With April 1 in the not too distant past, our theme on this week's Learning to Listen is humor in music and musical jokes.
Program Playlist
Billy Mayerl: "April's Fool"
R Strauss; arr. Hasenhore: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Joh. Strauss: Joke Polka
Stig Rybrant: Deep Brass Joke
Berlin Trombone Quintet
Mozart: Ein Musicalisches Spaß first and last movements
Beethoven: from Musical Jokes - Lob auf der Dicken, Graf liebster Graf, Esel aller Esel
Seymour Barab:
from Parodies: In the style of Handel - 'I'll Never Get to Macy's' and in the style of Moussorgsky- 'Poor Old Lady'
Mary Hubbell, soprano
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger:
from Flowers from Froso: Folk Humor
Saint-Saáns:
from Carnival of the Animals - The Tortoise
Clementi:
The Black Joke - Theme and Variations on Forte Piano
Constantino Mastroprimiano, fortepiano
Haydn:
Joke Quartet: Finale
Emerson Quartet
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