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Sadko's World of Music

Broadcasting to you live from beautiful downtown Thousand Palms, California, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music.


Anne of the thousand days Overture Original Soundtracks Music by Delerue, Georges, 1925- Decca [1970]
A.Papayan, Soprano Bats mez Ter (Hymn for Palm Sunday) www.clasicalarchives.com
Lusine Ghazaryan and Anahit Papayan are two young sopranos from Yerevan, Armenia. Both are students at the Yerevan State Conservatory; Ghazaryan is completing post-graduate work with Professor G. Gehamyan; Papayan is in her fourth year, studying with Professor L. Mkrtchyan. The two have been performing together since 2001, including for Yerevan television (ALM) and numerous radio broadcasts. Both are currently employed as soloists in the St.Geghard Monastery Choir, which is conducted by Papayan.

MASHTOTS Saint Mesrop (4th-5th c.)
Megha Qez Ter (Hymn of Repentence)
Voghormea indz Astvats (Hymn of Repentence)
Ankanim Aadgi Qo (Hymn of Repentence)
Voghormea (Hymn of Repentence)
Scheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908. Pilz, 1988. Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana; Anton Nanut, conductor.
Parable: A Tale of Abram and Isaac by JUDITH LANG ZAIMONT Ruskin Ensemble Michael Brewer, conductor Frances Lucey, soprano / John Aler, tenor / Randall Scarlata, baritone / Naxos
Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine. Columbia [1964] Women's Chorus of the Choral Art Society; New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor. Paul Jacobs, piano. John Canarina, ondes martenot Instruments include celesta, vibraphone, maracas, Chinese cymbals, gongs, piano, strings, and Ondes Martenot (an electronic wave generator)
A thousand and one nights, op. 346. Philips, [1964] Waltzes & polkas. Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899. Vienna Choir Boys, with orchestra; Ferdinand Grossmann, conductor.
Ten thousand times ten thousand. Columbia, [197-?] God of our fathers Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Philadelphia Brass Ensemble and Percussion; Alexander Schreiner, organ; Richard Condie, conductor.
Symphony, no. 8 in E [i.e. Eb] major: The symphony of a thousand. Columbia, [1954] Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.Vienna Kammerchor; Vienna Singakademie; Vienna Sängerknaben; Franz Schutz, organ; Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Hermann Scherchen, conductor. Veni Creator Spiritus

Monday 12 September 1910, 7.30 p.m. Built entirely of glass and steel, the vast new concert hall of the International Exhibition Centre in Munich was full to overflowing with an audience of 3,400. Facing them was a chorus of 850 (500 adults and 350 children) dressed entirely in black and white and spread across the back of a huge rostrum specially built for the occasion, as well as one of the largest orchestras ever to have been assembled since the first performance of Berlioz's celebrated Requiem: 146 players, along with eight vocal soloists and eleven brass players (eight trumpeters and three trombonists) positioned elsewhere in the hall.

They were assembled for the long-awaited first performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony. The audience included many celebrities. In addition to the entire Bavarian royal family, many of the leading figures of contemporary culture were also present: the composers Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Camille Saint-Saëns and Alfredo Casella; the writers Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Emil Ludwig, Hermann Bahr and Arthur Schnitzler; the conductors Bruno Walter, Oskar Fried and Franz Schalk; the most famous theatre director of his day, Max Reinhardt; and many many more. In the audience, the professionals were feverishly leafing through their scores, while others waited impatiently, consumed by curiosity, and still others felt certain they were about to witness another display of 'creative impotence'.