Music Appreciation Part 7

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The Christmas Concerto is really by ARCHANGELO CORELLI and it is really Opus 6 No. 8. Handel had 12 Concerti Grossi in his Opus 6, and that is what I was thinking about during part of my explanation, so Ive got some underlying facts and names all screwed up here. Its been so long since Ive actually brought these ideas to the forefront of my mind in a verbal format that I didnt realize how much in my mind was misfiring. The point I want to make is still there—there isnt any difference between a concerto di chiesa and a concerto di camera except in its external designation. So its OK for the atheists to like the Christmas Concerto. By the time I finished, I figured some things out, so it really is a picture of Corelli.

In a recent video, I play all the parts of the inner movement of a famous baroque concerto. That is the real sample piece which is used as the example of the ideas in the discussion of this video. Bowings arent important to all musicians, but phrasing is, and it is through bowings that string players achieve phrasing, so some of what I talk about here is more universal than it may sound.

Actually, you dont have to look in someones eyes to resolve musical phrasing issues—being in touch with their presence will work. Perhaps more on this in a later video.

[Skitch Henderson was already a well-known musician before he joined Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. Ed McMahon and Henderson had a 15-minute show between the end of local news at 11:15 (Eastern Time) and the beginning of the Tonight Show at 11:30 p.m., where Ed would go over and sit on the piano (or something similar) with Henderson and talk to the audience, or just be silly. or Henderson would lead the "orchestra" in a number. 15 minutes was too short a time for the show to last for my father, because he really enjoyed it. (In the 1960's, late night news shows were only 15 minutes and local stations didn't want to have to program anything else. The show originated in New York City at the time.) Johnny was jealous because the 15-minute show had more viewers than the Tonight Show. People would watch the news, and during the McMahon/Henderson warm-up decide the day had been long enough and go to bed. From time to time, Johnny would try to get the 15-minute segment cancelled, but no one would step up with other programming, so he was left to fume. It was especially frustrating for him, because even if had gotten the show cancelled, whatever replaced it almost certainly would have also had higher ratings than he did, and for the same reason.]

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