‘Lost’ Schubert - KUSC Click here to watch Click here to watch Here’s a nice ‘discovery’ story from American blogger and music journalist Alan Chapman via California classical music station KUSC. When Schubert's Unfinished Symphony finally came to light in 1865 (37 years after Schubert’s death), the news excited two Englishmen, musicologist George Grove and composer Arthur Sullivan (not yet half of Gilbert and Sullivan). Two years later they went to Vienna in search of the music Schubert had written for the play “Rosamunde.” They visited the home of Dr. Schneider, a friend of the Schubert family. He gave them permission to look through a dusty cupboard. And what did they find? In Grove's words,: “a bundle of music books two feet high, carefully tied round, and black with the undisturbed dust of half a century.” They had found the complete score for “Rosamunde.” But wait! There’s more. Our enterprising Englishmen also found Schubert’s First, Second, Third, Fourth and Sixth Symphonies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8TgwXRlIwI And here’s another intriguing snippet, Schubert’s Entr'acte no. 3 from "Rosamunde" played as an encore from the YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas at Sydney Opera House on March 20, 2011. Insider Insights—The Japanese Kimono – Met Met Facebook or YouTube pages. Free. No login necessary. Next Sunday, August 20, 10:00–10:30 A.M ET we can join Monika Bincsik, Diane and Arthur Abbey and Associate Curator of Japanese Decorative Arts, and Marco Leona, David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Scientific Research, both experts from the Metropolitan Museum in New York to explore the history and modernization of the Japanese kimono. This fascinating programme is about Japan’s famous weaving, dying, and embroidery techniques along with discoveries from new scientific research. The 24 Hour Plays: The Nationals 2022 The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals 2022 • Stellar Tickets Click here for tickets Here’s a fun project designed to support young actors and other theatre professionals at the start of their careers. The 24 Hour Plays: The Nationals, in partnership with the New School for Drama, is a rigorous professional experience for early-career artists. Over the course of a week, the company engaged in intensive workshops, panel discussions with industry game-changers, and finally, their own production of The 24 Hour Plays. In July, the 2022 Nationals cohort wrote, rehearsed, and performed five brand-new plays and one brand-new musical in just 24 hours. On-demand through Aug 24. $12 Birdland – New York To my delight, New York’s Birdland, known as ‘The Jazz Corner of the World’, has finally started livestreaming some of its acts so that those of us not able to be at 43rd and 9th Avenue can also experience some of the joys of its varied jazz programming. Each livestream is available for replay to give us a chance to see and hear it. Here's what’s coming up this week: The Gil Evans Project: Aug 16 (Miles Ahead), Aug 17 (Porgy & Bess), and Aug 19 (Sketches of Spain). All shows @ 9:30pm ET and available for replay through Sunday 8/22. Streaming Passes at https://flymachine.com/o/birdland An exclusive one-of-a-kind event! Band leader Ryan Truesdell recreates the beloved Columbia recordings iconic jazz trumpeter Miles Davis made in collaboration with arranger Gil Evans. A 21-piece jazz orchestra and guest soloist in rarely heard performances of the music from "Miles Ahead," "Porgy and Bess," and "Sketches of Spain." *Passes may be purchased individually or in a discounted bundle. Bird with Strings: Aug 25 @ 9:30pm and 72-hour replay. Streaming Passes at fly.live/strings Saxophone and clarinet legend Ken Peplowski leads a birthday salute to Charlie Parker and his most beloved recording, "Charlie Parker with Strings." This rare concert event will include Ken Peplowski’s Quartet plus an 8-piece string orchestra playing the actual arrangements from the Bird with Strings recordings plus guest soloist, trumpeter Terell Stafford. Julie Benko & Jason Yeager in “Hand in Hand”: Aug 29 @ 7pm and 72-hour replay. Funny Girl’s Julie Benko joins forces with jazz pianist (and husband) Jason Yeager for an unforgettable evening performing selections from their new duo album, “Hand in Hand.” Streaming Passes at fly.live/handinhand ‘Master Harold’ …and the boys – National Theatre Click here for tickets The National Theatre keeps adding to its online platform and it’s worth returning regularly to see what’s new on the site. New this month is ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the boys, from Tony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard, a semi-autobiographical and blistering masterwork exploring the nature of friendship. This play, set in South Africa during the apartheid era, is about how institutionalized racism, bigotry or hatred can become absorbed by those who live under it. We find ourselves in St George's Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, 1950. On a long rainy afternoon, employees Sam and Willie practise their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship. Hally arrives from school to hide out in his parents’ tea room. These two men have been unlikely best friends to Hally his whole life. But it is apartheid-era South Africa: he's Master Harold, and they are the boys. Tony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical play explores the ways people can hurt even those they love. Banned in South Africa, it was the first of Athol Fugard’s plays to premier outside South Africa at Yale Rep in March 1982 and it then transferred to Broadway where it ran for 344 performances, an international hit. It is revived regularly all over the world and considered a classic. The National Theatre’s production is directed by Roy Alexander Weise and stars Lucian Msamati as Sam and Hammed Animashaun as Willie. You've Got A Friend - James Taylor & Carole King James Taylor & Carole King - You've Got A Friend (BBC In Concert, 11/13/71) - YouTube Click here to watch This song never goes out of fashion. It’s been the go-to encore in hundreds of cabaret acts throughout the world, sung by hundreds of artists, but here’s the original. In this restored footage of "James Taylor In Concert," James performs Carole King's classic song, "You've Got a Friend" on the popular BBC series "In Concert" on November 13, 1971. James is joined by Carole King on piano, Leland Sklar on bass and Russ Kunkel on percussion. In 1971, Carole released her album "Tapestry" and James released "Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon." "You've Got a Friend" appeared on both albums and James's single of the song reached #1 on the Billboard 100 and #4 on the UK Singles Chart. Both albums won Grammy Awards for the song (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year). Carole has said that she wrote "You've Got a Friend" in response to this lyric in James's song "Fire and Rain": "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend".
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