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3 unusual facts about Internet Symphony No. 1 - "Eroica"


Eroica

Our Last Spring (Eroica), a 1960 Greek film with an international cast

The Internet Symphony No. 1 - "Eroica", a piece written by Tan Dun for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Volodja Balžalorsky

Four CDs were released as part of his Live Collection, with five more planned for release on the Cantabel label, supported by the Slovenian Ministry for Culture and the City of Ljubljana, with added releases by Eroica, a well known US label that features great classical artists worldwide.


1983 Pulitzer Prize

Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) by Ellen Zwilich (Margun Music)
Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982, in Alice Tully Hall, New York City.

Albert Sammons

He also consolidated his solo career by playing the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Queen's Hall in 1910.

Andrzej Munk

His feature films Man on the Tracks (Człowiek na torze, 1956), Eroica (Heroism, 1958), Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście, 1960), and Passenger (Pasażerka 1963), are considered classics of the Polish Film School developed in mid-1950s.

Caprice bohémien

An earlier example of Rachmaninoff's compositions, the piece consists of many moments played in full a tutti, which was the same bombastic approach that critics would lambast with his next composition, Symphony No. 1 in D minor.

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra

Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Bloch) or Concerto Grosso for string orchestra with piano obbligato, a 1925 work by Ernest Bloch

Eiji Oue

Oue's commercial recordings include Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Louis Spohr’s Violin Concerto No. 8 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hilary Hahn for Deutsche Grammophon.

Eroica Trio

The Eroica Trio is an American piano trio consisting of Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant'Ambrogio, cello.

Evolution of timpani in the 18th and 19th centuries

When composer Robert Schumann revised his Symphony No. 1, he made the timpani part considerably more difficult that required three timpani rather than the standard two-drum set.

Footprints Live!

# "Aung San Suu Kyi" - 9:28 - originally recorded for 1 + 1 with Herbie Hancock (1997)

Gangs in Australia

There have also been cases of Public Enemy No. 1, Volksfront and Blood & Honour in Australia.

Gregorio Perfecto

In Mabanag v. Lopez Vito, 78 Phil. 1 (1947), Perfecto dissented after the majority declined to examine whether the requisite votes in the House and Senate were obtained in the passage of an amendment to the Constitution allowing American citizens the right to use and develop natural resources in the Philippines.

Hugh Tinney

Dublinese highlights of Tinney's solo career include two major recital series in the at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1991, 1995) and six recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas at the Royal Dublin Society (2000–02).

Joseph Szigeti

He was among the first violinists to make Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto a standard part of his repertoire, and frequently performed and recorded works of Stravinsky (including the Duo Concertante, recorded with the composer at the piano in 1945.)

Larry Elgart

The instrumental was a medley of swing jazz hits - "In the Mood", "Cherokee", "American Patrol", "Sing, Sing, Sing", "Don't Be That Way", "Little Brown Jug", "Opus #1", "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart", and "String of Pearls" - that became so popular it even cracked the US Billboard Pop Singles chart (at #31) and Adult Contemporary chart (#20).

Lazar Berman

He recorded the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto with Herbert von Karajan, as well as broadcasting it on international television with Antal Doráti, to mark United Nations Day in 1976.

Let Yourself Go: The '70s Albums, Vol 2 – 1974–1977: The Final Sessions

Let Yourself Go, the follow-up box set to This Is the Story: The '70s Albums, Vol. 1 – 1970–1973: The Jean Terrell Years, comprises The Supremes' albums from 1974–1977, featuring original member Mary Wilson, longtime member Cindy Birdsong, newest member Scherrie Payne, and final Supreme Susaye Greene.

Nickrenz

Erika Nickrenz, an American classical pianist best known as the pianist for the Eroica Trio

Pierre Gros

Among his best known works are his collaborative volume, with Mario Torelli, Storia dell'urbanistica: il mondo romano (Laterza, 1988) and his two-volume treatise on Roman architecture, L'architectue Romaine Du début du IIIème siècle avant J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire vol. 1 Les monuments publics; vol. 2 2. maisons, palais, villas et tombeaux (Picard, 1996–2001).

Progressive tonality

While J.S. Bach in his instrumental and orchestral suites would often place every movement in the same key (see, for example, the solo cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012 or the equally homotonal A minor solo flute partita BWV 1013), in a work like his St Matthew Passion he felt able to 'progress' from an E minor start to an ending in C minor, and his Mass in B minor actually ends in D major.

A significant earlier example of the use of 'progressive tonality' by a British composer is the First Symphony (The Gothic) by Havergal Brian.

Public enemy

For other uses of this term, see Public Enemy No. 1 (disambiguation).

Russian Symphony Concerts

The following year, he led the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No 1.

Sondra Bianca

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor - Carl Bamberger Conducting (Columbia Records HS 11012, 1950s)

The Truman Show: Music from the Motion Picture

Also featured in the film are Frédéric Chopin's "Romance-Larghetto" from his first piano concerto, performed by Arthur Rubinstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" from his Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, performed by Wilhelm Kempff, Wojciech Kilar's "Father Kolbe's Preaching" performed by the Orchestra Philharmonique National de Pologne and "20th Century Boy" performed by rockabilly band The Big Six.

Valentina Babor

Appearing at the Gasteig in 2005, she performed Chopin's Piano Concerto in E minor with the Münchener Kammerorchester, conducted by Christoph Poppen.

William Kapell

-->These were released on the RCA Red Seal label in 2008 as Kapell Rediscovered. They contain several previously unknown performances of "God Save the Queen", Debussy's Suite bergamasque, Chopin's Barcarole, Op. 60, and Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20, and Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7, Op. 83.