Sound Recordings
Five Books for Children
Bernstein, Margery. (1999) Stop that noise! New York: Millbrook Press.
Best suited for young children, this book underlines how music is not something one should be intimidated when 'making' -- rather musi Continue Reading...
It is cut down, and its death signals the end of Brigida's marriage. The tree kept the harsh reality away. Without the tree (and the illusion) there is no way she stay married to Luis. The tree represented a mental place of refuge which allowed her Continue Reading...
Stars today do not have the huge voices of the past. Even Wagnerian sopranos have more delicate tones, and schools try to produce these types of students, because of the demands of the industry.
Midgett also points a finger at the schooling of oper Continue Reading...
It reminds the listener of the need to chase these feelings away with comforting thoughts. The one assumption our own age shares with Tchaikovsky's Romantic Age, perhaps, is the importance of the individual and the need to change's one's emotional s Continue Reading...
Apparantely, Haydn made a huge amount of money on this piece, causing him to comment, "a thing possible only in England." The Vivaldi Concerto, it turns out, can be played as a Lute or Guitar Concerto, with the lute being a bit more popular in Court Continue Reading...