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Halloween Music 2022

October 31, 2022
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Catacombs from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns Dies Irae Dreams of a Witches’ Sabbath from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg Jaws by John Williams Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky The Addams Family The […]

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It’s Halloween: Toccata and Fugue in d minor by J.S Bach

October 31, 2022
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    Johann Sebastian Bach’s towering monument of organ music, with its deep sense of foreboding, will forever be associated with Halloween. The piece is recognizable to most and has been featured in many films, including: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Black Cat (1934), Disney’s Fantasia (1940), Sunset Boulevard (1950), 20,000 Leagues Under the […]

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It’s Sunday Again

October 30, 2022
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Halloween Music: Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky

October 29, 2022
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Night on Bald Mountain refers to a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a “musical picture”, St. John’s Eve on Bald Mountain on the theme of a witches’ sabbath occurring on St. John’s Eve, which he completed on that very night, June 23, in 1867. Interestingly, […]

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Trunk or Treat Near Greenbriar

October 28, 2022
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  This is an event open to local families, happening rain or shine. Pender UMC 12401 Alder Woods Drive Fairfax, VA

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Halloween Music: Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod

October 27, 2022
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The Funeral March of a Marionette (Marche funèbre d’une marionnette) is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was written in 1872 for solo piano and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which originally aired from 1955 to 1965. In 1871-72, while […]

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Halloween Music: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns

October 25, 2022
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Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition. In 1874, the composer expanded and reworked […]

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Halloween Music: Dreams of a Witches’ Sabbath

October 24, 2022
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The final movement is the best known part of the symphony, thanks to its use in the Julia Roberts movie, Sleeping With The Enemy. It features a four-part structure, which Hector Berlioz described in his own program notes from 1845 as follows: “He sees himself at a witches’ Sabbath, in the midst of a hideous gathering […]

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Halloween Music: The Purple People Eater

October 21, 2022
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    Parents might remember this one – or their grandparents!  No one else has captured a monster quite so groovy as the one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.  This is available for students to play in the Halloween Songbook (Easy Piano). The original, by Sheb Wooley   From the movie, Contact, by Jimmy Buffet […]

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Halloween Music: Dies Irae

October 20, 2022
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  Although not technically a “halloween piece” this very old Gregorian Chant (from the 300s!) is used in a lot of music that sounds spooky.  Dies Irae is a Latin term that means “Day of Wrath”. The words of Dies irae have often been set to music as part of a Requiem service. In some […]

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    On May 13, 2023 Brian Stevenson, Pender Music Director, produced our annual Spring Concert. Heidi had just been hired as Pender’s pianist on May 11, 2023 and she agreed to play her audition piece, “Advent Medley” for our concert.
  • ☦️ Hymn History: The Church’s One Foundation
    Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), then a newly ordained curate at New Windsor Parish Church, wrote “The Church’s One Foundation” in 1866 as a direct lyrical commentary to a controversy in the Church of South Africa, part of the Anglican Communion. The controversy was between Bishop John William Colenso of Natal (an early apologist for the […]
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  • 🇺🇦 Don’t Get Around Much Anymore by Duke Ellington from Concert for Ukraine
    “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” is a jazz standard written by composer Duke Ellington. The song was originally entitled “Never No Lament” and was first recorded by Duke Ellington and his orchestra on May 4, 1940.
  • 🇺🇦 Sonata Latino: Bossa Merengova by Mike Mower from Concert for Ukraine
    The Pender Concert Supporting Ukraine on April 23 featured Liz Sellers on piano, Brian on harp, and local professional musicians, including woodwind quintet, drums, organ, guitar, flute, penny whistle, singing and violin. Concert repertoire included: Harp arrangements by Debussy, Piano trio of Jazz/Baroque, Flute Concertino by Chaminade, Woodwind Quintet with music of Duke Ellington, The […]
  • 🇺🇦 “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio” by Claude Bolling from Concert for Ukraine
    Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio by Claude Bolling “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano (aka Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio) is a “crossover” composition, synthesizing Baroque and swing era jazz elements, by the jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling. The composition, originally written in 1973, is a suite of seven movements, […]
  • 🇺🇦 Clair de lune by Claude Debussy from Concert for Ukraine
    Brian Stevenson, Director of Music Ministries at Pender UMC in Fairfax, VA, performed Clair de lune from Debussy’s Suite bergamasque during Pender’s new Concert Series which began on April 23, 2022. ‘Clair de lune’, meaning moonlight, was written by the Impressionist French composer Claude Debussy. It is the third movement of a four-movement work, Suite […]
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  • 🇺🇦 Flute Concertino in D major, Op. 107 by Cécile Chaminade from Concert for Ukraine
    Cécile Chaminade’s Flute Concertino in D major, Op. 107, was composed in 1902 for flute and piano and later arranged by herself for flute and orchestra.The piece remains a standard and popular part of the flute repertoire.

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