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MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT IN VIENNA
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THE OVERTURE TO THE OPERETTA OF THE SAME NAME, WRITTEN BY FRANZ VON SUPPE, 1844. THE OPERA DIED AFTER 3 DAYS, BUT THE POPULAR OVERTURE LIVES ON. THIS AND LIGHT CAVALRY, LISTED NEXT, WERE HIS MOST FAMOUS PIECES. PERFORMED BY THE USAF GOLDEN GATE BAND.
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Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi
Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.
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Genre
Classical • Opera
Charts
Peak #106
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
Franz von Suppe - 1844
Rights
public domain
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February 02, 2010
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MP3 8.5 MB • 158 kbps • 7:30
Story behind the song
A Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna belongs to a musical genre preceding the operetta--a humorous play, with song. interspersed is one of Suppe's earliest works. The overture to such a production never related to the story line Its function was to get the attention of the audience1 quiet the house and set the scene for the entertainment. Even at the age of twenty-four. Suppe had a "feel" for how to attract the audience with a pleasant, unpretentious bit of fluff. The original stage comedy died the natural death of a mediocre entertainment whose form is no longer in vogue, but its charming overture lives on. The lighthearted character of the play is apparent from the very beginning, as the dramatic opening statement by brass and winds is answered by a delicate pizzicato response two bars later. Only a composer with a sense of humor--and a secure position as music director of the theater--would take a chance on that kind of opening statement, especially so early in his career. Though Suppe never intended a specific program for the piece, it doesn't need one. Put aside thoughts of serious drama, bitter struggle, earthshattering consequences. Listen, imagine and invent your own meaning. This music is just plain fun. Franz von Suppe's father hoped his son would study law, and sent him to Paris for that purpose. But exposure to the artistic climate there merely reinforced his musical interests instead. After his father died, Franz and his mother moved from Dalmatia to Vienna., where he enrolled in the Conservatory. It proved to he a wise choice, for Suppe' fashioned a successful, popular and profitable career. Would he have done as well as a lawyer? Perhaps, but neither his name nor his heritage would have lasted as long had he abandoned music, for he became one of the founders of the Viennese light operetta. Though he composed a few sacred works late in his life, his output is almost entirely for the theater--popuIar entertainment, on a par in its own day with the Broadway musical in ours.
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