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Dr. Dick's "Mendelssohn's World": The Octet: 3rd & 4th Movements
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Dr Dick's "Mendelssohn's World". A blog posting background information and resource material for teachers and students for an education outreach program of the West Branch Music Festival at the Harrisburg School District's John Harris High School in September 2009 - Dick Strawser, Educational Consultant. Saturday, September 5, 2009. The Octet: 3rd and 4th Movements. Here is the second half of Mendelssohn's Octet which he wrote in 1825 when he was 16 years old. Posted by Dick Strawser. Mendelssohn and Sha...
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Dr. Dick's "Mendelssohn's World": Study Questions #7: Listening to Music
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Dr Dick's "Mendelssohn's World". A blog posting background information and resource material for teachers and students for an education outreach program of the West Branch Music Festival at the Harrisburg School District's John Harris High School in September 2009 - Dick Strawser, Educational Consultant. Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Study Questions #7: Listening to Music. Here are the "Study Questions" Ms. Robbins wrote up for Mendelssohn’s World. Please observe carefully at the concert. 5 - In what ways...
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Dr. Dick's "Mendelssohn's World": Music as a Language: Putting it Together, Note by Note
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Dr Dick's "Mendelssohn's World". A blog posting background information and resource material for teachers and students for an education outreach program of the West Branch Music Festival at the Harrisburg School District's John Harris High School in September 2009 - Dick Strawser, Educational Consultant. Friday, September 11, 2009. Music as a Language: Putting it Together, Note by Note. If people know the story of Shakespeare's “ A Midsummer Night's Dream. If people can appreciate the Octet for Strings, ...
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Dr. Dick's "Mendelssohn's World": Photos from the West Branch Music Festival
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Dr Dick's "Mendelssohn's World". A blog posting background information and resource material for teachers and students for an education outreach program of the West Branch Music Festival at the Harrisburg School District's John Harris High School in September 2009 - Dick Strawser, Educational Consultant. Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Photos from the West Branch Music Festival. Located on the West Branch of the Delaware River in New York State. It's the "Gateway to the Catskills.". Here's a shot of all eig...
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Dr. Dick's "Mendelssohn's World": Technical Difficulties beyond a Luddite's Control
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Dr Dick's "Mendelssohn's World". A blog posting background information and resource material for teachers and students for an education outreach program of the West Branch Music Festival at the Harrisburg School District's John Harris High School in September 2009 - Dick Strawser, Educational Consultant. Friday, September 11, 2009. Technical Difficulties beyond a Luddite's Control. As it happens (so to speak), one can only count on so many bugs in any given system. Well, on Wednesday, I found out even th...
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Dr. Dick's "Mendelssohn's World": Mendelssohn & Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Overture)
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Dr Dick's "Mendelssohn's World". A blog posting background information and resource material for teachers and students for an education outreach program of the West Branch Music Festival at the Harrisburg School District's John Harris High School in September 2009 - Dick Strawser, Educational Consultant. Sunday, September 6, 2009. Mendelssohn and Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Overture). One summer, when Mendelssohn was 17, he was reading Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It ope...
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Thoughts On a Train: The Lost Chord: Overture
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Thoughts On a Train. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson. Thursday, September 04, 2014. The Lost Chord: Overture. A classical music appreciation comedy thriller. By Richard Alan Strawser. Yes – it's not just how to suffer. 8211; someone in the audience laughed – "the artist's traditional fate since time began, right? There was more than the agony of hearing your music badly performed or the self-mortification of reading bad rev...
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Thoughts On a Train: The Lost Chord: Chapters 60 & 61
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Thoughts On a Train. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson. Monday, March 30, 2015. The Lost Chord: Chapters 60 and 61. A classical music appreciation comedy thriller by Richard Alan Strawser: you can read it from the beginning, here. In the previous installment. It would have made a powerful operatic duet of the highest order, Widor examining the face of his son, a face so like his own, alas unsoftened by his Belovèd's beauty.
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Thoughts On a Train: The Lost Chord: Act III, Chapter 33 (Part 1)
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Thoughts On a Train. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson. Monday, January 12, 2015. The Lost Chord: Act III, Chapter 33 (Part 1). You can read it from the beginning, here. In the previous installment. He and why is he after what now turns out to be a statue of Beethoven? Being the 2nd installment of Master Harrison Harty's Journal, Summer of 1880. Which, for some reason, suddenly continues in code). Once everyone settled down t...
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Thoughts On a Train: The Doomsday Symphony: On the Installment Plan
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Thoughts On a Train. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson. Thursday, April 26, 2012. The Doomsday Symphony: On the Installment Plan. It could mean the end of Classical Music as we know it and, if Mahler's latest symphony makes it back for its world premiere on December 21st, 2012, it could just be the end of the world, period. You can read the first installment here. The read-through is interrupted when one of the guests, a once...
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