SUNDAY MORNING CLASSICS ON TBP

A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”
nkit, Austrian Peter, and Steve C.

Every Sunday morning we present selections for our TBP family to enjoy.

We present symphonies, ensembles, quartets, octets, etc.

Not all of our music is strictly ‘classical’. We may stray a little, but we strive to make all of our selections ‘classy’.

We offer tips on proper ‘symphony etiquette’ and even some selections that are a bit light-hearted and fun aimed at a younger audience. Those pieces will be so designated, and might be a good way to introduce kids to a world of music that they might not have been exposed to or think of as old and ‘stuffy’.

A full symphony will run as long as it will. We don’t want to cut a symphony short. However, we also include some shorter pieces that we try to keep under fifteen minutes in length. You can sample each and hopefully find one or more that pleases you.

We hope that you enjoy our Sunday selections.


And now for something completely different.

This one comes to us via Muscledawg who pointed us in the right direction.

12 Girls Band – Beautiful Energy

A Chinese group of girls that are really very interesting.
Their version of David Brubeck’s “Take Five” at 1:14:20 is very good.

01 – Freedom
02 – Miracle
03 – Flower and Youth
04 – Chase
05 – Alamuhan
06 – I Can’t Be Your Man
07 – Hepbeat
08 – Hang Rila
09 – Thanks For Living Years
10 – No Word
11 – Random
12 – Spirit Dance
13 – Happy Valley
14 – Mountains And Rivers
15 – Toss
16 – Take Five
17 – New Classicalism
18 – Liu San Jie
19 – Victoria’s Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZrWUL4k68

These Are For The Kids

O Mio Babbino Caro

This should knock your socks off. If you’ve never seen nor heard of her, this is Amira Willighagen. She is of Dutch/South African heritage.

She is currently 16 years old, but has been singing for some time. She has many many videos on you Tube.

I suppose the best way to introduce her is to let her introduce herself as she does on “Holland’s Got Talent” when she was nine years old. Sit back, listen and enjoy Amira singing “O Mio Babbino Caro” a soprano aria written by Giacomo Puccini.

Sarah Brightman has nothing on this young lady, and Amira also does Maria Callas as well as Maria Callas does Maria Callas. She may indeed be Maria Callas re-incarnated.

Time to Say Goodbye

Here she is singing “Time to Say Goodbye” with Ben Heijnen in 2016 at the ripe old age of 12.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRRdZGYz6vA

Nella Fantasia

Finally, this is Amira (again at age 12) performing live in concert in South Africa.

What an incredible talent!

Play it for the kiddos…

Saxophones express a mysterious sound of Bach for pure enjoyment:

Dear Bach… A video by Jon Hiseman, filmed on the last day of recording the new Apollo Saxophone Orchestra album ‘Perpetual Motion’ – 10 compositions for saxophone orchestra by Barbara Thompson.

Shot in the concert hall of the Royal Northern College of Music, the acoustics of this marvellous hall greatly enhanced the orchestral sound of the 12 saxophones, under the musical direction of Rob Buckland and Andy Scott

Sweet Georgia Brown

Jazz in Marciac

August 1, 2010

The Wynton Marsalis Quintet performing a swinging interpretation of Sweet Georgia Brown, featuring:

Mark O’Connor (violin)

Frank Vignola (guitar).

Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)

Dan Nimmer (piano)

Walter Blanding (sax)

Carlos Henriquez (bass)

Ali Jackson (drums)

The Classic Music Mafia – Adding some class to this joint one Sunday at a time.

Heaven help us…

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