Hi, I just stumbled across this website and forum after about two months now of listening to unsung composers. Here's my path.
A friend of a friend on facebook posted something about a Dora Bright piece that KUSC in Los Angeles had just aired. Despite my four years as the classical music host on my college radio station, I'd never heard of her and immediately found a recording on youtube. Youtube then proceded to serve me up either a bottomless playlist or a bottomless mix that seems to be entirely composed (yup, I went there) of unsung composers' music, mostly symphonies and concertos and mostly Romantic.
I'm actually not sure how to link to the mix itself without linking to the piece that happens to be playing from it this moment, so here you go. I'm not particularly recommending what's playing now (in fact I'm only three minutes in) but this is the playlist link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlFunhbbCM&list=RDEMAwaN0RVVx6HGC_YYHkoFOA&index=27
So how did I get to this website? One recent piece that came up was by Hilding Rosenberg, who of course I've also never heard of. And as my mom's last name is Rosenberg, I did what we do in these cases, googling "Hilding Rosenberg Jewish". Strangely, or perhaps not, the first hit was at the National Library of Israel, a website I generally visit when I want to find recordings from around the Jewish world of liturgical poetry (piyutim). The wikipedia link didn't mention "Jewish" so I continued on down the list, where the second result was to a ten-year old Unsung Composers thread giving his entire catalog. Still don't know if he's Jewish, but apparently he did write Four Jewish Songs for voice and orchestra, op. 89. No idea how to find a recording of that piece, but here we are. If the youtube link ever runs dry I'll start picking my way though some of the fora here.
A friend of a friend on facebook posted something about a Dora Bright piece that KUSC in Los Angeles had just aired. Despite my four years as the classical music host on my college radio station, I'd never heard of her and immediately found a recording on youtube. Youtube then proceded to serve me up either a bottomless playlist or a bottomless mix that seems to be entirely composed (yup, I went there) of unsung composers' music, mostly symphonies and concertos and mostly Romantic.
I'm actually not sure how to link to the mix itself without linking to the piece that happens to be playing from it this moment, so here you go. I'm not particularly recommending what's playing now (in fact I'm only three minutes in) but this is the playlist link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlFunhbbCM&list=RDEMAwaN0RVVx6HGC_YYHkoFOA&index=27
So how did I get to this website? One recent piece that came up was by Hilding Rosenberg, who of course I've also never heard of. And as my mom's last name is Rosenberg, I did what we do in these cases, googling "Hilding Rosenberg Jewish". Strangely, or perhaps not, the first hit was at the National Library of Israel, a website I generally visit when I want to find recordings from around the Jewish world of liturgical poetry (piyutim). The wikipedia link didn't mention "Jewish" so I continued on down the list, where the second result was to a ten-year old Unsung Composers thread giving his entire catalog. Still don't know if he's Jewish, but apparently he did write Four Jewish Songs for voice and orchestra, op. 89. No idea how to find a recording of that piece, but here we are. If the youtube link ever runs dry I'll start picking my way though some of the fora here.