Pomp and Circumstance #1

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies.




March No. 1 was composed in 1901 and "Dedicated to my friend Alfred E. Rodewald and the members of the Liverpool Orchestral Society".

The instrumentation is: 2 piccolos (2nd ad lib.), 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in A, bass clarinet in A, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in F, 2 cornets in A, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani (3), percussion (bass drum, cymbals, triangle, side drum, jingles, and tambourine ad lib.), 2 harps, organ — it appears in the final statement of the grand tune — and strings.

It had its premiere, along with the more reserved second March, played by the Liverpool Orchestral Society conducted by Alfred Rodewald, in Liverpool on 19 October 1901. Both marches were played two days later at a London Promenade Concert in the Queen's Hall London, conducted by Henry Wood, with March No. 1 played second, and the audience "...rose and yelled... the one and only time in the history of the Promenade concerts that an orchestral item was accorded a double encore."

Dead And Lovely?

She was a middle class girl / She was in over her head
She thought she would / Stand up in the deep end

He had a bullet proof smile / He had money to burn
She thought she had the moon / In her pocket

But now she's dead / She's so dead
Forever dead and lovely now

A Truly Grand Finale

Music For Montserrat was a concert, held on September 15, 1997 at the Royal Albert Hall. Musicians came together for Montserrat. Phil Collins, Ray Cooper, Carl Perkins, Jimmy Buffett, Mark Knopfler, Sting, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and more.

That is how the chorus is done, guys.

Spell Of The Gypsies

 Music video of recorded time-lapsed imagery over skies of Finland and Sweden, set to Buckethead's Spell Of The Gypsies from the album Electric Tears.

Glenn Gould plays Bach

Genius. What else?

Classical Music 101: Horror and Suspense

Popular classical music used in horror and suspense films. Thirty to sixty second clips of 12 popular classical selections.

Song List
1. "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565" by J.S. Bach.
Movies - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Fantasia, Gremlins 2, Rollerball, Sour Grapes, 2000 Leagues Under the Sea

2. Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K626, Dies Irae
Movies - Amadeus, The Big Lebowski

3. Verdi's Requiem, Dies Irae

4. Carl Orff's "O Fortuna" in Carmina Burana.
Movies - The Doors, Excalibur, Natural Born Killers

5. Mussorgsky's Night on the Bald Mountain
Movies: Asylum


6. Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King
Mood: Sneaking Around and Stalking
This well-known piece has seen extensive use in movies and commercials, usually in accordance with an ominous event. In the Hall of the Mountain King was famously used in the 1931 film M, in which Peter Lorre's character whistles it. The song also appears during the teaser trailer of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Funny Games, Bride Wars and Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian. It is also played over the end credits of the Woody Allen film Scoop.

7. PROMETHEUS by Alexander Scriabin


8. LA MER (The Sea) by Claude Debussy, 'Dialogue du vent et de la mer' (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea)


9. THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN by Bela Bartok, perhaps one of the most truly terrifying works in the classical repertoire. With shrieking strings, extended trombone glissandi and a chilling wordless chorus.


10. 'Mars, the Bringer of War' from THE PLANETS by Gustav Holst


11. FESTE ROMANE (Roman Festivals) by Ottorino Respighi


12. Gnomus by Mussorgsky from Pictures at an Exhibition

Gimme Some Loving

Arms Concert 9/20/83 London.