Poulenc wrote the melodie 'A sa guitare' (To his guitar) in 1935 for soprano and piano. The text is by Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585).
This recording is performed by Felicity Lott, soprano; Graham Johnson, piano.
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The dance 'Mambo' appears in the neighborhood dance scene in Act I of Bernstein's West Side Story. Preceding the famous song 'Maria', members of the rival gangs perform this 'challenge dance' during which Tony and Maria meet and fall in love.
Bernstein composed a symphonic suite of orchestral music from the show in 1957; 'Mambo (Meno Presto)' is the 4th movement in the suite.
This recording is performed by the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra; Fernando Lozano, conductor.
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The quality and quantity of playlists created during the Online Jazz Music Festival was tremendous, and we urge everyone with a Jazz Music Library subscription to check out the new additions. It was difficult selecting a winner for our playlist competition, so we chose two!
Our two winners have earned their libraries free, one-year subscriptions to the new Jazz Music Library.
Congratulations to our winners and their libraries, and thanks to everyone that created and submitted a playlist.
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Our first annual Online Jazz Music Festival was a hit, thanks to the thousands of visitors that attended. As promised, we're sending a copy of The Very Best of Prestige Records from Concord Music Group to the winners of our online jazz quiz competition. The 2009 quiz winners are:
We thank everyone that participated in our quiz competition. Check back here tomorrow when we announce the winner of our Jazz Music Library playlist competition.
Join us at the first annual Alexander Street Online Jazz Music Festival for great music, free downloads, interviews, videos, quizzes, coupons, contests and prizes. The festival begins today and runs through Thursday, May 14th.
Without leaving your desk you can listed to more than 18,000 jazz recording in streaming audio from our new online collection, Jazz Music Library. Create a playlist for class use or just for fun, and send us your playlist's permanent URL. You could win a free, one-year subscription to Jazz Music Library for your library.
Enter the festival at http://alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm and get free access to Jazz Music Library for the duration of the festival. And don't forget to take our quizzes and submit your playlists for a chance to win a prize.
Samuel Barber's Nuvoletta, Op. 25 uses text from 'The Mookse and the Gripes' section of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. Barber composed the work in 1947.
This recording is performed by Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), and Graham Johnson (piano).
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We've just released the first set of MARC records for Classical Music Library, and they can be downloaded now at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com.
This set contains records at the album level and references composers, conductors, and ensembles for every track. There are 360 records in this set, and additional sets are on their way.
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To celebrate the launch of Jazz Music Library, we're holding the first annual Online Jazz Music Festival at http://alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm from Tuesday, May 12 through Thursday, May 14.
In addition to making the new Jazz Music Library freely accessible to everyone, we will be offering free music downloads, Concord Jazz videos, quizzes to test your jazz knowledge, and special discount coupons from publishing partners Concord Jazz and Jazzology.
All festival attendees will be entered in drawings to win prizes, including free CDs and a Flip video camera. We will also be holding a juried playlist competition for a free one-year subscription to Jazz Music Library for your public or university library.
For more details about the Online Jazz Festival, read the press release. And be sure to mark you calendars for May 12-14 and join us at http://alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm.
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