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Another live concert themed around 1914 being the year WW1 began

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Timbo in Oz

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Sunday Live with Damien Beaumont
1:00pm
Sunday Live Canberra
Presented by Julian Day from Llewellyn Hall, Canberra

David Pereira, cello
Aaron Chew, piano
Elaine Loebenstein, piano.

Warren
Adagio for cello and piano

Durosoir
Berceuse for cello and piano

Faur�
�l�gie in C minor Op. 24

De Falla
Asturiana and Nana from Suite Populaire
FS Kelly
Con Moto for cello and piano

Devaere
Grave Et Poignant for piano

Messian � Quartet for the End of time � Meditation on the Eternity of Jesus

Sound Engineer: Andrew Dixon
Producer: Matthew Dewey

We attended the concert.

Deeply affecting. Maybe I should take 20C music more seriously! :-)!

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger

Follow Ups:

The CD John Marks mentioned? - Timbo in Oz 18:30:23 04/13/14 (1)
See below.
Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
- Dutton, Elgar, Kelly et al (Open in New Window)
- Yes. - John Marks 09:30:53 04/14/14 (0)
  nt
FS Kelly's Elegy in Memoriam Rupert Brooke is a wonderful piece - John Marks 15:37:31 04/13/14 (3)
And nearly totally unknown.

Therefore I was stunned to find that someone had put the only recording of it (which I have previously recommended in Stereophile) up on YouTube.

It is modal; IIRC, Lydian.

Kelly himself died not long after putting it in final form.

"The Suicide of the West" indeed.

JM
- FS Kelly's Elegy in Memoriam Rupert Brooke (Open in New Window)
- No promises here John, but IF I get to record the relevant concert in - Timbo in Oz 18:17:35 04/13/14 (2)
  The Canberra International Music Festival 2014, OR if someone else from Artsound records it, which is likely
  
  I will try to get a recorded file of Con Moto to you, surrounded by the rest of the concert, of course.
  
  The Elegy is very beautiful.
  
  I'm ambivalent about Brooke as a poet, more below.
  
  I do not feel WWI was 'the suicide of the West,' or that it was futile. German Militarism was eventually defeated. It took two goes, and peace is still a ways off.
  
  American soldiers first fought the German Army during the Battle of Hamel. Fourteen were decorated.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hamel
  
  http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j35/blair.asp
  
  THE WWI poem for me is "Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori" by Wilfred Owen. My late FIL was an authority on our own WWI poets and was well grounded in all the English language WWI literature.
  
  Warmest
  
  Tim Bailey
  
  Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
  - Thanks re: the music. We will have to disagree about the history. - John Marks 09:48:18 04/14/14 (1)
    The people who were spoiling for a fight in the teens were the French General Staff. France had been in a long demographic decline, and France's General Staff was terrified that if they had to fight the Germans later rather than sooner, Germany's superior birth rate and overall demographic dynamism would spell doom for French ambitions.
    
    NOT getting into a fight was not on France's agenda, because it was EXISTENTIAL to the French establishment that they bloody Germany's nose to even the score after the debacle of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. "La Gloire" and all that.
    
    Trivia bit: the International Olympic Movement started in France as a way to get couch-potato French youth into shape for the war the French wanted. Fact.
    
    So, yeah, Germany was afflicted by militarism, but so was France. Had the US stayed out, WWI would have ended on terms not glorious to France and not hideous to Germany, and without Reparations hanging over Germany's head, there would not have been a financial meltdown, the honest civilians would have stayed in power, and there would have been no void for Hitler to fill.
    
    Since 1945 France has fought dirty wars in Indochina, Algeria, and Africa, and assassinated a Greenpeace activist in NZ.
    
    "On the twentieth anniversary of the sinking, it was revealed that the French president Fran�ois Mitterrand had personally authorized the bombing.[3]"
    
    (And Mitterand was up to his eyeballs in torture in Algeria. So much for Socialist fraternal feeling for the lesser races.)
    
    France has conducted all manner of nuclear tests, versus the German total of none. Zero, zip, nada.
    
    I am not a German triumphalist. My great-gandfather got out as soon as he could (1872), changed his name and Christianized, and never spoke a word of German again.
    
    But, fair is fair.
    
    No nation has a monopoly on Original Sin.
    
    ATB,
    
    John
    - RE: Thanks re: the music. We will have to disagree about the history. - MWE 07:33:31 04/18/14 (0)
      Good analysis, John. Will have to back and read up on some of this a little further, my WWI-era history is somewhat shaky.
      
      -Mark in NC
      "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"

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