Sunday, 9 June 2019

Mozart Group

The Mozart Group uses a range of items to make music, whilst playing well-known tunes.
Try this at home with a balloon. 
Can you play part of a song? Try a simple tune, perhaps a nursery rhyme. 

What do you think of this partial rendition of The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, and then Habanera, (most famously sung by Maria Callas 2:03) from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet (1838-1875)? 

Bizet, who was a heavy smoker, died of a heart attack aged 36, three months after the première of Carmen, unaware that his opera would become a spectacular and enduring success. His other works also began to be performed more frequently in the 20th century and he is now recognised as a composer of brilliance and originality.


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