Friday night Organ–In honor of s~~~ty weather.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872 – 1958 was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.

His seventh symphony, the Sinfonia Antarctica (1952), a by-product of the composer’s score for Scott of the Antarctic, has consistently divided critical opinion on whether it can be properly classed as a symphony. Critics argue that though the work can make a deep impression on the listener, it is neither a true symphony in the understood sense of the term nor a tone poem and is consequently the least successful of the mature symphonies. The work is in five movements, with wordless vocal lines for female chorus and solo soprano in the first and last movements. In addition to large woodwind and percussion sections the score features a prominent part for wind machine.

Obviously the composer is outside my normal parameters (post 1760) but his suite captures the mood here in Florida. There is a small part for organ in the 3d movement sooooo I can get away with this. Enjoy the visuals as well.

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[GregB0Participant]

Choice Tower, Everyone should be rocking tonight … Hurricane or not!

Sorry Pete but tonight Tower has the music slot…. unless you unleash some Ozzie on him!

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

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GregB0 wrote:

Everyone should be rocking tonight … Hurricane or not

Right on brother!

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