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Music For A While
Wednesday July 20th, 2022 with David Cavlovic
The Young Glenn Gould

The Eaton Auditorium, where the Glenn Gould recording sessions heard today took place, was opened in the "upper scale" Eaton's College Street Department store at the corner of College and Yonge in Toronto in 1930. Located on the seventh floor it was, and is, one of Toronto's best acoustic spaces. When Eaton's sold the building in 1977 the original purchasers of the property wanted to convert the auditorium into office space. Fortunately they were prevented from doing so as the gorgeous art-deco building was declared a heritage site. Unfortunately, the auditorium was sealed up and left to decay until it was restored in 2003 and rechristened The Carlu, named after the French architect Jacques Carlu who designed the original building. That's a very fitting tribute. BTW, violinist Albert Pratz had as one of his students Jack Benny! Don't be fooled by Benny's comedy shtick as a bad violinist. You have to be a good violinist to play as badly as that!
Camille Saint-Saëns: La Princesse Jaune (Overture)
Utah Symphony; Joseph Silverstein, conductor - Roman Carnival. The World's Great Overtures - Pro Arte Audio+
Alban Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1908)
Glenn Gould, piano - The Young Glenn Gould - Fanfare Canadian
Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Harry Glickman: Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5
Albert Pratz, violin; Glenn Gould, piano - The Young Glenn Gould - Fanfare Canadian
I. March. Allegretto
II. Waltz. Andantino
III. Polka. Allegretto
Sergei Taneyev, arr. Arthur Hartmann: Poem, Op 26, No. 1: The Birth of the Harp
Albert Pratz, violin; Glenn Gould, piano - The Young Glenn Gould - Fanfare Canadian
Serge Prokofiev, arr. Mikhail Fichtenholz: Cinderella, Op. 87, Act I, No. 16: The Winter Fairy
Albert Pratz, violin; Glenn Gould, piano - The Young Glenn Gould - Fanfare Canadian
Eric Coates: March from the film The Dam Busters
Concert Orchestra conducted by Eric Coates - It's the 50's - Music Club
Virgil Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra; Howard Hanson, conductor - Hanson conducts McPhee, Sessions, Thomson - Mercury Living Presence
I. Introduction and Allegro
II. Andante cantabile
III. Allegretto
IV. Allegro
Interactive CKCU
Arghhh matey!
For that was a jolly good episode. Learned a new word, ‘hymnody’. The Dam Busters piece was a nice bit of Water Music for this hot weather.

8:37 PM, July 20th, 2022