Happy Birthday, Cole Porter!
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Cole Porter, arguably America’s premiere 20th-century songwriter, was born this day in 1891. Feel free to hum along as we honor him with several selections, including “Night and Day.”
Wynton Marsalis, that fabulous trumpeter of jazz and classical music both, delights us in Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, as well as in Duke Ellington’s “Portrait of Louis Armstrong.”
Violinist Gil Shaham is joined by his pianist sister, Orli, in Antonin Dvorak’s Violin Sonata in F during our second hour. Gil is featured with the New York Philharmonic June 15th through 18th, playing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.
According to Robert Simpson, Symphony No. 3 by Carl Nielsen (1865) is called “Sinfonia espansiva” because it expresses “the outward growth of the mind’s scope and the expansion of life which comes with it.” Hmm. Regardless of the meaning, wait till you hear the wordless vocalises for soprano and baritone in the pastoral slow movement, ecstatic, tranquil, and—yes, gorgeous! Neeme Jarvi conducts the Gothenburg Symphony; the two singers are Soile Isokoski and Jorma Hynninen.
Wynton Marsalis, that fabulous trumpeter of jazz and classical music both, delights us in Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, as well as in Duke Ellington’s “Portrait of Louis Armstrong.”
Violinist Gil Shaham is joined by his pianist sister, Orli, in Antonin Dvorak’s Violin Sonata in F during our second hour. Gil is featured with the New York Philharmonic June 15th through 18th, playing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.
According to Robert Simpson, Symphony No. 3 by Carl Nielsen (1865) is called “Sinfonia espansiva” because it expresses “the outward growth of the mind’s scope and the expansion of life which comes with it.” Hmm. Regardless of the meaning, wait till you hear the wordless vocalises for soprano and baritone in the pastoral slow movement, ecstatic, tranquil, and—yes, gorgeous! Neeme Jarvi conducts the Gothenburg Symphony; the two singers are Soile Isokoski and Jorma Hynninen.
