UMich Symphony Band - Norman Dello Joio - Scenes from the Louvre (1968 perf.)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- University of Michigan Symphony Band
William D. Revelli, conductor
Scenes from the Louvre
Norman Dello Joio
conducted by Norman Dello Joio
January 11, 1968
Hill Auditorium
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
restored archival recording
presented as part of the University of Michigan Bicentennial (1817-2017)
Movement I , The Portal 0:00
Movement II The Children's Gallery 2:55
Movement III The Kings of France 5:20
Movement IV The Nativity Paintings 8:07
Movement V Finale 10:34
Composer: Norman Dello Joio (B. 01/24/1913, d. 07/24/2008)
The 3rd movement!! God Bless that Trumpet section!
I loved this piece in high school. It was one of my favorites we played
We played this slightly faster when I was in high school, but I love the slower tempo. It makes it SO much more majestic.
And the woodwinds that were able to stay in tune towards the end of Kings of France! You guys are the MVP's!
The third movement starts at 5:19
I attended this performance for the Annual Midwestern Conference on School Vocal and Instrumental Music.
I realize I'm alone in this, but in my life as a musician I've played this piece three times. I hated it every time.
This is not played nearly enough
lol it doesn't rlly sound like a grammy award winning soundtrack, but it makes for a rlly good grade 4-5 band piece:) played it in senior year, and was a lot of fun
Dello Joio is a neglected musical genius. As was once said (accurately) of Mahler, Dello Joio's day will come. This is especially true now that the 21st century has at last gotten beyond the dodecaphony, serialism, atonality, and other musical derangements and lunatic theories of the 20th century's Schoenberg-Boulez era. Eventually ordinary concertgoers - who no longer felt welcome in the symphony halls of that time - will be able to enter those halls again and belatedly enjoy Dello Joio, Flagello, David Diamond, Vittorio Giannini, Peter Mennin, Randall Thompson, William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, Roy Harris, Samuel Barber, and a host of other great composers who were shut out of the concert halls (dominated by the music-theory academics and the modish avante-garde) while they were still living.
Hmmm... What is it you're REALLY trying to say here, O Psalm 51?
(Chuckling) Actually, there is some truth in what you expressed above, and perhaps you'd agree with me in my opinion that much of the "dodecaphony, serialism, atonality", etc, in music composed during that time seems to habve been written by composers to impress their like-minded friends rather than for any sort of entertainment - indeed, as if the idea of "entertainment" was rather a low-class ambition. Garrison Keillor, while not speaking of music, unintentionally made an interesting comparison to this idea when he spoke of the sorts of poetry one finds in THE NEW YORKER magazine, and other publications like it; he described it as seeming to be like secret coded messages from the poets to their friends.
Regrettably, though, with the exception of a couple of worthwhile orchestral works, I don't think Dello Joio's "time will come" for the concert hall apart from perhaps the word of band music. That is no insignificant thing, for he was one of several composers of the mid-twentieth century who ably answered Persichetti's call for composers to give their best efforts to the music of bands and wind ensembles. I my scholastic and professional career, I have had the good fortune to perform NDJ's band music, and always with pleasure.
NDJ briefly was composer in residence at my university when I was a graduate student, and part of my duties at the time was to act as his chauffeur. I could tell you some stories...
Never mind the fact that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for his _Meditations on Ecclesiastes_ or the fact that he won an Emmy for composing incidental music for _The Louvre_ in 1965. But yes, it's a shame that we've largely forgotten about him.
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The problem created by much of the repertoire you mention as derangement/lunatic is that as it continued to be introduced far too many were hesitant to "just say no" for fear of being labeled a Luddite. So, people went along, and, I'm convinced, went so far as to try and sound excited about the "intracacies" of that material when in fact they really couldn't abide it. Group Think in the music world.
Go Bucks!
1:53 6/8
7:01 40
Lol