Aha! This classical music binge I'm suddenly on may have added benefits.
A doctor working with cancer patients at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne has teamed up with classical musicians to create a CD designed to calm and relax patients and their families.Doctor Catherine Crock and Trio Grande have produced Hush Collection.
It is played in the hospital and is also available for sale to the public to help raise funds for research into pain management.
Dr Crock says she has noticed benefits across the board.
"We find that the children are really calm and the parents are quite relaxed," she said.
"An added benefit is that the staff are really relaxed.
"I knew we had the right sort of music when I noticed that the staff were whistling and humming along to the music as we were doing our work."
So the two latest purchases (Skrowaczewski conducting the Minnesota Orchestra in The Music of Ravel and a compilation including Rhapsody in Blue, Warsaw Concerto, El Salon Mexico, Sabre Dance, and Gershwin's Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra) will ease my pain. Good!
Posted by Linkmeister at July 21, 2004 03:12 PMGershwin: great choice! I am very partial to the Concerto in F -- it never got all the hype of Rhapsody in Blue (which is also wonderful). My college orchestra played it with a pianist who has gone on to many bigger and better things.
Posted by: Sue at July 22, 2004 08:24 AMI've always liked the Gershwins (both George and Ira).
I'm a little disappointed in the recording quality of the Ravel; either Bolero has long stretches of barely-audible strings or the mikes weren't balanced well. On the other hand, for $3.99 on the Excelsior label (which I was told is the house brand for Sam Goody), what should I have expected?
Posted by: Linkmeister at July 22, 2004 10:45 AMTrivia question, but I think you may know it, because I forgot...
In "Soylent Green" Edward G. Robinson dies listening to a beautiful classical piece..was it "Spring"?? I don't remember the composer...
toxiclabrat wonders:
Trivia question, but I think you may know it, because I forgot...
In "Soylent Green" Edward G. Robinson dies listening to a beautiful classical piece..was it "Spring"?? I don't remember the composer...
Thanks to the indispensable IMDb, we learn that
The music which played when Edward G. Robinson was "going home" was: The overture was the love theme from Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet". When the visual presentation started it was the first movement of Beethoven's "Symphony #6 (The Pastoral)". When the flock of sheep show up it switches to "Morning" from Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite #1". Finally moving in the end to "Asas Death", also from the "Peer Gynt Suite".
So it wasn't "a" beautiful classical piece, but a pastiche.
Posted by: N in Seattle at July 22, 2004 11:47 AMN's work went into more detail than mine; I found some info at FilmScoreMonthly.
Posted by: Linkmeister at July 22, 2004 12:19 PMYes!!
It was Beethoven's Symphony #6 Pastoral....
Thank you both very much!!