Two Hundred Years of Woodwinds; 12; C. Nielsen: Contemporary Writing

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col neilson the great danish composer wrote until in with one of many twentieth century composers attracted to would win seventeenth of musical expression nearly nineteen twenties he wrote a woodwind quintet in the last movement that uses this very thing and trying to introduce fractions now there's no religious significance and the houston andrew day nearly two million a huge very well for the variation form when we play music late in the woodwind quintet of years and we hope that you will recognize the organ like quality that a period when it wouldn't play an era in the larger forms of musical composition this man is attracted to the symphony as a means of expression you as a versatile composer and also very prolific besides the
six great symphonies he wrote arcos ballet corps works with orchestra and lots of chamber music in many works for solo instruments which included of course some so wind instruments but that's a fatality was not confined to a beautiful composition nielsen was for many years the conductor of the royal danish orchestra and he was also outstanding in the field of the musical education as the director of the royal conservatory in open air even among those sort you mentioned john there's a full concerto you know something like the very time that with the trench earlier had made the woodwinds and prominent in any group of instruments and chamber music and get ideas spread until now composer to not like the world write the woodwind into their
music in their own style so that certain to create music that is typical of their own locale i think if you can think that is a perfect example of this clapton chose sir or your production music that every year a curious beginning things that were new security only category that they've made loans and the army was bedridden mother brought the region many songs which he indicated on the violent without any previous instruction one of his father was so impressed with that voice the temple or schoolteacher and the bubbly at fourteen which finally when the military band currently of the view of where the age of eighteen he was introduced to families they got a range for him to be accepted at the royal conservatory copenhagen
farley and the ocean vanish to the contrary some motive out of civilians in finland then review norway oh literally a national hero they have managed to capture in their music the spirit of scandinavia great artists earn your to glaciers and the loneliness of man against nature you remember when we made up trip to iceland in nineteen fifty four an ambulance and add that as we emerge from the plane first question was that we have a nielsen when the number of the law while they respect the memory of the man and rightly so everybody is familiar with the musical composition titled songs without words someone once said that musical a party sometimes create words without song the best description of a
piece of music to play so what a circle of light danish folk music as of labor all until it isn't complicated it always floats or strides it has a certain bluntness yet it can't be gentlemen soothing in a masculine and sentimental way the idea of a woodwind were camden county ocean when he heard his friends of the copenhagen woodwind quintet reversing mozart and in nineteen twenty two he wrote a delectable wind quintet it is completely beneath him feeling yet it is full of mozart he integrates and the open heart of humor of height and now the philadelphia woodwind quintet who performed the first movement marked allegro then mother awful again yeah
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the second movement of a huge imprint that invisible minuet began with a duet between the clarinet and the bassoon then later the deal will have the honor and gradually overthrowing him i believe that them outside influences particularly evident in this minuet although it is still unmistakably man i need
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and i knew and i knew whoa ooh whoa own they really more produces more about you in this movement nielsen tries to imitate the sounds of nature and life says this is really the biggest harlequin that those back to molt their kind of nature music the verdict then by using the english horn instead of the
overall name which is the same and they will put on the organ the new program woo woo oo the law no
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nielsen thinks the screen and he has a set of variations which you might say a personalized in character for example the first variation is played by the oval in a rather whimsical creatures that way and then we have a set of three which are a lot of fun the climatic scenes a few who has an impish fellow who irritates the grumpy vest you wear in the land and they can pick one and argument which is only subtle when the gentle who steps in to make peace after this has been accomplished the best soup where sort of spaces case and apologizes for losing his temper then the french horn plays a wonderful variation all alone the nineteen eighties there is a little march which is playful and cowboy
and then we return to those beautiful hymn tune and then a note the great actual patients moving knew the aisle mm hmm
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- Episode Number
- 12
- Episode
- C. Nielsen: Contemporary Writing
- Producing Organization
- WHYY (Radio station : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Contributing Organization
- Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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- cpb-aacip/75-698672bd
- NOLA Code
- THYW
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This episode begins with a discussion of various types of sound, demonstrated with one instrument-the electric organ. There is a discussion and performance of the Woodwind Quintet of Carl Nielsen. Then, nationalism in music is discussed. It is called a sentimental aspect of romanticism, beginning as nostalgia or homesickness. Later, it took the form of joy in old customs, in country dances, in operas representing the peace and joy of simple village life. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- In this series, a famous group of professional musicians traces the development of woodwinds in music through discussion and performance. Everything concerned with woodwinds from model of the earliest instruments to techniques of playing modern compositions is covered. Mostly, the episodes consist of approximately three parts performance to one part discussion of history and technique. However, the series also includes interviews with prominent composers and musicians and employs photo montages of famous composers during the playing of their works. The series was produced at WHYY-TV in Philadelphia. The 13 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on kinescope. The Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, organized in 1950, enjoys an international reputation. All the members occupy the first chair of their respective instruments in the Philadelphia Orchestra and all are members of the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. They have appeared with great success in cities on the East Coast from Massachusetts to Alabama and also in Iceland. They have performed on radio and television and record for Columbia Records. Members of the Quintet are: Robert Cole, flute; John de Lancie, oboe; Anthony Gigliotti, clarinet; Sol Schoenbach, bassoon; and Mason Jones, horn. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1960-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Performance
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:29:59
- Credits
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Composer: Nielsen, Carl, 1865-1931
Performing Group: Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet
Producer: Burdick, Richard S.
Producer: McCarter, William
Producing Organization: WHYY (Radio station : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Two Hundred Years of Woodwinds; 12; C. Nielsen: Contemporary Writing,” 1960-00-00, Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-698672bd.
- MLA: “Two Hundred Years of Woodwinds; 12; C. Nielsen: Contemporary Writing.” 1960-00-00. Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-698672bd>.
- APA: Two Hundred Years of Woodwinds; 12; C. Nielsen: Contemporary Writing. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-698672bd