Link to Richard Kastle's official website: http://www.richardkastle.com/ Kastle conducts the premiere at Lincoln Center. This is the orchestral version of the Third Movement. The piano arrangement is available on the Royce Concerto CD.
"Women and children first" was strictly enforced due to the fact that the the Titanic wasn't equipped with enough life boats for all of her passengers. On her slanting decks, husbands were bidding their wives and families farewell as lifeboats were being lowered into the icy water.
Isador Straus assisted his wife Ida as she moved to board lifeboat number eight. She refused to get in, saying, "We've been together for many years. Where you go, I go." They pulled up deck chairs and sat together side by side, in tight embrace, ready to meet death as they had lived their lives: together.
The story of Ida and Isador Straus is one of the most poinient of the Titanic's many tragic stories.
Woven into the theme is a sense of the Straus' background, the ragtime optimism of an America which held great promise and success for an immigrant like Straus, though what we hear is a melancholy strain, like something lost, in the final plunge of that which was thought to be unsinkable. For all the sadness of the piece, there is a feeling of warmth for the love between two persons so wedded in life that even death could not part them.
"Women and children first" was strictly enforced due to the fact that the the Titanic wasn't equipped with enough life boats for all of her passengers. On her slanting decks, husbands were bidding their wives and families farewell as lifeboats were being lowered into the icy water.
mikecaffey 1 year ago
Isador Straus assisted his wife Ida as she moved to board lifeboat number eight. She refused to get in, saying, "We've been together for many years. Where you go, I go." They pulled up deck chairs and sat together side by side, in tight embrace, ready to meet death as they had lived their lives: together.
The story of Ida and Isador Straus is one of the most poinient of the Titanic's many tragic stories.
mikecaffey 1 year ago
Woven into the theme is a sense of the Straus' background, the ragtime optimism of an America which held great promise and success for an immigrant like Straus, though what we hear is a melancholy strain, like something lost, in the final plunge of that which was thought to be unsinkable. For all the sadness of the piece, there is a feeling of warmth for the love between two persons so wedded in life that even death could not part them.
mikecaffey 1 year ago