Author: bigmikehouston
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Happy Birthday George Gershwin
On September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, NY was born one of the greatest American composers [maybe the most popular and beloved], the virtuoso pianist, George Gershwin [born Jacob Gershovitz]. This son of Jewish immigrants, teamed with his brother Ira Gershwin, to produce some of the greatest broadway musical tunes ever. Gershwin also composed solo piano […]
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Joshua Rings The Bell At This HSO Concert
Classical music fans in Houston, Texas are excited with the beginning of the 2022/2023 concert season as the world class Houston Symphony Orchestra will be performing in Jones Hall, with our exciting new director, Maestro Juraj Valčuha, taking the helm in his initial season in Houston. On this weekend, the second weekend of the new […]
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Happy Birthday To Two Great Americans
On this Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, I say,Happy Birthday to my wife, Sheralyn! Sheralyn, the fetching Mrs. B., is my love, my life, my wife. On March 8, 1982, God blessed me with a wonderful wife, Sheralyn, without who, forty years later, I would be lost in this world. Sheralyn and I were blessed with the […]
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Autumn Strings
We are about to enter the first week of Fall or Autumn, with the Autumnal Equinox on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022! Going along with my classical music blog, there is no better way to enter Autumn than with the Baroque master of the seasons, the Italian virtuoso violinist and great composer, Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi’s most famous […]
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Mendelssohn, But Not Felix
I was listening to All Classical Portland about a week ago [in February of 2018] and heard this string quartet I hadn’t heard before and I thought to myself, ‘that sounds like Mendelssohn’. I was right, it was Mendelssohn. But I was also wrong, as it wasn’t Felix Mendelssohn [one of my favorite composers] who […]
Classical Music With Big Mike 