Music For a While
Music For a While is an English-speaking podcast specialized in the field of classical music and opera. As such, Music For a While is a podcast selected by soclassiq, like Podium Time or SCMS: Classical Conversation Podcast and many others. The oldest episode indexed by soclassiq is dated 2019-07-03. Since then, a total of 37 episodes have been recorded and broadcast by Music For a While.
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With 5 articles published in the last 90 days, Music For a While is currently a not very active podcast. "Not very active" does not mean that Music For a While is less interesting than another more prolific source. Each media follows a specific editorial line, recording and broadcasting according to its own rhythm.
This editorial activity is slowing down compared to the previous period.
The last episode in Music For a While, "Entering into heaven", is dated 2021-01-18. By 2020, this podcast had published 24 episodes.
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2021-01-18 17:39:47
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In 1913, Vachel Lindsay wrote "General William Booth Enters into Heaven." It speaks of the founder of the Salvation Army. Peggy Noonan cited this poem in a recent column. In 1914, Charles Ives set the poem to music. You will hear it in this episode. Also a Beatles concerto (yes), a rag by an early Metropolitan Opera soprano (yes), some …
2020-12-23 22:01:39
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Jay has an assortment for you--some Bach, some jazz, some Russian, some French, a spiritual . . . It all ends with a thrilling "First Nowell." Bach, "Jauchzet, frohlocket," Christmas Oratorio Berlin, "White Christmas" Bach, "Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen," Christmas Oratorio Gauntlett, "Once in Royal David's City" Trad., "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" Chesnokov, "Gabriel Appeared" Trad., "Il est né, le divin …
2020-12-23 22:01:39
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Jay has an assortment for you--some Bach, some jazz, some Russian, some French, a spiritual . . . It all ends with a thrilling "First Nowell." Bach, "Jauchzet, frohlocket," Christmas Oratorio Berlin, "White Christmas" Bach, "Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen," Christmas Oratorio Gauntlett, "Once in Royal David's City" Trad., "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" Chesnokov, "Gabriel Appeared" Trad., "Il est né, le divin …
2020-12-18 00:39:33
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This episode is a real smorgasbord--works, mainly short, by Domenico Scarlatti, Rachmaninoff, Duparc, Stravinsky, Jonathan Dove, and Jerome Kern, among others. A tasty, diverse spread. You may well want it all. Scarlatti, D., Sonata in G, K. 14 Rachmaninoff, Andante, Cello Sonata Duparc, Lento, Cello Sonata Lachenmann, "Five Variations on a Theme by Franz Schubert" Stravinsky, Piece for Solo Clarinet …
2020-11-13 17:14:47
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In honor of the recent "blue moon," Jay plays four songs about the moon--two classical, two popular. He also has some Quincy Jones, some Cannibal Corpse (yup), some Villa-Lobos, and some Bruckner. Complain if you will, but not about a lack of variety. Rodgers & Hart, "Blue Moon" Bellini, "Vaga luna, che inargenti" Dvořák, "Song to the Moon," from "Rusalka" …
2020-10-14 21:10:04
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That's what Dido sings in Purcell's opera, about her and Aeneas: "Remember me!" Jay is reminded of this when filling out forms on the Internet. In this episode, he plays Dido, plus Charlie Parker, Franz Schmidt, Leonard Bernstein, Lyle Lovett, and others. An unusually eclectic show--which also brings the Op. 1 by a young woman from Las Vegas: a "quarantine …
2020-10-01 23:02:04
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That's a lot to promise in one humble music podcast, isn't it? Greatness, consolation, and transcendence? But it is truth in advertising. Handel, "Dopo notte atra e funesta," from Handel's "Ariodante" Pärt, "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten" Mozart, Clarinet Concerto Trad., "Shenandoah" Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 Bach, "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein," from …
2020-09-23 16:25:17
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Mozart wrote his "Orphanage Mass" when he was twelve. Pretty good. Mendelssohn wrote his Octet in E flat when he was sixteen. Really good. Jay provides excerpts from these works, and also presents Chopin and Argerich, Strauss and Davidsen, and more. As the episode begins with Mozart, it ends with Mozart: a heavenly soprano aria from some vespers. You could …
2020-09-04 16:50:11
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That is a line from a hymn. Jay says it must apply to Bach's Cello Suites, which players of that instrument get to live with all life long -- through good times and (maybe most important) bad. Of course, all of the pieces on this program may be called "great companions": from the pens of composers famous and obscure. An …
2020-08-24 18:01:47
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Jay begins with a gigue, a jig, by Leclair. We also have Haydn, Brahms, and Penderecki. (The Brahms is played by Leon Fleisher, the great American pianist who has died in recent days.) There are also two items from the American Songbook -- one of them sung by Jack Teagarden, the other by Frank Sinatra. This episode ends with a …