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Rest well, Dolly🕯️💕 …Thanks for tuning in! Drop by #SatMat for workplace health & safety PSAs (info➡️ https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/117193209156349834) & #SymSat for Mabor Day music (info➡️ https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/117193212304276915) + Join me next week when we kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth with “Ana Maria in Novela Land” (2015) & “The Three Caballeros” (1944) on #MusComEnt & #RetroView respectively. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend💕

And this is an extra treat b/c this is performed by none other than one of the planet’s greatest pianists: Martha Argerich (June 5, 1941-)🇦🇷
#SymSat #MarthaArgerich

You can follow along with a score of “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” available here (http://waltercosand.com/CosandScores/Composers%20Q-Z/Vaughan%20Williams,%20Ralph/Fantasia_on_Christmas_Carols__orch._score_.pdf) and there’s some really interesting history and analysis of this piece available to read for free here (https://archive.org/details/musicofralphvaug000664mbp/page/n141/mode/2up)
#SymSat #RalphVaughanWillaims #RVW #CecilSharp

Next we have “Fantasia on Christmas Carols”, a single movement folk song-based choral composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams 🇬🇧 (https://youtu.be/KaTxLnvM3UA?si=L07Q2saH80dMrmuu). It’s part of a series of English folk carols collected and arranged by RVW and his friend & collaborator musicologist Cecil Sharp (November 22, 1859-June 23, 1924)🇬🇧. It features several quotations of other carols (“The First Nowell”, etc).
#SymSat #RalphVaughanWillaims #RVW #CecilSharp

Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Folk Songs of the Four Seasons” (https://youtu.be/dWetJEGQlU4?si=kQThG6lsmfleffDx) is a cantata written for women/treble voices grouped into the four seasons based on English folk songs from the late medieval period (one of RVW’s special interests) this is “Autumn” which is comprised of the songs “John Barleycorn”, “The Unquiet Grave” and “An Acre of Land”. You can follow along with a free score available here (https://archive.org/details/folksongsoffours00unse/page/30/mode/2up)
#SymSat #RalphVaughanWilliams #RVW

If this sounds a little RVW-y in parts it’s likely because Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst were besties who influenced each other. Here’s a really cool 2017 BBC documentary about their friendship and their works (https://youtu.be/azkV3iZJzFQ?si=hH4DbIbY_azGJwdW) A book about their friendship featuring their letters “Heirs and Rebels” can be read for free here (https://archive.org/details/heirsrebelslette0000gust)
#SymSat #GustavHolst #RalphVaughanWilliams #RVW

@MatthewTitus88 A love ... bizzare?! 😛 #TieIn #SymSat