Winchester Orchestra and guest conductor Gabriel Sakakeeny, present Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. He never dreamt that he would be visiting the country where he would live until his death. He accepted the offer only because he hoped that his fee would allow him to buy an automobile. From writings by Peter Laki.
"I wrote it for elephants," Rachmaninoff told Vladimir Horowitz, according to Horowitz, after hearing the younger pianist storm through his 3rd Piano Concerto, to his utter amazement ('He swallowed it whole!')." Of course, in Rachmaninoff's Russian the word for elephant means weightiness so he meant 'I wrote it for heavyweights' or better, 'I wrote it for champs.'" from writings by A. Gavrylyukl.
One champ could be acclaimed pianist Tamami Honma "Make no mistake Honma is a superb player... remarkably eloquent...one appreciates immediately how technically able and alert she is...she catches its intensity to perfection." Gramophone
Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan. The hypnotic tone poem "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan" came to American composer Griffes in a dream. And it maintains that dreamy, evocative quality. - NPR "...rapturously received by the audience and with glowing notices from the critics. It is one of a very few short orchestral pieces by the composer, who died at age 36...unmistakably the work of an artist who could have achieved exceptionally important status in American musical history." -Adapted from writings by J. Stevenson
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") Splashes of heroic, swashbuckling melodies are present throughout and appears at the end of the Ridley Scott Film, Alien, just as the monster gets blasted away into outer space.) Adapted from writings by B. Hembd.
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"I wrote it for elephants," Rachmaninoff told Vladimir Horowitz, according to Horowitz, after hearing the younger pianist storm through his 3rd Piano Concerto, to his utter amazement ('He swallowed it whole!')." Of course, in Rachmaninoff's Russian the word for elephant means weightiness so he meant 'I wrote it for heavyweights' or better, 'I wrote it for champs.'" from writings by A. Gavrylyukl.
One champ could be acclaimed pianist Tamami Honma "Make no mistake Honma is a superb player... remarkably eloquent...one appreciates immediately how technically able and alert she is...she catches its intensity to perfection." Gramophone
Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan. The hypnotic tone poem "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan" came to American composer Griffes in a dream. And it maintains that dreamy, evocative quality. - NPR "...rapturously received by the audience and with glowing notices from the critics. It is one of a very few short orchestral pieces by the composer, who died at age 36...unmistakably the work of an artist who could have achieved exceptionally important status in American musical history." -Adapted from writings by J. Stevenson
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") Splashes of heroic, swashbuckling melodies are present throughout and appears at the end of the Ridley Scott Film, Alien, just as the monster gets blasted away into outer space.) Adapted from writings by B. Hembd.
Winchester Orchestra and guest conductor Gabriel Sakakeeny, present Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. He never dreamt that he would be visiting the country where he would live until his death. He accepted the offer only because he hoped that his fee would allow him to buy an automobile. From writings by Peter Laki.
"I wrote it for elephants," Rachmaninoff told Vladimir Horowitz, according to Horowitz, after hearing the younger pianist storm through his 3rd Piano Concerto, to his utter amazement ('He swallowed it whole!')." Of course, in Rachmaninoff's Russian the word for elephant means weightiness so he meant 'I wrote it for heavyweights' or better, 'I wrote it for champs.'" from writings by A. Gavrylyukl.
One champ could be acclaimed pianist Tamami Honma "Make no mistake Honma is a superb player... remarkably eloquent...one appreciates immediately how technically able and alert she is...she catches its intensity to perfection." Gramophone
Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan. The hypnotic tone poem "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan" came to American composer Griffes in a dream. And it maintains that dreamy, evocative quality. - NPR "...rapturously received by the audience and with glowing notices from the critics. It is one of a very few short orchestral pieces by the composer, who died at age 36...unmistakably the work of an artist who could have achieved exceptionally important status in American musical history." -Adapted from writings by J. Stevenson
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") Splashes of heroic, swashbuckling melodies are present throughout and appears at the end of the Ridley Scott Film, Alien, just as the monster gets blasted away into outer space.) Adapted from writings by B. Hembd.
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"I wrote it for elephants," Rachmaninoff told Vladimir Horowitz, according to Horowitz, after hearing the younger pianist storm through his 3rd Piano Concerto, to his utter amazement ('He swallowed it whole!')." Of course, in Rachmaninoff's Russian the word for elephant means weightiness so he meant 'I wrote it for heavyweights' or better, 'I wrote it for champs.'" from writings by A. Gavrylyukl.
One champ could be acclaimed pianist Tamami Honma "Make no mistake Honma is a superb player... remarkably eloquent...one appreciates immediately how technically able and alert she is...she catches its intensity to perfection." Gramophone
Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan. The hypnotic tone poem "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan" came to American composer Griffes in a dream. And it maintains that dreamy, evocative quality. - NPR "...rapturously received by the audience and with glowing notices from the critics. It is one of a very few short orchestral pieces by the composer, who died at age 36...unmistakably the work of an artist who could have achieved exceptionally important status in American musical history." -Adapted from writings by J. Stevenson
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") Splashes of heroic, swashbuckling melodies are present throughout and appears at the end of the Ridley Scott Film, Alien, just as the monster gets blasted away into outer space.) Adapted from writings by B. Hembd.
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