classical – Parerga und Paralipomena http://www.michelepasin.org/blog At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded - Wittgenstein Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:18:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 13825966 Musorg : tons of classical music for free http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/2010/09/16/musorg-tons-of-classical-music-for-free/ Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:18:53 +0000 http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/?p=849 Screen shot 2010-09-16 at 22.13.14.png

I found out about this via o’reilly radar’s blog..

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.

The amount of music available is not too bad (and constantly improving):

Albéniz, Isaac Albinoni, Tomaso Anderson, James Bach, Johann Sebastian Beethoven, Ludwig van Berlin, Irving Berlioz, Hector Bettinelli, Bruno Borodin, Alexander Brahms, Johannes Brubeck, Dave Bruch, Max Bryars, Gavin Chopin, Frédéric Clementi, Muzio Copland, Aaron Croce, Giovanni Debussy, Claude Dunn, Aaron Dupre, Marcel Dvořák, Antonín Elgar, Edward Franck, Cesar Glazunov, Alexander Gluck, Adolph Granados, Enrique Grieg, Edvard Handel, George Frideric Haydn, Joseph Holst, Gustav Jr, Johann Strauss Laforge, Agathe Lavallee, Calixa Liszt, Franz Lotti, Antonio Mardirosian, Haig Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Felix Miguez, Leopoldo Monteverdi, Claudio Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mussorgsky, Modest Part, Arvo Pascucci, Massimiliano pergolesi, g.b. Perotinus, Magister Premrl, Stanko Prokofiev, Sergei Purcell, Henry Rachmaninoff, Sergei Ravel, Maurice Richards, Goff Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Root, George F. Rossini, Gioachino Russell, Alexander Saint-Saëns, Camille Satie, Erik Scarlatti, Domenico etc….

Also, they have a growing collection of sheet music, eg:

]]> 849 Bernstein’s Mass at Royal Festival Hall http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/2010/07/13/bernsteins-mass-at-royal-festical-hall/ Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:55:28 +0000 http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/?p=799 Picture 1.png

The other day I went to a concert at the Southbank Centre in London, as part of the Leonard Bernstein season. Its the Mass by Leonard Bernstein. A bit hard to follow, maybe because of the mix of latin and english in the lyrics, but the musics and the theatrical bits were quite entertaining. (wikipedia link):

MASS (formally, “MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers”) is a musical theatre work composed by Leonard Bernstein. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy, it premiered on September 8, 1971, conducted by Maurice Peress.[1] The performance was part of the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.[2] Mass premiered in Europe in 1973, with John Mauceri conducting the Yale Symphony Orchestra in Vienna.[3]

Originally, Bernstein had intended to compose a traditional Mass, but instead decided on a more innovative form. The work is based on the Tridentine Mass of the Roman Catholic Church. Although the liturgical passages are sung in Latin, Mass also includes additional texts in English written by Bernstein, Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz, and Paul Simon (who wrote the first quatrain of the trope “Half of the People”). The work is intended to be staged theatrically, but it has also been performed in a standard concert setting.

Reviews: [Reuters] [Guardian] [Independent]

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