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Even if you are not a musician, there is fascinating info here about droplets vs aerosols.

Please share this article with anyone you know who is attempting to get back to group music making too soon. It breaks my heart that we can't do this right now, but it's simply not safe.

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Singing, the Church, and COVID-19 | drheathernelson
drheathernelson.com/singingand



It may be a long time before it is safe to sing together.

Here are summary notes from a webinar held yesterday, hosted by a group of choral organizations and medical specialists.

docs.google.com/document/d/10z

The source webinar is here, but they had technical problems. The description is worth reading for the background of the speakers.
youtu.be/DFl3GsVzj6Q



Dimitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel
BBC Proms 2007

youtu.be/XKXQzs6Y5BY


The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2.

youtu.be/amSqQ5XNaGE


cc: @phase

The Dunedin Consort are now my first choice for authentic baroque performances.

Bach - St. John Passion
Reconstruction of Bach's Passion Liturgy
Dunedin Consort, John Butt

youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK



I meant to post this yesterday, as the prayer is intended for Maundy Thursday. I still encourage you to listen; it's one of my favorite choral motets.

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Maurice Duruflé - Ubi caritas
(from Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op. 10)

Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge

youtu.be/2-LQve92U1o



I'm feeling aggressive.

The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War (Allegro)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras

youtu.be/kzJlIrZWEoM


Krzysztof Penderecki
Symphony No. 3
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit

youtu.be/i_a2pfwKjIY


This difficult music.
For a difficult time.

Krystof Penderecki
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit, Conductor

youtu.be/Dp3BlFZWJNA


Do you like Beethoven? Especially when he combines choir and solo singers with orchestra, like the last movement of the 9th symphony? Then you'll love this.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis in D major, op.123
Edda Moser, soprano
Hanna Schwarz, mezzo-soprano
René Kollo, tenor
Kurt Moll, bass
Grosser Rundfunkchor Hilversum N.O.S. Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam Leonard Bernstein

youtu.be/06PPhF2tX1g


Ludwig van Beethoven
Fugue for string quartet in B flat major ("Grosse Fuge"), Op. 133, written in 1825.
Talich Quartet

youtu.be/XAgdd2VqLVc


I need to get something off my chest.

Would all of these "inspirational" videos of musicians COMING TOGETHER IN HARMONY through the POWER OF MUSIC do it with something besides BEETHOVEN'S ODE TO FUCKING JOY?!?!??!

I have nothing against Beethoven's 9th, but there is SO MUCH amazing music out there. Recycling the same few "hits" reduces "classical" music to predictable memes. It dumbs things down for the audience instead, of expanding their knowledge and experience.


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