About 5,000 spirituals, which are distinguished from gospel songs in part because their authors are unknown, are known to exist today. Those songs, Carter says, played a large part in shaping American music of all genres in the 20th century. Each module below includes Carter's commentary on each spiritual, his performances, and the performances of other musicians' renditions of that same song. 

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Ave Maria - Franz Schubert (śpiewa Elżbieta Towarnicka)

Movements 3. Rondeau and 5. Passepied from Telemann's Suite in E minor for flust and strings, from Tafelmusik. Catherine Bull and Janice Joyce, flutes. Julie Andrijeski, Valerie Arsenault, violins. Stephanie Vial, cello. The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, in concert February 13, 2011, at Roswell Presbyterian Church, Roswell, Georgia.

Telemann Suite for Flutes and Strings from Tafelmusik. 5. Passepied

A very rough demo of Moon River, played on my new Laubin Oboe. Dedicated to Amigo Boyd (1993-2015), my 17 year old Chihuahua. 

Moon River

Victoria Bragin - F. Chopin: Polonaise E flat minor op. 26 no. 2

The Godfather Waltz

Claire de Lune - Debussy

What if the first question we asked on a date were, "How are you crazy? I'm crazy like this"? Philosopher and writer Alain de Botton's essay "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" was, amazingly, the most-read article in The New York Times in the news-drenched year of 2016. As people and as a culture, he says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. How might our relationships be different — and better — if we understood that the real work of love is not in the falling, but in what comes after?

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Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships

Sonata 46 for violin and classical guitar

Sandra Haniszewska - Violin
Tomasz Kandulski - Classical Guitar

I was attending music school as an undergraduate in 1998 at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, Matthew Gould (of Duo 46) was attending as a Doctoral student in guitar and living in Austin with his partner, violinist Beth Schneider. They had started Duo 46 maybe a few years before this. I was hanging out with them a lot in those days - just going over to their apartment or whatever. One day, Matt said to me, "Hey man, why don't you write us a piece?", and I said, "Umm.. ok."

At this point, I don't think they expected much. They hadn't had that many pieces written for them yet, and I was just starting as a composer, only in my second year of school. I decided I wanted to write something that would really show off what they could do technically and musically, and that would leave audiences breathless.

Not knowing how to begin, I lifted a line from a piece that I had just written - a solo flute piece titled "The Five Rings of Miyamoto Musashi". That became the opening line of the piece. Then, inspired by the one movement sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, I wrote the piece based on that line. The piece is full of things that I was just discovering and becoming influenced by at the time: baroque sonatas, renaissance lute music (hence the "lute" tuning of the guitar), the tangos of Piazzolla as well as the ever-present rock and heavy metal that has always been part of my music. Since Duo 46 premiered the piece in 1999, Sonata 46 has become one of my most frequently and widely performed pieces.

Notes

Sonata 46 (Haniszewska-Kandulski Duo)

Flight of the Bumblebee

Markus Gottschlich- piano
Federico Britos- violin
Scott Whitney- bass
J.J. Freire - drums

Composition and arrangement by Markus Gottschlich

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