One fact I found out only this past weekend (after I had packaged this show, and therefore am too lazy to go back into it and edit my script to rerecord, ANYWAYS!....) is a wonderfully serendipitous connection between composers Parisa Sabet and John Weinzweig. Upon graduating from the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, with a degree in composition, Sabet was awarded the John Weinzweig Graduate Scholarship. Well deserved!
I have a copy of the broadcast recording of the premiere in 1949 of Weinzweig's complete Red Ear of Corn (never mind how I got it!....well, it's nowhere near as nefarious or exciting a story. Actually it was for a potential project, OK?!?). I will have to listen to it again (it's been a while), and might consider playing it at some time. Probably the first time it will have been heard in over 70 years if I do.
Yes, that was snow on the ground you saw this past weekend. It's Ottawa.
| Georg Philipp Telemann: Recorder Suite in A Minor, TWV 55:a2 Clas Pehrsson, recorder; Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble - Recorder Concerti - BIS |
| I. Ouverture
II. Les Plaisirs III. Air à l’Italien IV. Menuet I/II V. Rejouissance VI. Passepied I/II VII. Polonaise |
| Parisa Sabet: The Seville Orange Tree Laurel Swindon, flute; Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano - a Cup of Sins. Parisa Sabet - Redshift Records 
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| John Weinzweig: Red Ear of Corn – Ballet Suite (1949) National Arts Centre Orchestra / L’Orchestre du Centre National Des Arts; Mario Bernardi, conductor - John Weinzweig: Wine of Peace. An 85th Birthday Retrospective - Furiant Records
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| I. Tribal Dance
II. Ceremonial Dance III. Barn Dance |
| Bedřich Smetana: České tance Antonín Kubálek, piano - Smetana: The Complete Czech Dances. Kubálek, piano - Dorian Recordings
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| I. 4 Polky:
F-sharp Minor A Minor F Major B-flat major II. Furiant Slepićka Oves Medvěd Cibulićka Dupák Hulán Obkročák Sousedská Skočna / Skočrst |
| Alexander Borodin: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor (orch. by Alexander Glazunov) Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu; Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductor - Borodin: Symphonies 1, 2 and 3 - Naxos |
| I. Moderato assai
II. Vivo |
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A beautiful Sunday morning listen. Freezing down here as well.
7:16 PM, November 20th, 2022