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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Wolfe Fire in My Mouth

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  • August 21, 2020August 21, 2020
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The final Honorable Mention goes to Julia Wolfe for her recent composition, Fire in My Mouth, premiered at the New York Philharmonic in January 2019. Julia Wolfe is a composer

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

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  • August 21, 2020August 21, 2020
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Mussorgsky appears one last time on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with an honorable mention for his Pictures at an Exhibition suite for piano. Most people know this suite from

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Glass Anthem Pt. 2

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  • August 20, 2020August 20, 2020
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I’m giving an honorable mention to Philip Glass for Anthem Part 2, from his film score Powaqqatsi, which was released back in 1988. But that is not where I know

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Weber Der Freischütz

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  • August 19, 2020August 19, 2020
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I’m giving an honorable mention to Carl Maria von Weber for his great opera, Der Freischütz, premiered in 1821. Weber’s operas opened the path for Germanic Romantic opera. I hadn’t

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Coleman Lonely Woman

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  • August 18, 2020August 18, 2020
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1959 was a magnificent year for music, particularly jazz. I’ve noted a few of these compositions here to this point. Miles Davis with his album Kind of Blue and his

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #11 Dvorak Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22

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  • August 17, 2020August 17, 2020
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Coming in at #11 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is Antonin Dvorak with his lovely, delightful Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22, which he composed in 1875

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

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  • August 15, 2020August 15, 2020
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I am giving an honorable mention to Beethoven for his final symphony, the 9th in D minor. It used to be at the top of my list when I was

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #12 Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps

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  • August 15, 2020August 15, 2020
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I first heard Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on February 3, 1994 as part of the music theory classes I took at Foothill College. I went to the store and bought

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – Honorable Mention – Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker

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  • August 13, 2020August 13, 2020
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I’m adding Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker to the honorable mentions list. After Swan Lake, in 1876, Tchaikovsky composed The Sleeping Beauty in 1889, and with its success, he ventured for one

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Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical – #13 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

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  • August 12, 2020August 12, 2020
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George Gershwin comes in at #13 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with his classical/jazz hybrid, Rhapsody in Blue. I know this piece has been overplayed, some say overhyped, known

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