HighNotes Links

Hello again from the Evanston Symphony Orchestra! We’re a true community orchestra, with volunteer players who all live in Evanston and nearby towns and come together for the sheer joy of making music. Please join us whenever you can, either in person when we can play together again or on YouTube in the meantime! The September issue of HighNotes, the ESO’s publication of musical articles and activities for Evanston seniors, highlights four wonderful pieces of music by Johannes Brahms (including a prank he played on the very staid University of Breslau), tells you how to decode academic regalia, and introduces you to two of our favorite soloists. More puzzles, memory-joggers called “Bygones,” and really bad jokes are also regular features. If you’d like some more information on any of the articles or music mentioned in the September HighNotes, here are the links to many of the pieces. By the way, some of these pieces start out with an ad. Just give it five seconds and click on “Skip Ad” in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Symphony No. 1 in C Minor – This month, we’re delighted to bring you a recording of this beautiful Brahms masterwork by our own ESO. You can find it on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEYel_d5A0 We think that the fourth movement has one of the most beautiful melodies in all of classical music. Double Concerto – Irina Muresanu on violin and Wendy Warner on cello with the ESO in concert on June 5, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtaCtrzgEZY Hungarian Dance No. 6 – Here’s the link to the ESO playing Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 6 from our June 5, 2016, concert. https://youtu.be/Dd_BArowk6A. The camera does a great job of panning over the orchestra, so you may see some faces of friends and neighbors having a great time making great music! And, as promised, here’s the link to a cartoon some of us well remember seeing as kids - Pigs in a Polka, which uses parts of Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 3, 5 and 6 to tell a familiar story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9cD4QKaZU Academic Festival Overture - Brahms’ delicious prank on the University of Breslau is given full academic honors by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the late Sir Georg Solti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfhAZNlRa6A And for you movie buffs, here’s a link to People Will Talk, the 1951 romantic comedy with Cary Grant, and Jeanne Crain (and Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn and Walter Slezak, too!) Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture introduces the opening credits and, at about 2 minutes from the end, Cary Grant “conducts” an orchestra for the grand finale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=8CGjnY8x9sI Watch the whole film or fast forward to the end – as you wish! We’re already working on the October HighNotes, so “stay tuned!” :D

ESO HighNotes Links 1 of 1 Vol.1,No.3; Sep2020