AUDIO ART

What do we hear at the Golden Era Recorded Music project? Simply ALL MUSIC recorded on Planet Earth from 1948 to 1988! Join the Journey via ANALOG LP. Tonight we start out in the FLORIDA KEYS with JIMMY BUFFETT and 2 of his chart buster songs. Then it's on to GREAT BRITAIN during WWII and VERA LYNN boosting morale and hope. The VINYL VAULT has washed to the beach 2 DAVE BRUBECK treasures: a 1954 LP of his own piano compositions and a late 1960's album of his take on COLE PORT...ER. BONUS: A stunning essay on the 3 levels of jazz creation. Don't miss this one! DUKE ELLINGTON loved the old steam engine trains and he wrote a mini concerto for STEAM ENGINE in 1958. We will hear it and then on to a bit of the 19 year old MAHLER and his SONG OF LAMENT. Tuneful, tragic, amazing. We send out a link for the Zoom meeting every Wednesday by email! Please contact us (https://www.fibhornspeakers.com/contact/ ) and let us know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. See you at 7 PM tonight!

What do we hear at the Golden Era Recorded Music project? Simply any and all music on Planet Earth from 1948 to 1988! Join the journey! Hear the show LIVE at our shop 2-3 pm Sat, 153 MAPLE STREET, GF Hear our HIGH PERFORMANCE LP player system, $499 complete. Tonight we will start with the dance/jazz orchestras of 2 great New York hotels in 1958; the PLAZA and DUKE ELLINGTON plus the ROOSEVELT and LARRY ELGART. Both bands replaced the Prohibition era orchestras from the 1930's..., grown a bit tired. D and L still thrill today! The final movement of DEBUSSY'S LA MER (THE SEA) will lead us to... Two TOTALLY ORIGINAL talents from Latin America: SILVESTRE REVUELTES of Mexico and YMA SUMAC of Peru (or Brooklyn?). There is nothing like these two! The biggest hit by AMERICA will lead us to a serenade for guitar and mandolin by Gustav Mahler, as gracious and lovely as last week's waltz parody was ominous. Go figure! We send out a link for the Zoom meeting every Wednesday by email! Please contact us (https://www.fibhornspeakers.com/contact/ ) and let us know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. See you at 7 PM tonight!

At our GOLDEN ERA RECORDED MUSIC Project, we adventure together each WEDNESDAY night down the highways and byways of GREAT ANALOG RECORDS worldwide, 1948 to 1988. Hear the show LIVE at the LISTENING PLACE this SATURDAY from 2 to 3 pm, 153 MAPLE STREET, GF. WE will bring the musicians off LP and INTO THE ROOM! We start tonight where we left off last week: ENRIQUE GRANADOS and the orchestra version of the INTERMEZZO from his opera GOYESCAS (we heard piano music from this last w...eek). Great stuff. COLE PORTER'S inimitable lyrics and music from a London production of the hit musical ANYTHING GOES in 1934 will grace our computers with YOU'RE THE TOP, ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT and BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW. A brief visit to the high Andes and native flutes then: A stunning HAYDN PIANO SONATA breaks through his smiling, polite Rococo style and shows us his pain. ARLO GUTHRIE sings one by his father, then PLAY OF THE WAVES by Debussy and orchestra. We send out a link for the Zoom meeting every Wednesday by email! Please contact us (https://www.fibhornspeakers.com/contact/ ) and let us know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. See you at 7 PM tonight!

At our GOLDEN ERA RECORDED MUSIC Project every Wednesday night, we explore together LP RECORDS from every corner of the world, 1948 to 1988. Hear the show LIVE at the LISTENING PLACE this SATURDAY from 2 to 3 pm, 153 MAPLE STREET, GF. WE will bring the musicians off LP and INTO THE ROOM! ALICIA de LARROCHA brings her piano to SPAIN and the music of ENRIQUE GRANADOS, the GOYESCAS: Lyrical, sunny, coquettish. Beautiful stuff.... What is the biggest hit American POP SONG of all time? It isn't BLUE SUEDE SHOES, but you may know it when you hear it. STEVE SULLIVAN will tell the amazing story. A song by LOUIS ARMSTRONG from the film FIVE PENNIES and another from the LONDON SESSIONS of HOWLIN WOLF will take us to... CLAUDE DEBUSSY and his last composition (1918). ANDRE PREVIN and ERICK FRIEDMAN are the stars. . . . and EARL FATHA HINES will tuck us in! We send out a link for the Zoom meeting every Wednesday by email! Please contact us (https://www.fibhornspeakers.com/contact/ ) and let us know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. See you at 7 PM tonight!

