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    Books and resources - an update
    Simon Rushby
    • Jun 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    Books and resources - an update

    Recently I've been busy writing new articles and books for Music Teacher magazine and Rhinegold Education. For Music Teacher, my online...
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    Adagio Assai from Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel
    Simon Rushby
    • Mar 5, 2021
    • 2 min

    Adagio Assai from Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel

    #listeneveryday 5 Mar 2021 The final post in this current run of #listeneveryday is of one of my personal favourites,...
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    Anxiety by Astor Piazzolla
    Simon Rushby
    • Mar 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Anxiety by Astor Piazzolla

    #listeneveryday 4 Mar 2021 The Argentinian bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla grew up in New York and...
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    Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós
    Simon Rushby
    • Mar 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós

    #listeneveryday 3 Mar 2021 Sigur Rós is an Icelandic band formed in Reykjavík in 1994. Their name means 'victory rose'...
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    Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles (written by Hoagy Carmichael)
    Simon Rushby
    • Mar 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles (written by Hoagy Carmichael)

    #listeneveryday 2 Mar 2021 Songwriter and bandleader Hoagy Carmichael wrote Georgia On My Mind in 1930, while he was...
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    Larghetto from Violin Concerto in D by Beethoven
    Simon Rushby
    • Mar 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Larghetto from Violin Concerto in D by Beethoven

    #listeneveryday 1 Mar 2021 We begin this week with some long-overdue Beethoven, and in this piece find him in a...
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    What It Means To Be A Friend by Jason Robert Brown
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 26, 2021
    • 2 min

    What It Means To Be A Friend by Jason Robert Brown

    #listeneveryday 26 Feb 2021 Jason Robert Brown is a composer, pianist and conductor who was born in New York in 1970...
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    You Can Get It If You Really Want by Jimmy Cliff
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    You Can Get It If You Really Want by Jimmy Cliff

    #listeneveryday 25 Feb 2021 This iconic song is one of four written by Jimmy Cliff that featured on the soundtrack to...
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    Barcarolle by Amy Beach
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Barcarolle by Amy Beach

    #listeneveryday 24 Feb 2021 Amy Beach was an American composer who lived from 1867 to 1944, and one of the most...
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    Symphony No.5 (finale) by Dmitri Shostakovich
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 23, 2021
    • 2 min

    Symphony No.5 (finale) by Dmitri Shostakovich

    #listeneveryday 23 Feb 2021 Shostakovich was heavily criticised by Stalin's regime in the mid-1930s. In 1936 the...
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    Take Five by Dave Brubeck, as played by Michel Camilo
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    Take Five by Dave Brubeck, as played by Michel Camilo

    #listeneveryday 22 Feb 2021 Take Five appeared on Dave Brubeck's 1959 album Time Out, released in the same year as...
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    Ya Tira Tiri Ya Hamama by Rouwaida Attieh
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 19, 2021
    • 2 min

    Ya Tira Tiri Ya Hamama by Rouwaida Attieh

    #listeneveryday 19 Feb 2021 We see much about the troubles in Syria, so I wanted to bring some balance by sharing some...
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    My Funny Valentine by Rodgers and Hart, played by Miles Davis Quintet
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 18, 2021
    • 2 min

    My Funny Valentine by Rodgers and Hart, played by Miles Davis Quintet

    #listeneveryday 18 Feb 2021 I guess I'm four days late with this one, but it is one of my favourite standards and has...
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    Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations, played by Glenn Gould
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations, played by Glenn Gould

    #listeneveryday 17 Feb 2021 The story goes that Count Hermann Karl von Keyserling, a powerful 18th century diplomat,...
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    A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell

    #listeneveryday 16 Feb 2021 Just before our love got lost, you said "I am as constant as the Northern Star" And I said...
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    The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams

    #listeneveryday 15 Feb 2021 He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound, Of many links without a...
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    Send In The Clowns by Stephen Sondheim, sung by Sarah Vaughan
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    Send In The Clowns by Stephen Sondheim, sung by Sarah Vaughan

    #listeneveryday 12 Feb 2021 I wanted to include a performance by Sarah Vaughan and fully expected it to be a standard...
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    Jealous by Labrinth
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    Jealous by Labrinth

    #listeneveryday 11 Feb 2021 Labrinth is Timothy McKenzie, a Hackney-born producer, songwriter, singer and rapper who...
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    Three Romances for Violin and Piano by Clara Schumann
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 10, 2021
    • 2 min

    Three Romances for Violin and Piano by Clara Schumann

    #listeneveryday 10 Feb 2021 Clara Wieck was a German pianist and composer, born in 1819 in Leipzig. She lived with her...
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    Miserere mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Miserere mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri

    #listeneveryday 9 Feb 2021 In the 1630s, a member of the Sistine Chapel choir, Gregorio Allegri, composed a setting of...
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