Compact Discoveries 61: Swingin' Classics
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:58:00
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Fred Flaxman explores Big Band-era music based on classical themes. Works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Weber are interpreted by Glenn Miller, Freddy Martin, Alvino Rey, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.
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Fred Flaxman explores Big Band-era music based on classical themes. Works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Weber are interpreted by Glenn Miller, Freddy Martin, Alvino Rey, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.
Transcript
Program 61
"Swingin' Classics"
MUSIC: Carmen Cavallaro's rendition of Mozart: Turkish March [Polydor POCP-1645, track 14] [under the following]
Welcome to Compact Discoveries. I'm your guide Fred Flaxman, and during the next hour we're going to explore "Swingin' Classics" -- Big Band-era music based on classical music. We'll hear Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as he wrote it and as interpreted by Glenn Miller. We'll hear Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian and Rimsky-Korsakoff in renditions by Glenn Miller, Freddy Martin and Alvino Rey. And we'll listen to Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey doing tunes taken from Carl von Weber and Rimsky-Korsakoff.
I hope you can stay with me for the entire hour, because this is going to be a lot of fun!
MUSIC: above piece fades out
Let's start with an excerpt from Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata, followed immediately by Glen Miller's version of the same tune...
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