O, Little Town of Bethlehem
Key change and reharmonization

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Played for a beautiful senior flute recital yesterday at Union Adventist University.

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Last month’s Guess the Composer was Ethel Smyth! Enjoy listening to her “Moods of the Sea.”

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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Final clue!

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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Clue No. 3!

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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Clue No. 3!

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“Urbisluxgender” by #MJosephWillette, performed by #MargotPorter (voice)., #BridgettHill (flute), and #JeremyDuck/me (piano)

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#GuessTheComposer: Each week, I’m sharing a clue about a composer. On April 1, I’ll reveal who this month’s composer is! Reply with your guess.

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The shirt I wore today featuring Ukrainian composers.

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#GuessTheComposer: This month, I’ll be sharing weekly clues about a composer. Take a guess who the composer is, and I’ll reveal the answer on April 1.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: In 1908, Hubert Parry earned the distinction of being the only composer ever elected as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Arcangelo Corelli is credited as the earliest composer to fully apply tonality as the basis for his music.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: At 2 years old, Jean #Langlais III became blind due to #glaucoma and attended the National Institute for Blind Children. He went on to study #organ, #composition, and #improvisation at the #ParisConservatoire.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s “Esmeralda” is based on Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” and “Rusalka” features several similarities to Dvořák’s opera of the same name.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Jørgen Bentzon’s Op. 1 is a set of variations on Chopin’s Mazurka in F Major Op. 68, No. 3. He also wrote an opera titled “Saturnalia.”

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Leopold Godowsky’s “Studies on #Chopin Études” are some of the most difficult works for the piano. Several are for left hand alone, are transposed to a more difficult key, or combine multiple Chopin etudes in 1.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Adele aus der Ohe was friends with Tchaikovsky and played his Piano Concerto No. 1 at Carnegie Hall’s inaugural concert, which was conducted by Tchaikovsky on May 7, 1891.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Abel Decaux is best known for his piano suite “Clairs de Lune,” one of the earliest known dodecaphonic pieces. He is often referred to as the “French Schoenberg.”

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Billy Goldenberg studied physics and mathematics; but after an ulcer led to him to quit his job as a computer programmer, he worked as a pianist, arranger, and film composer.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Albert Ellmenreich, composer of the well-known teaching piece “The Spinning Song,” was an actor who traveled throughout Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, and Latvia.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: In 1999, Alfred Desenclos's Requiem Mass was plagiarized note for note by Tristan Foison. The work had its "American premiere" in 2001, after which the piece’s duplication was discovered.

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A bit Chopin’s C Minor Prelude as used by Rachmaninoff in his set of variations.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Yamaoka Akira originally wanted to be an interior designer; he is best-known for writing video game and film music for the Silent Hill.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Biagio Marini’s innovations to violin music include an increased range, the slur, double and triple stops, and the first explicitly notated tremolo. Additionally, he wrote a sonata without a single cadence.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Canadian composer Ann Southam was praised by the Globe and Mail for “blazing a trail for women composers in a notoriously sexist field.”

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Alessandro Melani’s opera “L’empio punito” was the first opera on the subject of Don Juan.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Blas Galindo formed the “Grupo de los cuatro” with Daniel Ayala, Salvador Contreras, and José Pablo Moncayo in an effort to use indigenous Mexican musical materials and elements in their music.

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