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Nickname: ex-kansan
Location: Middlebury VT, USA
In My Own Words:
Retired physician, student of classical music, collector of recordings for fifty years and once a serious pianist, I still get excited at the prospect of listening to a newly acquired recording. We're living in a golden age of classical music recordings, with about 100 years worth of performances to delight us. My musical interests are catholic, within the classical realm. I also read widely and … Read moreRetired physician, student of classical music, collector of recordings for fifty years and once a serious pianist, I still get excited at the prospect of listening to a newly acquired recording. We're living in a golden age of classical music recordings, with about 100 years worth of performances to delight us. My musical interests are catholic, within the classical realm. I also read widely and indiscriminately. I prefer to see the world as a comedy.
For those of you who might wonder if I'm the same Scott Morrison who used to live in suburban Kansas City, yes I am.
My reviews are dedicated to the late Bob Zeidler, Amazon reviewer and friend.
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I fell in love with Stravinsky's 'The Rake's Progress' in the 1950s via the composer's 1953 recording of the opera with the cast, chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera. Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress [1953 New York Studio Recording Made for Columbia Masterworks; Hilde Gueden, Eugene Conley, Mack Harrell, Blanche Thebom, Norman Scott, Martha Lipton, Paul Franke, Lawrence Davidson; Igor Stravinsky, Cond.] (It was his second of three recordings of the opera. The first was of the original 1951 Venice production and the last was the 1964 Sadler's Wells [the latter only available in the 22 CD Stravinsky set). It starred Eugene Conley as Tom Rakewell, Hilde Gueden as Anne Trulove,… Read more
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I'd been waiting for this one! In my college freshman English composition class, for our first essay, we were asked to write five pages on something we knew very well. It took me one nanosecond to decide to write on the Felix Weingartner recording of Beethoven's Third Symphony. I'd first heard it on a 78rpm set (as I recall it was twelve discs!) that belonged to my aunt. Then I bought my own LP of it in the early 1950s. I remember I wrote fifteen pages and even then had to pare it down somewhat. I remember my comp teacher wrote in the margins, 'Whoa, boy!' I wrote two pages alone on the 'false' horn entry against shimmering string tremolos ushering in the first movement… Read more
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Felix Weingartner (1863-1942) was of course primarily known as a very fine conductor -- his recording of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony was my first, way back in the 1940s, and I still love it immeasurably Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Eroica" & 4 -- but he was also a fine composer whose music has languished mostly unheard for decades. The enterprising cpo label has unearthed and recorded several of his orchestral works to almost universal praise: e.g., Felix Weingartner: Symphony No. 5 [Hybrid SACD],… Read more
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