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Peter~Anthony is a freelance composer and broadcaster based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Susan Morgan:
December 11th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
What a pleasure to hear Peter Togni in the Tempo slot this week. Wish we had more time with him regularly during the week!
Best regards from Washington state.
Donna:
December 16th, 2009 at 1:57 am
I agree with Susan. It was great to have Peter Togni host Tempo last week. I made every effort to listen all week.
Lisa Bush:
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 am
Looking (and sounding) good, Peter. I’ve been following your amazing career, lo these many years, my friend. Hoping you are well at this most FESTIVE (yet again the word of the week) time of year.
Arthur Worsdale:
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Re: “Dashing Away with a Smoothig Iron”(Choral Concert, Jan 31).
. Great to hear some folk music. More?
You should hear Rutter’s arrangement of the song, featured in “The Sprig of Thyme” ,Collegium Records. Delightful!
Evelyn Myers:
May 13th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Peter: Oh, Please stay on Tempo! What a treat to have your voice and intelligent comments – and not talking to us like we were college kids. No more “bands” instead of Orchestras! Your choral program being on later cuts into church time, so have to miss half. We need to go beyond the lowest common denominator – which is where we are now. A little more class for Tempo. Most times I just turn it off as it drives me nuts!. Good luck Evelyn
Dianne Chapitis:
July 20th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Hello Peter
How soothing and uplifting to hear you this week on Tempo ! I look forward to seeing you at the Guelph Jazz Festival.
Dianne
James Buenting (I"Binting"):
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Thank you, Peter, for playing Dvorak’s “American Quartet” on Wednesday, July 21. You coincidentally described the music as being “bucolic” in contrast to much of American society today. “Bucolic”, however, would describe the setting where apparently Antonin ‘Dvorak composed this piece in the summer of 1893.
At the time he was living in the small Czech community of Spillville, as you correctly noted. Spillville is located in the northeast area of Iowa and is quite bucolic in its locale of gently rollling hills and the somewhat forrested countryside of this region.
We visited Spillville on a midwestern holiday last month and read in a tourist brochure that Dvorak received his inspiration for this piece from the neighbouring Turkey River where he is said to have fished !
St, Wenseclaus Roman Catholic Church is the building where the Dvorak family worshiped and where, from time to time, he would play the still existing organ for Masses and apparently also during his stay in the village for two weddings and a funeral.
The Dvorak home is the upstairs of what was a tinsmith operation below. The upstairs is now an interesting and well kept museum of Antonin and his life and work. It is claimed that he was so pleased with his newly found Czech community in the new world that he would have liked to have stayed “forever”.
This well marked building also contains on the first floor a fascinating collection of exquisitively carved and elaborate clocks by two farmer brothers (Frank and Joseph Bily) who left the entire collection to the town of Spillville upon their deaths in 1965 and 1964 respectively. According to local lore, Henry Ford had once offered the brothers a million dollars for one of them. The offer was turned down.
One additional note which may interest you: on the 19th of June in the Stockholm Cathedral (Lutheran) Crown Princess Victoria married Daniel Westling. Service music from this impressive event has now been released in a special CD made in the EU and produced by Ladybird AB, whose website is
http://www.ladybird.se in case you would be interested in an ecclectic and superb collection of pieces. One of them, composed espcially for the occasion, is entitled “When You Tell the World You’re Mine” by the Swedish version of Sir Elton John, Jo(e)rgen Elofsson. I believe this remarkable CD would bring pleasure to yourself and many listeners.
Thanks for your time in reading allof this and thank you for your interesting programme !
(Rev.) James Buenting
Maeve Hanna:
August 16th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Susan Morgan and Evelyn Myers’ comments strike a heartfelt chord with me! It would be so wonderful to hear your voice on Tempo instead! I couldn’t take listening to Tempo anymore this morning when Mozart was called “Wolfie”. … Looking forward to hearing you again soon Peter!!
uģis:
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:48 am
Beautiful show, as always.
A slight ethno-pedantic note …
In what way is the background, religious or otherwise, of Imants Rāmiņš [or, as you pronounce it, Imant Raminsh] “orthodox”?
siģu
virginia edman:
August 13th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Hi Peter, It was a pleasant surprise to hear you on Tempo this morning. I enjoy your choice of music. I will catch you when I can on Radio 2.
Barb:
August 17th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Hello, must tell you how much I enjoyed your program yesterday August 16. I was able to get some important paper work done while listening! I usually listen on Sunday but was pleased to hear your choice of music on a weekday. Looking forward to more.
Thank you…
Ted & Susan Radema:
September 30th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Sunday, Sept.30,’12
Just want to let you know Peter how much we enjoyed
this particular Sunday morning of Choral Concert
(Being opera lovers, how can it miss).
We look forward to our Sunday morning coffee with Radio 2. We enjoy it when you sit in for colleagues, not only for your choice of music but because we like your voice and are able to understand each word perfectly. Thank you,
Ted & Susan Radema
Phil Hughes:
October 7th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
I am currently enjoying Choral Concert via ITunes. And although I have grown quite fond of Julie Nesrallah’s enthusiasm on Tempo, it was a pleasure to hear you. As for the introductions on Choral Concert, I like them and hope you and Mr. Reilly choose to keep them.
Susan Anderson:
October 29th, 2012 at 1:53 am
Loved your Bach and Handel program today (Oct. 28), but when did Jesu Meine Freude become a cantata? It’s been a motet for as long as I’ve known it; I have a vocal score and a CD to prove it.
Dianne Kaseoru:
December 16th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Do you ever play the music of Heinavanker from
Estonia, it is a religious folk choral groupnwithnan amazing sound…love your show ..from Vt..Happy Holidays, DianneK
Rosemarie Sherban:
December 30th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Thank you for having Velvet Shoes on choral concert this am.
Over my 31 years working with children’s/school choirs, I have always loved this work and taught it to many children.
But one time stands out more than the rest. I was teaching language arts as well as the music program at Rosedale school in Calgary. We were studying Houston’s FROZEN FIRE so we took winter field trip to Fish Creek interpretive centre, a very quiet place where there is no noise of the city. As we were exploring the frozen landscape, huge snowflakes began to fall, settking in the trees, creating a true winter wonderland.The children suddenly stopped in their explorations and started to sing ” let us walk in the white snow, In a soundless space”……… The music and the language suddenly had such meaning for them!
This was one of those unforgettable teaching moments and I thank you for bringing it forward in my memory bank. Velvet Shoes is a difficult work, especially tuning the F major section but so brilliant when it switches keys……”I shall go shod in silk….”
Many thanks,
Rosemarie Sherban (Robertson) founder Mount Royal Children’s and Calgary Children’s choirs.
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