Classical Music Word Association Game

[snyprrr]

Sun-treader

[matti]

Here Comes the Sun

[springrite]

Why Does the Sun have a Ring of Ashes? (Klebe)

[Wanderer]

Helios Overture - Nielsen



"In 1902, Nielsen signed a contract with the publisher Wilhelm Hansen, which allowed him to go to Athens, Greece, to join his wife Anne Marie Nielsen, who was one of the first sculptors allowed to make copies of the bas-reliefs and statues in the Acropolis Museum. Anne Marie, who had been granted the Ancker Award, was studying Greek art, while Nielsen, being a man of many interests, was interested in Archaeology.The local conservatory placed a study room with a piano at Carl Nielsen's disposal. Here he could sit and compose when he was not on excursions in the surrounding mountains with or without Anne Marie. Nielsen's stay in Athens gave him the inspiration of a work depicting the sun rising and setting over the Aegean Sea, an overture which he called ' Helios '. He began work on it in March, 1903, and finished it April 23 the same year. The score is written for three flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings."

[matti]

Four Last Songs (Strauss)

[Bogey]

Irish Songs (12), WoO 154: no 1, The Elfin Fairies by Ludwig van Beethoven

[karlhenning]

Tristan und Isolde (Mein irisch Kind)

[matti]

Tristan und Isolde (Mein irisch Kind)

Kind of Blue (The Irish child is sad somehow, Miles to go before he sleeps, perhaps  )

(A propos - an American kid I know started his German lessons here in Finland last autumn and he found the imperatives, as he understood them, very funny: DIE Mutter, DIE Computer... etc)

[karlhenning]

Casey at the Bat

[matti]

Die! StaBat Mutter

[karlhenning]

Ave Maris Stella

[karlhenning]

Grieg

http://www.youtube.com/v/UhNpg-wRYWU

[matti]

Some Moore fun of the same(ish) genre, which many of you will be familiar with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GazlqD4mLvw

(Apologies for not being able to provide a visible link)

[karlhenning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/GazlqD4mLvw

[matti]

Ah, my goodness you're clever and swift. Thanks. 

[karlhenning]

At your service, my friend!

[snyprrr]

Beach Blanket Bingo

[Wanderer]

Pebble Beach Sojourn - Ron Nelson

[karlhenning]

The Rake's Progress

[karlhenning]

Königin der Nacht