Pop Concert In Manhattan
Pop Concert In Manhattan
D'Artega and His Orchestra
Mercury Records MG 20060
1960
From the back cover: D'Artega (who chooses to drop his given names, Alfonso Armando Antonio Fernandez) has spent his musical life repeating a question to himself. Every time he hears a great classical work, he says silently, "That is beautiful. How can I bring that beauty to more people?"This unselfish challenge which he constantly places before himself accounts for D'Artega's emergence as one of the world's outstanding popularizers of classical music and composers of popular music of the fullness and flourish of the classics.
D'Artega and His Orchestra
Mercury Records MG 20060
1960
From the back cover: D'Artega (who chooses to drop his given names, Alfonso Armando Antonio Fernandez) has spent his musical life repeating a question to himself. Every time he hears a great classical work, he says silently, "That is beautiful. How can I bring that beauty to more people?"This unselfish challenge which he constantly places before himself accounts for D'Artega's emergence as one of the world's outstanding popularizers of classical music and composers of popular music of the fullness and flourish of the classics.
D'Artega was born in Spain and came to the United States as a youngster. For years he studied orchestration and composition under Boris Levenson, who had been a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakoff. Early in the days of radio, D'Artega was attracted to this new magic medium which could bring music into the homes of everyone. But he knew that the techniques of classical music, while glorious to the ears of an initiate, would be strange to millions of Americans who had never had the opportunity to develop a taste for classics. So he committed his art to the development of a style which would combine the best of the familiar, popular music, with the most attractive qualities of his first love, the classics.
That he succeeded in striking this extraordinary balance is evidenced by the outstanding parade of successes which unfolded in his career. D'Artega soon was in demand by the already giant networks to display his unusual combination of easy listening pleasure with artistic distinction. He conducted on the Jell-O Program, Your Hit Parade, Ripley's Be lieve-It-Or-Not Show, and the Cavalcade of Music. He became the director of "Pop" concerts for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Frequently he came to Carnegie Hall to conduct its famous Pop Concert Orchestra as a guest, until recently, when he was appointed its permanent conductor.
Never forgetting that the ears of most Americans were tuned to popular song, D'Artega composed for that medium, too, bringing to it his faultless taste and outstanding training. His song, "In The Blue Of The Evening", held a spot on the Hit Parade for 21 weeks. His works for symphony orchestra include "American Panorama", "Dream Concerto", "Niag ara" and the "Fire And Ice Ballet" of which parts 1 to 3 are heard on this Mercury Long Playing recording.
D'Artega portrayed the role of Peter Ilyich Tchai kovsky in the motion picture, "Carnegie Hall".
Featured in this generous concert of D'Artega and His Orchestra are his own "In The Blue Of The Evening", "Tally-Ho", "When Love Is New", "Dream- er's Serenade", "Concerto Pathetique", featuring the piano artistry of Rosa Linda, "Wedding Of The Violins", "Remembrance", "Tulips In Springtime", "Dagger Dance" and the three parts of "Fire And Ice Ballet".
In The Blue Of Evening
Tally-Ho
When Love Is New
Dreamer's Serenade
Concerto Pathetique
Wedding Of The Violins
Remembrance
Tulips In Springtime
Dragger Dance
Fire And Ice Ballet – Pt. 1
Fire And Ice Ballet – Pt. 2
Fire And Ice Ballet – Pt. 3
When Love Is New
Dreamer's Serenade
Concerto Pathetique
Wedding Of The Violins
Remembrance
Tulips In Springtime
Dragger Dance
Fire And Ice Ballet – Pt. 1
Fire And Ice Ballet – Pt. 2
Fire And Ice Ballet – Pt. 3
