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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2014 at 23:32
The two composer/conductors Gustav Mahler and Hans Pfitzner had a famous disagreement.
                     Pfitzner met Mahler and told him that he thought Wagner was a great composer because he was German.
              Mahler replied to the effect that music, like the Symphony, should encompass the whole world, everything.
                    Pftizner stormed out of the room.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2014 at 06:29
In 1969 a studio group called The Electric Indian released the single "Keem-O-Sabe", which charted in the top 20 in America.  Among the musicians on the record: a young Daryl Hall.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2014 at 16:57
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

In 1969 a studio group called The Electric Indian released the single "Keem-O-Sabe", which charted in the top 20 in America.  Among the musicians on the record: a young Daryl Hall.


Cool! Also under the radar for many is the group from 1969 that Daryl Hall appeared in called Gulliver. They were strictly a studio band, with only one self titled debut album to their credit.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 24 2014 at 11:33
Judy Garland liked the music of Frederick Delius.

When conductor Arturo Toscanini started working with the Berlin Philharmonic for the first time, the orchestra found him so demanding, that they nick-named him "Tosca-No-No."LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2014 at 17:15
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

One hundred years ago, in 1913, the first complete recording of a symphony was made-Beethoven's Fifth, conducted by Artur Nikisch with the Berlin Philharmonic. It has been issued on CD on the Dutton label.

Nikisch was considered by many to be THE conductor of his day, until his death in the early 1920s. He conducted the world premiere of Bruckner's 7th Symphony in Leipzig, and the composer was present.

Nikisch was also interested in Mahler's music, and even conducted the first music from his 3rd Symphony, the inner movements, before the composer conducted the whole symphony later on.

Professor Hans Richter, another celebrated conductor, became very important in the late 19th, and first decade of the 20th Centuries. He conducted the world premieres of Bruckner's 4th and 8th Symphonies, and Elgar's First Symphony.
He retired around 1911, and unfortunately left no recordings.

American conductor Theodore Thomas, who died in the first decade of the 20th Century, was enormously important, being the director of many US concert premieres, including Bruckner's 4th and 7th Symphonies. He sometimes premiered musical works even before they had been done in Europe.

Leopold Stokowski had also a giant list of world premiere performances under his direction, including the American premieres of Elgar's Second Symphony, and Mahler's 8th Symphony and Das Lied Von Der Erde.
I am wrong about the first point. There was an earlier recording of a complete symphony, in Beethoven's Fifth, conducted by Friedrich Kark with the Odeon Orchestra in 1910!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2016 at 18:48
Famous Mahler conductor Bruno Walter only conducted Mahler's 7th Symphony twice, in 1920.

Walter was an early champion of Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht.

German conductor Carl Schuricht did conduct Bruckner's 2nd Symphony, on occasion.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2016 at 05:12
George Jones's legendary country song "White Lightning" was written by J.P. Richardson - aka The Big Bopper.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2016 at 13:16
The first artist to chart a Beatles song in America was not the Beatles.  Del Shannon covered "From Me To You" and took it to #77 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July of 1963 - half a year before the band broke in America.


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