PBS snipped a huge chunk out of the concert. Here’s the entire thing, in a Spanish broadcast with an intermission feature. You’re welcome.
Great moments in film music: ‘La La Land’
Just a small sample from the spectacular new American musical, “La La Land.” By the way, the film was shot in CinemaScope using the same lenses — the exact same lenses — they used to shoot “Ben-Hur” in the late ’50s.
Music by Justin Hurwitz.
Correction: My cinematographer brother-in-law informs me that the “Ben-Hur” lenses were used on “Rogue One” not “La La Land.” My error. “La La Land was shot with regular Panavision 2X anamorphic lenses, the same format as CinemaScope originally, a 2X horizontally squeezed image onto the 4-perf 35mm film frame,” my brother-in-law says. He would know.
New Year’s concert from Vienna: The program and serving suggestion
As a good citizen in the world of music, I feel it is incumbent to warn you that Gustavo Dudamel will be conducting the New Year’s concert from Vienna this year, leading the Vienna Philharmonic in the program listed below (and encores). I am as sure as I can be of anything that this will be a knockout event. Here in Southern California the concert will air at 7:30 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 1) on KOCE (PBS). Serving suggestion: Traditionally, the broadcast goes quite well with a bottle of good champagne.
Franz Lehár
Nechledil Marsch aus der Operette Wiener Frauen
Émile
Les Patineurs. Walzer, op. 183
Johann Strauss, Jr.
S’ gibt nur a Kaiserstadt,s’ gibt nur a Wien. Polka, op. 291
Josef Strauss
Winterlust. Polka (schnell), op. 121
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Mephistos Höllenrufe. Walzer, op. 101
So ängstlich sind wir nicht! Schnell-Polka, op. 413
— Pause —
Franz von Suppé
Ouvertüre zu Pique Dame
Carl Michael Ziehrer
Hereinspaziert! Walzer aus der Operette „Der Schätzmeister“, op. 518
Otto Nicolai
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Moon Choir
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Pepita-Polka, op. 138
Rotunde-Quadrille, op. 360
Die Extravaganten. Walzer, op. 205
Johann Strauss, sen.
Indianer-Galopp. op. 111
Josef Strauss
Die Nasswalderin. Polka mazur,op. 267
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Auf zum Tanze! Polka schnell, op. 436
Tausend und eine Nacht. Walzer nach Motiven der Operette “Indigo”
Tik-Tak. Polka schnell, op. 365
Horn master class: ‘Till Eulenspiegel’
There are a series of these master classes on YouTube, with members of the Berlin Philharmonic helping younger players in key orchestral excerpts. This one concentrating on the first few bars of Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegel,” and the famous and tricky horn solo therein, is particularly interesting because it shows the meticulous attention to detail that great orchestral musicians bring to the parts they play. Both of these horn players here are very good, by the way, but the Berlin’s Stefan de Level Jezierski is something else, as you will no doubt hear.
Video: Pierre Monteux conducts the Chicago Symphony
He was 86 years old in 1961, the year this was taped. Economical but very communicative beat. His eyes are also wonderfully expressive here.
1. Beethoven: Symphony No.8
2. Wagner: ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ Prelude to Act 3
3. Berlioz: ‘Roman Carnival’ Overture
Audio: March from ‘The Nutcracker’
Stewart Goodyear, piano.
Members of L.A. Phil play ‘Sleigh Ride’ by Leroy Anderson
In some browsers you can watch this in 360 degrees. Either way, it’s fun.
Beethoven, Pershing Square, Los Angeles
Beethoven statue in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, Dec. 14, 2016.
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