I speak with Red Deer Symphony Conductor Claude Lapalme about his career and what does a conductor do when he can’t conduct for a year? Also the strange life of Adolphe Sax, and the German composer who got himself on the cover of TIME magazine.
LINKS
TIME Magazine’s 1938 article featuring Richard Strauss:
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19380725,00.html
“Ben Folds Composes a Song LIVE for Orchestra In Only 10 Minutes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytUY_AwTUs
Adolphe Sax’s 201st birthday doodle:
https://www.google.com/doodles/adolphe-saxs-201st-birthday
The Metropolitan Museum has a collection of instruments associated with Sax:
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/celebrating-sax
Public Radio International’s report on Adolphe Sax
https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-12-03/meet-dangerous-belgian-who-invented-sax
Claude Lapalme is the music director of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra:
“Behind the Red the Red Door” for String quartet composed by Arthur Bachmann and presented by the RDSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX-TUNSS9dM
Claude is artistic director of the baroque ensemble Rosa Barocca:
http://www.rosabarocca.ca/home.html
Claude Lapalme’s recommendations—
Mahler Symphony No.5:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/mahler-symphony-no-5/1566087845?app=music
https://open.spotify.com/album/4HfSZiDvcUOcoaLdLpZWIP
Mahler Symphony No.4:
https://open.spotify.com/album/35QVkJzvDOxwQWRISo0Ndc
https://music.apple.com/us/album/mahler-symphony-no-4/1466028476
Corigliano Clarinet Concerto:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/barber-third-essay-corigliano-clarinet-concerto/393436361
https://open.spotify.com/album/4CBEI9htRG14HfzM1aOGuq
Liberson King Gesar:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4CBEI9htRG14HfzM1aOGuq
Vincent Ho Arctic Symphony:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2x8qSrgsS711NH93Tj4xM3
https://music.apple.com/us/album/vincent-ho-the-shaman-arctic-symphony-live/1293250081
John Estacio: Orchestral Works:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/frenergy-the-music-of-john-esacio/320290175
Jan Zelenka:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/zelenka-pisendel-concerti/361263786
Early Italian Masterpieces:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/perla-barocca-early-italian-masterpieces/913838720
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excerpt from Richard Strauss: Don Juan performed courtesy of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony
excerpt from Jakob Dont: Caprice arranged for tenor saxophone, courtesy of David Hernando Vitores
excerpt from Bach, performed by Jeremy Brown
First published June 2021