Another Early Edition of Saturday's Music

This one features another birthday composer.

Funny, there are three today. Eric Kunzel, JS Bach, and today's featured composer Modest Mussorgsky. Most likely you know the piece I will feature. In any event I feel it to be rather appropriate given today's weather not being bright and springy.

Modest Mussorgsky was born today in 1839 in Russia. Interestingly enough one of his works is entitled Boris Godounov which I guess Boris Badenov (Natasha and Boris from Rocky & Bullwinkle) is play off of.

Another famous piece by Modest is entitled Pictures at an Exhibition which is one of those works with a very heroic ending.

Happy birthday Modest, you would be 169 years old today! Funny, in my mind Modest is a post-romantic composer though the time period in which he lived is definitely romantic.

Anyway the gabbing ends and Night on Bald Mountain begins:


Here is the ending to Pictures at an Exhibition:

Beware The Earworm - Saturday's Music!

I recently picked up this Saturday's Music featured piece and since doing so whether I have the CD playing or not it is in my head, beware the earworm. The composer whose music is featured has been a Badger Blog Alliance guest in the past. In the runup to the first snowstorm of the year I put up an appropriate work of his and last week I commemorated his 329th birthday. Will The Beatles have the same following 279 years from now? I am skeptical.

Anyway, the music and the time in which this composer live is considered baroque and is marked by ornate detail and little open space on the musical canvas. When I listen to the work on CD I am constantly discovering new details in the music.

Anyway, I present to you The Mandolin Concerto in D (Lute RV 93) by il Prette Rosso – The Red Priest aka Antonio Vivaldi: If you are not smiling by the end of the piece, don't worry we will call 911!