A little Classical Music.
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MARS, (The Bringer of WAR) = HOLST
Mars is marked allegro and is in a relentless for most of its duration.
Although Mars is often thought to portray the horrors of mechanised warfare, it was completed before the First World War started.
The composer Colin Matthews writes that for Holst, Mars would have been "an experiment in rhythm and clashing keys", and its violence in performance "may have surprised him as much as it galvanised its first audiences".
- Although battle music had been written before, - notably by Richard Strauss in Ein Heldenleben, "it had never expressed such violence and sheer terror
Mars is marked allegro and is in a relentless for most of its duration.
Although Mars is often thought to portray the horrors of mechanised warfare, it was completed before the First World War started.
The composer Colin Matthews writes that for Holst, Mars would have been "an experiment in rhythm and clashing keys", and its violence in performance "may have surprised him as much as it galvanised its first audiences".
- Although battle music had been written before, - notably by Richard Strauss in Ein Heldenleben, "it had never expressed such violence and sheer terror
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A Fool on the Hill
A Bit of Beethoven and – a Moonlight Sonata.
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Dance of the Knights - PROKOFIEV
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A bit of Russian Ballet : =
TCHAIKOVSKY - "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" / Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet 2010
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TCHAIKOVSKY - "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" / Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet 2010
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Goin' Home
- ( Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World": II. Largo) - , Antonín Dvořák
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- ( Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World": II. Largo) - , Antonín Dvořák
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Possibly better known as "The Hovis Ad."
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