Name: THE PINES OF ROME
Duration: 19 min 30 s
Channel: Ottorino Respighi - 1924
Description: I-PINES OF THE VILLA BORGHESE, II-PINES NEAR A CATACOMB, III-PINES OF THE JANICULUM, IV-PINES OF THE APPIAN WAY. AN EPIC SONG FROM THE ROMAN TRILOGY OF SYMPHONIC POEMS BY OTTORINO RESPIGHI. PERFORMED DURING MY SENIOR YEAR IN THE TMEA ALL STATE BAND.

THE PINES OF ROME

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I-PINES OF THE VILLA BORGHESE, II-PINES NEAR A CATACOMB, III-PINES OF THE JANICULUM, IV-PINES OF THE APPIAN WAY. AN EPIC SONG FROM THE ROMAN TRILOGY OF SYMPHONIC POEMS BY OTTORINO RESPIGHI. PERFORMED DURING MY SENIOR YEAR IN THE TMEA ALL STATE BAND.

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Symphonic Band Performances

Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi

Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.

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Genre

Classical • Classical General

Charts

Peak #32

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Ottorino Respighi - 1924

Rights

public domain

Uploaded

January 13, 2010

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MP3 18.7 MB • 134 kbps • 19:30

Story behind the song

This is performed by the TMEA All State Symphonic Band, conducted by the famed director, Frederick Fennell. This is from my final year, my senior year in the band.

Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem The Pines of Rome was the second in a triptych of works paying tribute to The Eternal City. The piece's first movement shows children playing outside the Villa Borghese, the opulent home of one of Rome's most prominent 17th-century families. Pines Near a Catacomb depicts a solitary church in the middle of a Roman field dotted with pine trees, the section's ominous melody building to a sweeping climax. In the third movement, Respighi paints a musical portrait of the Pines of the Janiculuma at night. The Janiculum was one of Rome's seven hills, so named because it was the site of temple of Janus, the Roman god of portals and the new year. In this section, Respighi specified the use of a gramophone recording of birdsong to capture the atmosphere perfectly. The work closes with a portrait of the pine tree-lined Appian Way, the military road of the Roman Republic. The Roman legions emerge from the mists, and the orchestra mirrors their approach, growing louder as the soldiers get closer to the Capitoline Hill. As the movement closes, the victorious warriors, led by the Republican Consul, arrive at the Capitol with the rising sun behind them, their glory reflected in the work's jubilant closing pages. The Pines of Rome was, and continues to be, a great success and popular favorite, so much so that Respighi used the money he made from it to buy a villa, which he appropriately named The Pines.

Respighi was, after opera master Giacomo Puccini, Italy's most famous composer of the 20th century. He used the modern orchestra to evoke the world around him with cinematic sweep and Technicolor vividness. His triptych of symphonic works inspired by Rome (The Fountains of Rome, The Pines of Rome, and Roman Festivals) brought him international renown and financial success (he named his estate "The Pines" in honor of the music that allowed him to buy it).

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