Actually, I've just thought of another one. Stravinksy wrote an arrangement of Happy Birthday for his own 80th. It's a hoot. See the YouTube Video here
What about the Purcell 'Birthday' Odes! A double winner, not just Birthday music, but also for a Queen!! Actually, make that a triple winner--as it is a Purcell Anniversary year.
Oh, and there's even more reason--one of them is 'Come, Ye Sons of Ar…
This may be the sort of thing you're after, Randolph - 'Siegfried Idyll' by Wagner - written for his wife Cosima's birthday, and performed by a group of musicians on the staircase of the Wagners' home as she awoke on 25 December, 1870.
Is this the sort of thing you're after, Randolph - 'Siegfried Idyll' by Wagner - written for his wife Cosima's birthday, and performed by a group of musicians on the staircase of the Wagner's home as she awoke on 25 December, 1870.
Here's a question for all you cognosenti. Most of Oz is celebrating the Queen's birthday on June 6th and I have a brekkie programme on that day. I'd like to play some 'birthday' music that classical composers wrote but can't seem to find anything. A…
Also...............how about a section that identifies all the classical radio stations throughtout the world that can be reached by internet. And a button that lets you hear them.
Add a section that looks at humour in music. Anecdotes about musos...original anecdotes, not the operatic ones we have heard countless times.
How about a section on musical biogs? Rossini, Verdi, Schubert etc
On 2mbs.com....Wacky World of Music 1500 Sydney time Sunday or 0500 GMT...more fun with music than you deserve!...Then if you like your opera plot's made fun of tune in on Suday Sydney time 0900 or 2300 GMT Saturday to Opera Explorations.