William Henry Fry Vidéos
compositeur ou compositrice, journaliste, critique de musique
Commémorations 2024 (Décès: William Henry Fry)
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2024-05-08
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Santa Claus - A Christmas Symphony by William Fry set for clarinet quartet by John Gibson. William Henry Fry was an American composer and music critic who was one of the few American composers writing large works for orchestra at the time of his Santa Claus piece in 1853. He was also one of the first to use a saxophone in a symphony orchestra, the instrument having been invented just a few years previously. This setting for clarinet quartet is of selections from the complete work and includes substantial cadenzas and solos for 1st clarinet along with a jolly tune you will find yourself whistling! All parts in this recording were performed by John Gibson
William Henry Fry Royal Scottish National Orchestra 1854
One of the earliest proponents of music composed within the United States, William Henry Fry was the first to produce large scale symphonic works in his the nation. He was also the first music critic to be published in a major periodical. The Niagara Symphony was composed in 1854 for P. T. Barnum's "Monster Concert". The single-movement work (more like a tone poem) is a picturesque realization of the eponymous landmark. Performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Conducted by Tony Rowe Available on the Naxos label: (http•••) Photograph "Niagara Sunset" by Wolfgang Staudt: (http•••)
Perhaps one of the only completed piano pieces by William Henry Fry, Adieu was composed in 1855. The piece is unpublished, and the manuscript wasn't discovered until the 1930s. Performed by Ivan Davis I highly recommend the CD, which contains a number of interesting pieces composed in America during the 19th century. Besides the fine music, the liner notes are a value in and of themselves.
George Frederick Bristow Ole Bull Jenny Lind Jullien William Henry Fry Beethoven Mendelssohn Chopin John Field Schubert Detroit Symphony Orchestra 1843 1848 1852 1853 1856 1858 1859 1879 1893
Hello everyone! Here is a great piece of music. Remarkable perhaps because it was composed by an American in 1858, George Frederick Bristow. This just might be the most important American contribution to music in the middle of the nineteenth century. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Neeme Jarvi From the linear notes: The New York Philharmonic celebrated its 150th anniversary recently, but among all the festivities, there was little mention of George Bristow. He would not have been surprised, for in the midst of his tenure as a member of the first violin section of the Philharmonic, from 1843 to 1879, he resigned for a season in protest over that orchestra's neglect of American composers. Bristow was born into a musical family - his father was a conductor, composer and clarinetist who had emigrated from England. The song's own early studies took place at home, but as his skills developed he was given over to other teachers: W. Musgriff for cello, and perhaps the renowned Ole Bull for violin (thought the record here is more doubtful). By the age of thirteen, the young Bristow was accomplished enough to play in the orchestra at the Olympic Theater in New York; five years later, he joined the Philharmonic at its founding. He was much in demand as a string player: he was the concertmaster of the orchestra that accompanied Jenny Lind when P.T. Barnum brought her to America; and in 1853-54, when he was on the outs with the Philharmonic, he led the first violin section of the orchestra assembled for the American tour by the French conductor Louis Jullien. From the first, he was a supporter of the native school of American music., he founded the American Musical Fund Society, a musicians' protective organization, in 1852, the American Music Association in 1856, and the Metropolitan Music Association in 1859. Along with the critic William Henry Fry, of the New York Tribune, Bristow became a passionate advocate for home-grown music, to which he contributed a number of his own works. Among his contributions to Americana were his opera Rip van winkle, his overture Columbus, and his Niagara Symphony. Jullien praised his String Quartet as a "truly classical work," but during the course of his career he moved increasingly in a more Romantic direction. He has five symphonies to his credit, the first a Mendelssohnian Sinfonia in E flat from 1848, the last the Niagara Symphony of 1893, in which, following the lead of Beethoven, he joined solo voices, chorus and orchestra. The Symphony in F sharp Minor was the third in the series, dating from 1858. In form, Bristow followed the classical model of Mendelssohn, but the spirit here is more Schumannesque. The first and last movements are fully worked out, not departing a hairsbreadth from textbook models, but showing striking individuality in their orchestration, especially in the elaborate part for the harp. The intervening movements are fancifully titled, but less unconventional than their names would indicate. The second movement Nocturne owes nothing to the models of Chopin or John Field: it is a hymnic slow movement that might well have been titled Intermezzo or Romance. 'The Butterfly's Frolic' is a Bristow's subtitles for his Scherzo, a movement that hovers between a delicacy of Mendelssohn and the heartiness of Schubert.
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