I don't know if it's just me, but why is it that composers, writers and other artists seem to have strained relationships with their fathers? Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart, Johan Strauss (father and son), Alexandre Dumas (father and son), Emile and David Nelligan, Richard and Franz Strauss (no relation with the other ones). My father wasn't an outdoors-man, he was more one of those “disaster” DIY kind of guys… But one thing my dad really enjoyed were long walks and, in the summer, baseball.
Read my English commentary @ http://itywltmt.blogspot.ca/2011/06/montage-10-fathers-day.html, details @ https://archive.org/details/pcast-010-playlist (ITYWLTMT Podcast # 10 - June 17, 2011)
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FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE
ITYWLTMT Podcast #10
Project 366 Listener Guide #346
“Father's Day”
Yusuf ISLAM (*1948)
Father and Son (1970)
Cat Stevens, vocalist and guitar
Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901)
“Di Provenza il mar il suol” (The sea and soil of Provence), from Act II of La Traviata (1853)
Rudolf Knoll, Baritone
Nuremburg Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Von Pitamic, conducting
André GAGNON (*1939)
Selections from Act II of Nelligan, «opéra romantique» (1988-90) [Orch: Gilles Ouellet]
“Where were you the last three days” and “Quand tu es né” (When you were born)
Dominique Côté, vocalist
Pierre Flynn, vocalist
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Jacques Lacombe, conducting
Albert VON TILZER (1878–1956)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1908)
Carly Simon, vocalist
Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732-1809)
String Quartet in B Flat major, op. 1, no. 1 [Hob. III/1] “The Hunt”
Caspar Da Salo Quartet
Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Third movement (Scherzo. Presto) from the Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “The Trout”Sir Clifford Curzon, piano
Members of the Vienna Octet
Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)
Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 11
Dale Clevenger, horn
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, conducting
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Selections from the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
Dimitri Shostakovich Jr, piano
I Musici de Montréal
Maxim Shostakovich, conducting
Johann STRAUSS I (1804-1849)
Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer, conducting
Neil Percival YOUNG (*1945)
Old Man (1972)
Neil Young, vocalist and guitar