Day 4 of #QuarantineMusic, groups and individuals sharing performances with the world, a thread. 1. (Polish?) Musicians in Quarantine phone in a sequential performance of Pachabel's "Canon," March 19, 2020:
2. Another sequential performance, Alon Goldstein and his University of Missouri students sequentially perform a famous Bach Prelude, March 28, 2020 (an interesting mix of keyboards and styles):
3. In "phone-in" performances, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra did fragments from Sergei Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet," April 2, 2020:
4. The Arctic Philharmonic (Norway) phoned-in a virtuoso performance of Grieg's "Holberg Suite," March 24, 2020:
5. The trumpeters of the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau played "Irische Segenswünsche" and sent greetings to the world from their "home offices." March 23, 2020:
6. Musicians of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra phoned-in a performance of "Appalachian Spring": "No matter what distance keeps us apart, we’ll still find ways to make music together and celebrate the gifts of spring." March 22, 2020:
7. The Münchener Kammerorchester phoned-in a performance of the Norwegian composer Gjermund Haugen's "Tjønneblomen," March 23, 2020:
8. The Delirium Musicum chamber ensemble (on 3 continents,in living and hotel rooms,parks, using only their phones), phoned-in a version of the 1939 anti-Fascist (and lately, anti-#COVID19) song, "Bella Ciao," on April 3, 2020:
9. The San Francisco Opera for its part did a phone-in series, "Odes to Joy." The second featured pianist Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad and soprano Anne-Marie MacIntosh, who presented Sergei Rachmaninoff's "U majevó akná" ("Before My Window"), April 2, 2020:
10. The Dublin Youth Choir had 60 of its members (from Youth Choir, Chamber Choir and DYC Singers) phone in a performance of "Nader My God By U," by James Stevens, March 24, 2020:
11. Media Roedean School did a virtual performance of Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah," March 27, 2020:
12. The Neuer Kammerchor Berlin also phoned-in a performance, March 21, 2020:
13. Now for soloists doing quarantine performances. Geraldine Mendez has been uploading Bach's Goldberg Variations, one variation at a time. Here's her March 23, 2020 upload (Variatio 5 -Goldberg Variationen BWV 988):
14. Pacific Symphony's Principal Cellist Warren Hagerty performing J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prelude, March 20, 2020:
15. Zak Pleet performing Jorge Cardoso's "Cancion" on guitar, March 20, 2020:
16. Churches may be closed down during quarantine but you can still record yourself on the organ: Thomas Joyce playing Scarlatti at Trinity Episcopal Church, Santa Barbara, CA, March 31, 2020:
17. Nature (Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve) provides a backdrop for Bach's Suite No. 2 in D minor for unaccompanied Cello, performed by Jo de Mars on March 28, 2020:
17. A Scandinavian, Jonathan Grönlund, performs Alphonse Hasselman's "La Source Op.44" on the harp, March 29, 2020:
18. The marimba produces a beautiful sound, especially for Bach pieces, such as his G Major Suite for solo cello performed by Erin Jorgensen on March 23, 2020 in a very dark room:
19. Bach is truly versatile as this electric guitar rendition of his Prelude in G Major by Pedro Pires (and a creepy audience of toys!) proves, April 5, 2020:
20. Popular musicians could turn standards into classical pieces, as Gershwin did with "Embraceable You" from his "7 Virtuoso Etudes," performed by
Ossi Tanner on April 2, 2020:
Ossi Tanner on April 2, 2020:
21. In a jazzier vein is Mike Jones with "Tangerine," April 3, 2020:
22. But back to Bach, his "Siciliano," performed by Paulo Henrique Baldassi, March 29, 2020:
23. Even without a human accompanist, vocalists like the soprano Maruja Cancino, performing Gershwin's "Summertime," still want to sing, March 31, 2020:
24. Jazz can be phoned in, as The 1000 Streets' Orchestra meets Les Babettes proved with "Swingin' On Nothing" on March 23, 2020:
25. Dance Clubs like everyone else, are having reunions on Zoom. The Swing Buffalo group got together for a "Quarantine Shim Sham" on March 31, 2020:
26. I'm not sure about this balcony performance of "Ode to Joy," March 22, 2020 (it includes something that seems to be a miniature bagpipe!):
27. Orchestras can do contemporary sounds too, such as this jamming session by the Coalition Orchestra, March 24, 2020:
28. With restaurants closed, what's the organist of an organ-themed pizzeria (!) to do? Perform in an empty restaurant, of course. March 24, 2020 (over an hour long!):
29. Which is preferable to getting cabin fever, as the oboist Daniel Goncharov documented on March 31, 2020:
30. Which has led to things like the toilet paper cello challenge, here taken up by Charlotte Vegan on March 19, 2020:
Here was my first installment of #QuarantineMusic last Friday: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1245938…
Second installment of #QuarantineMusic last Saturday: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1246270…
Third installment of #QuarantineMusic yesterday: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1246614…
