina. He wrote exclusively Latin Sacred music.
Brief Milestone:
1565. Tomas de Victoria was sent by King Philip II of Spain to prepare for holy orders at the German College in Rome. He probably studied with Giovanni da Palestrina, whom he eventually succeeded as director of music at the Roman Seminary.
1569-1574. Singer and organist at Santa Maria di Monserrato
1571-1576(7). Taught at the Collegio Germanico.
1578-1585. Assisted Philip Neri, joined the Oratory of San Filippo Neri as
chaplain of San Girolamo della Carità.
1578. Met the pious Dowager
Empress Maria, widow of the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian II, and later
became her chaplain.
1584. Empress Maria entered the convent of the Descalzas
Reales in Madrid.
1587-1603. Returned to Spain as chaplain and organist to Philip II's sister, the Dowager Empress Maria (until her death).
1594. He settled in Madrid.
His work
Tomás Luis de Victoria's compositions ranged widely through the liturgy, and some his most popular masses are: Magnificats, psalms and motets, of which he is mainly remembered. His works include 21 masses, 44 motets, several Magnificats, and psalm settings, that are among the finest of the period. He also wrote hymns; four offices for the dead; and music for Holy Week services, including two Passions, the Improperia, and the Lamentations of Jeremiah. His last work was the Requiem (1605) in memory of the empress Maria. Some of his masses & motets:
Missa Ave regina caelorum
Missa pro Victoria
O magnum mysterium
O quam gloriosum
His music is mainly characterised by a religious, sacred ardour.
