30. September 2012 · Comments Off on Sunday Evening Music · Categories: Sunday Evening Music

Thomas Tallis: In ieiunio et fletu
Alamire

In fasting and weeping the priests prayed: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people, and give not thine inheritance to perdition. Between the porch and the altar the priests wept, saying: Spare thy people.

30. September 2012 · Comments Off on Sunday @ Noon · Categories: Sunday @ Noon Music

Psalm 12 from the Genevan Psalter, setting by Goudimel
Ernst Stolz, instruments

text & more

30. September 2012 · Comments Off on Sunday Morning Music · Categories: Sunday Morning Music

William Byrd: O Lord, Within Thy Tabernacle
The spirit of GAMBO

There is a musical instrument called oboe, and the musician who plays it is called an oboist……….interesting

28. September 2012 · Comments Off on TQOD · Categories: TQOD

Found three sample music files in my computer at work. Didn’t have to go online to kill the silence; so there! Lovely oboe music…

On the program for our Symphony Silicon Valley opening set is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

No, we won’t have actors.

27. September 2012 · Comments Off on Moving Backwards · Categories: ACappellaTuesday™, Videos

Clever video!

My guess is that they sang forwards and only lip synced to the song later backwards, then played the video backwards (if I’m making sense there!), but who knows …?

27. September 2012 · Comments Off on TQOD · Categories: TQOD

Charles is funny keep bugging me to play the oboe or tuba

26. September 2012 · Comments Off on Andy Williams 1927-2012 · Categories: Losses

26. September 2012 · Comments Off on TQOD · Categories: TQOD

Our hire car’s brakes sound like an oboe. That can’t be good…