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Update for 2022/23

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Hello everyone,

After three years of posting a piece of music everyday, this site will be taking a little break from making that happen.

The PowerPoints are still available to download and will, in the main, be lined up to match most days and events in the school year – things like UK patron saints days may not link up, but most things will.

The reason for stopping daily posts is partly due to time, but mostly due to an idea I’ve had – an upgrade, if you like.

MusicOfTheDay.co.uk is currently a work in progress to replace this site. Everything that’s currently here will move to the new site – PowerPoints and all – but there will be 366 pieces of music aligned to each day of the year. I hope to get this organised, up and running and looking fab by January… but time will tell.

Until then, get in touch if I can help in any way.

Thomas

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Anneleen Lenaerts (1987-) – La Dolce Vita Suite

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Anneleen Lenaerts
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Anneleen Lenaerts is a Belgian harpist.

Lenaerts enjoyed her harp training with Lieve Robbroeckx and then at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she received the master’s degree in harp in 2008. Afterwards, she went to Paris for the ‘Cours de perfectionnement’ at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Isabelle Perrin. She also took master classes with many leading harpists. She also studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue at the Brussels Conservatory.

In December 2010 she was appointed as a solo harpist with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera.

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Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) – Somebody To Love

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Freddie Mercury
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Farrokh Bulsara, known as Freddie Mercury, was a British singer, songwriter, record producer, and lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. Regarded as one of the greatest lead singers in the history of rock music, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range. Mercury defied the conventions of a rock frontman, with his highly theatrical style influencing the artistic direction of Queen.

Born in 1946 in Zanzibar, he attended English-style boarding schools in India from the age of 8. Having studied and written music for years, he formed Queen in 1970 with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Mercury wrote numerous hits for Queen, including Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody and Don’t Stop Me Now.

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Nino Rota (1911-1979) – The Godfather Waltz

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Nino Rota
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Giovanni Rota Rinaldi, better known as Nino Rota, was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II in 1974.

During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979 – an average of 3 scores each year over a 46-year period; writing 13 in 1954 alone! Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto.

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