Every Wednesday night at our GOLDEN ERA RECORDED MUSIC Project, we explore together LP RECORDS from every corner of the world, 1948 to 1988. NOTA BENE: We resume our LIVE GERM SESSIONS on this coming Saturday, from 4 to 5 pm at my LISTENING PLACE 153 MAPLE STREET, Glens Falls. The program is the same BUT played through the best speakers I make with the best amplifier that I own (1932 era 300B tubes). TONIGHT we will hear dance and march music in double time. First, it is the ...RUMSANIAN RHAPSODY No. 2 by the 20 year old GEORGE ENESCU (1901) A minor subset in the history of Rock music is inspired by CLASSICAL MUSIC compositions. I have discovered one of the best of the genre: ARS NOVA doing a PAVAN and ZARATHUSTRA. Our 3 part presentation of Wagner's DAS RHEINGOLD ends tonight with the ENTRY OF THE GODS INTO VALHALLA, never has a dark prediction of doom been so beautiful. A bit of double time BRITISH cake walk sends us home happy We send out a link for the Zoom meeting every Wednesday by email! Please contact us (https://www.fibhornspeakers.com/contact/ ) and let us know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. See you at 7 PM tonight!

We gather on Wednesday nights for our GOLDEN ERA RECORDED MUSIC PROJECT to listen to the greatness of music on LP records WORLDWIDE from the GOLDEN ERA (1948 to 1988)! Tonight we are starting where we left off last week: Movements 3 & 4 from DANZAS AFRO-CUBANAS by LECOUNA (the CARIBBEAN GERSHWIN). BY RAVE-REVIEW DEMAND: another cut from the ZZ TOP album TERMINATOR.... South of the Border again with DAVE BRUBECK live in MEXICO CITY and LA PALOMA AZUL. WAGNER'S 17 hour music drama THE RING OF THE NIBELUNGEN will happen in juicy bits over the next year. Tonight we are under the waters of the River Rhine with the RHINE MAIDENS and the evil ALBERICH. BENNY GOODMAN, MILT DUVIVIER, RUSS FREEMAN, TURK VAN LAKE & SHELLY MANNE send us home happy with INDIAN SUMMER. We send out a link for the Zoom meeting every Wednesday by email! Please contact us (https://www.fibhornspeakers.com/contact/ ) and let us know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. See you at 7 PM tonight!

We gather on Wednesday at our Golden Era Recorded Music Project to listen to the astonishing LP records, worldwide, AKA the GOLDEN ERA (1948 to 1988). BLUEGRASS is an almost exclusively white American musical idiom and we will be sampling one of the best bands: THE DOMINION BLUEGRASS BOYS straight from WEST VIRGINIA! LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS lead to ZZ TOP showing the FRANK ZAPPA influence in TV DINNERS... and finally: ROSSINI and his SEMIRAMIDE OVERTURE with GEORG SOLTI and the COVENT GARDEN OPERA ORCHESTRA on a stunning RCA Shaded Dog! If time allows, ERNESTO LACOUNA (the CARIBBEAN GERSHWIN) and SIBONEY by MORTON GOULD We will go home with the LENNON SISTERS in our ears and hearts! We send out a link for the Zoom meeting every Wednesday by email! Please contact us (https://www.fibhornspeakers.com/contact/ ) and let us know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. See you at 7 PM tonight!

LP records from the GOLDEN ERA (1948-1988) come to life at our Golden Era Recorded Music Project on Wednesday nights! Travel around the world with us! I was surprised to discover that there were TWO LP record companies in this area back in the day (1960-1980) and tonight we will be sampling local vinyl from both, including one featuring our very own RAY ALEXANDER! While in the mood for shorter pop and jazz pieces we will hear the English comedy duo FLANDERS & SWANN and their ...SONG OF REPRODUCTION then on to JAPANESE FOLK MELODIES, SHORTY ROGERS, ERNESTO LACUONA (the LATIN GERSHWIN), RERI GRIST, RERI was the soprano in LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S groundbreaking record of MAHLER'S SYMPHONY 4 and we will hear that symphony's 2nd movement scherzo combining death with voluptuousness. Nothing else like it! We send out a link for the Zoom meeting every Wednesday by email! Please contact us (https://www.fibhornspeakers.com/contact/ ) and let us know if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. See you at 7 PM tonight!