S2.E102 Youthful exuberance with Szymonovsky, Schubert joy in C major symphony, Tchaikovsky's ode to June, and some quirkiness with Copeland's Dance of Mockery.

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Welcome back to Perfect Pitch with Nick Healy Hutchinson and his fresh approach to the world of classical music. Whether you're an expert or a beginner, old or young, Perfect Pitch has something for everyone.

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Every time I start a new episode, it's a bit like wondering how to open a conversation. The obvious difference is that this is very much one-sided. So let me just say why you can't interrupt. That wherever you are listening, I count it as a huge privilege that you allow me to all day and resolve. Please do give me your feedback from time to time. You have no idea what a wonderful thing it is. The work of an enthusiastic young man who wants to disappear a lot of human emotions, especially in nostalgia. What am I going to do? It's not paying very often. And Ukraine does not have any world of the time composers. We have now reached a point where the invasion has outlasted the length of the first world war.

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It has quite an exclusive opening.

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He was using it to demonstrate the effect of lifting one cheek off the piano stool as you played. This simple action would enable a greater flow-in outcome. But I've since heard it used in the context of enthusiastic orchestras as well. The first time it really struck me was when I saw Bernard Hyde conducting Shubert's great major symphony with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. A full 50-minute and quite exhausting workout, diffusing joy in every bar. In this second movement, another like we didn't say another hand on a motor. The forward motion is a parent from the offer. You'll know exactly what I mean when you hear it. Forgive me if I digress with a bit of trivia for a moment, but all this talk of one buttock playing reminds me of a little family anecdote. The growth of text messaging has brought with it a burgeoning of abbreviations. TBH, IMHO, FWIW, POV, etc. But long before this, many of us had our own abbreviations for particular situations. FHB, family holdback at mealtimes, was a fairly common one, although it's never once been necessary since I got married. UFL was one I learned from my landlord at university, standing for ultra-filthy look used when somebody had overstepped the mark. But in my own family, we had a particular favourite, which stood for slightly raised arm. From an early age, my father had instilled in us the habit of standing when a lady came into the room. And over a period of a number of years, we came to notice that it was universally greeted with the insistence Please, don't get out there So we developed this code of SRB. My father would whisper these words with perfect timing, and we would demonstrate an intention to stand fully expecting not to have to do so. It worked every single time. Back to what we're here for the music. And we are in the month of June, so it's time to dip into Tchaikovsky's seasons once more. The Baccarole is a favourite of many, and it's not hard to see why. It has an air of solitude about it, with a brief burst of brightness. Here, once again, is Vladimir Ashkenazi. Because it sounds so completely out of context. It was just a quirky impulse. And this is certainly quirky. Aaron Copeland's Dance Symphony concludes with a movement titled Dance of Mockery. And that's exactly what the music does. Lots of juxtapositions, lots of unusual rhythms, a touch of demonic, totally resolved with playfulness, unusual harmonies, and with an unmistakable element of jazz. And there's more than a nod, I think, to Stravinsky's Right of Spring from 15 Years Previously, which I talked about all the way back in episode 20. It won't be to everybody's liking, I know. But it's only five minutes. So I hope you'll be open-minded enough to give it a go. And while you may not actually like it, there's no denying it's very clever. And on the Symphony Orchestra, play Copeland's Dancer Mockery conducted by the composer himself.

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