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I had fallen a couple of days behind in my listening of this book, and listened to yesterday‘s piece today

That felt a little serendipitous. I saw Moonrise Kingdom directed by Wes Anderson yesterday. Benjamin Britten is mentioned several times and when the music is shown at the end, several of his pieces had been used. Life works in mysterious ways sometimes

I can honestly say this is the first string quartet with didgeridoo I‘ve ever heard. And the first Sculthorpe. Not really good for “background music at work” today, what with the barking and all. 😀

Today‘s piece from Year of Wonder was both mesmerizing & haunting.

https://youtu.be/KVZcW0Wt2wY

Loved the Kyrie this morning! Although I can‘t say the same for Ockeghem‘s hat. 😂 @AnnCecilie @kspenmoll

Today is St.David‘s Day in Wales,a day of traditional celebration. This Welch song was first preserved orally (music) . In 1784 it was written down in sheet music & in the last half of the 19th c. Lyrics were added by J.Hughes. It‘s hauntingly beautiful, transcends time as all parents of all specious watch their children thru the night to keep them safe. https://web.archive.org/web/20110727053819/https://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/caneuon...

This morning‘s piece is from an album,The Blue Notebooks, by Max Richter, of protest against the invasion of Iraq, a “meditation in violence” & at the general “ futility” of war. #resistance
Thank you ever so much @AnneCecilie @Lcsmcat for posting about this book.

https://youtu.be/ZI-s-FEvNG4

Another great entry today. I love how she‘s including composers writing from movies

When it comes to Morricone Burton-Bell writes:
“His scores invariably make a film, as the directors he works with know all too well. Sergio Leone, for example (the director with whose ‘spaghetti western‘ films Morricone‘s music is synonymous), only began shooting Once Upon a Time in the West after Morricone had written his magnificent score. The music came first.

I‘ve been looking forward to this piece the entire year. I loved this 2 yrs ago when I first listened to this music in this book. I didn‘t quite blow me away the same way now, but still amazing.

And if you need a reason to listen this is what Burton-Hill writes:
“This sonata, by the way, is the piece used by the scientists who investigated the phenomenon known, for shorthand, as the ‘Mozart effect‘. They found that listening to this music for

My edition seems to want to shed its pages - and it‘s only February. How are you managing a reread @AnnCecilie ?

https://open.spotify.com/track/2cMcZgAIZS0ZafdW1MDYKU?si=qO2rbsPCSg2DiMb8QNxifg

Just leaving this here, for anyone who needs it today.

This has become our morning routine. This morning (Steve Reich) was the first time I didn‘t want to listen to multiple recordings of the say‘s selection. Oh well, tomorrow is Shubert. @AnnCecilie

I have to thank @Librarybelle for putting this on my radar. When Jess posted about this series I thought this is exactly what I want for 2025. I ran out on New Year‘s Eve and bought this one and am so glad I did. I look so forward daily to each piece. Highly recommend. Thanks, Jess!!

I‘m excited to start this yearlong adventure in classical music. Thank you, @Librarybelle for putting it on my radar!

Thank you @Librarybelle for putting this book on my radar!! I am so glad I bought it. I've played piano since I was 5, and violin since I was 7. I've always loved classical music, and I'm really looking forward to reading this book throughout the year! I'm curious to see if my favorites are included, and if so, which ones. 🎶

To say I loved my yearlong journey into classical music through this book is an understatement. Every night, I read the entry for the day and followed it up with the selected piece on Spotify. I‘m a violinist (though a very out of practice violinist), and classical music was such a constant for me growing up. I learned about composers I‘ve never heard of, listened to some favorite pieces, and just enjoyed the experience. I highly recommend this.

The first #BookReport of the year and it‘s really early. But there‘s a reason for that, I‘ve read all the library books and even returned some already.

That means that All the Colors of Life, Simple Passion, Abid Raja‘s memoir and The Other Side of the Bridge are all read.

I‘m still reading The Christmas Chronicles according to its dates.

I‘ve started reading and listening to a Year of Wonder. Since this is a yearly challenge, it won‘t show

My best friend got me the greatest Christmas gift for both someone who took piano lessons for over a decade and for someone who loves music. I‘m absolutely enjoying this day by day calendar with a new classic song and composer each day. It‘s also nice that I can access the playlist for the text on Apple Music.

Started this yesterday as I love classical music but I‘m certainly no expert and this will give me something new to listen to every day as well as a description of each piece. A lovely way to start each day!

The first #WeeklyForecast of the year

I‘ll continue The Christmas Chronicles.

I‘ll start a year long reading challenge of reading and listening to classical music in A Year of Wonder. I saw Simon Savidge doing this over on SavidgeReads last year. Order the book, started and for no apparent reason stopped listening so giving it another go this year from day 1.

For the last couple of years All the Colors of Life has been the first book I read

So, this book describes a piece of classical music each day of the year, and I‘ve been following along with YouTube videos as a kind of morning meditation… and this was the album cover showcased on the video today 😂 So much like a romance novel cover! So dramatic! Y‘all, I just couldn‘t do it for a whole 8 min 🤪

If you are looking to add a nice daily ritual in the new year, highly recommend. Husband and I really enjoyed. We were already quite familiar with classical music and still found some new (to us) favorites.

Merry Christmas to all! Finishing off my year of Music with Clemency Burton-Hill I highly recommend this as a way to introduce yourself to new music- or revisit old favorites- 365 days of Wonder. Blessings to all!

I'm still a bit behind in the "keeping up with things" department. But I'm reading this book with daily pages on classical music this year. I'm behind, but today I listened to this beautiful, melancholy piece and wanted to share it with you.

Burton-Hill says, "Here is Schumann, getting his private anguish down on paper...saving himself, yes, but in the process of the music being received by us...and processed and felt and loved, saving us too."

2019 resolution- I end my day with a reading and classical piece highlighted in this day book of classical music. Tonight it is “Va tacito e nascosto” from Guilio Cesare by Handel for the Ides of March. Listening to Julius Caesar (from Act 1 of Handel‘s opera)- He who intends evil will not wish to show the deceit in his heart. I recommend this book as a lovely way to close out the day.🎼🎻🎷

I'm playing catch-up on my daily reading in Year of Wonder right now, and one of the composers featured is Florence Price! Perfect for the #24B4Monday Black History Month theme. She was an amazing musical pioneer--an African-American single mother who beat all the odds to make beautiful music that interwove classical, blues, and spiritual styles. It's slow-going, but I'm 3 hours in!
@TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65

Wow!

First book finished for #readathon (I only had about 150p left). This is a really solid one-piece-per-day devotional, if you will, designed to dive deep into the classical music catalogue. A few favorites are missing (Rhapsody in Blue, where are you?? Enigma Variations? Any ballet music?) but there were a lot of new-to-me composers to explore (starting right away in January with Hildegard von Bingen). This is a very consciously inclusive list.