Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.3 in D minor – Michelle DeYoung, Philharmonia Voices, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (HD 1080p)

Under the baton of the famous Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Philharmonia Voices (Ladies), the Tiffin Boys' Choir and the American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.3 in D minor. Recorded at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, on October 1, 2017.

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Gustav Mahler's monumental Third Symphony embraces heaven and Earth, nature and love. He deploys a huge orchestra, choirs and a solo singer to draw his listeners into a rich and compelling musical landscape.

It's a work that means a lot to us at the Philharmonia Orchestra. Back in 1983, it was the first piece we played with an unknown young Finnish conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen. We hit it off straight away, and he's been our Principal Conductor since 2008.

In October 2017, we returned to this epic piece with Esa-Pekka for Mahler 3: Live from London, a live stream project watched by an audience of 126,000 worldwide.

Source: Philharmonia Orchestra (London, UK)

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The Third is Gustav Mahler's longest Symphony, in six movements and lasting nearly two hours. Mahler's concept of the symphony as a world unto itself finds its complete exposition here in the highly diverse styles and elements, creating problems of continuity and coherence that he did not completely solve. The primary theme of the Third is Nature and Man's place therein, and its principal literary inspirations are Das Knaben Wunderhorn (as in the previous symphony) and Nietzsche. As in the Second Symphony, Mahler added words and voices to expand his means of expression and used material from one of his earlier Wunderhorn Songs. The original program ran like this: "The Joyful Knowledge: A Summer Morning's Dream". I. Pan Awakes: Summer Marches In; II. What the Meadow Flowers Tell Me; III. What the Creatures of the Forest Tell Me; IV. What Night Tells Me (Mankind); V. What the Morning Bells Tell Me (the Angels); VI. What Love Tells Me; and VII. The Heavenly Life (What the Child Tells Me). Ultimately, Mahler dropped the seventh movement and used it as the core around which he built the Fourth Symphony. The sum of this program represents Mahler's cosmological hierarchy at this point in his life and the Third Symphony as a whole is his most specific example of "world building" in artistic terms.

Kräftig. Entschieden. (Strongly and Confidently). This is the single longest sonata-form movement ever written. Mahler sets bizarre, primordial, and harsh brass and percussion rumblings depicting Pan's awakening in opposition to pastoral music of bird calls and light fanfares over tremulous strings and woodwind trillings. These elements are transformed into the ultimate example of Mahler's symphonic military marches. The entire movement covers a vast soundscape of imagery, from bold, assertive proclamation to harsh and grotesque fugal passages, to despairing outcries, to a lighthearted and popular sounding march tune.

Tempo di Menuetto. (Minuet Tempo). This is a light and folk-like dance movement in the style of the comic Wunderhorn Songs. It stands in sharp contrast to the weighty first movement.

Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast. (Moving, Scherzo-like, Without Haste). This movement quotes extensively from Mahler's song Ablösung im Sommer (Relief in the Summer) about a dead cuckoo. Its comic vein is interrupted twice, once by a sentimental posthorn solo, and later by a dramatic outburst symbolic of the great god Pan's intrusion into the peaceful summer.

Sehr langsam. Misterioso. Durchaus ppp. (Very Slow, Mysterious, Pianissimo Throughout). Here Mahler moves into a more metaphysical realm by setting Nietzsche's "Midnight Song" in this slow and haunting movement.

Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck. (Happy in Tempo, Saucily Bold in Expression). Boys and women's voices are used here to sing this angel's song about the redemption of sin from Das Knaben Wunderhorn. Mahler imitates church bells to delightful effect in this innocent and uplifting movement.

Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden. (Slow, Peaceful, Deeply Felt). A majestic and awesome Adagio concludes the Symphony in a hymn-like paean on love. It rises to a powerful climax as "Nature in its totality rings and resounds".

Source: Steven Coburn (allmusic.com)



Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

♪ Symphony No.3 in D minor (1893-1896)

i. Kräftig. Entschieden (Pan Awakes, Summer Marches In)
ii. Tempo di Menuetto, sehr mäßig (What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me)
iii. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast (What the Animals in the Forest Tell Me)
iv. Sehr langsam. Misterioso (What Man Tells Me)
v. Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck (What Man Tells Me)
vi. Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden (What Love Tells Me)

Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano

Philharmonia Voices (Ladies)
Tiffin Boys' Choir

Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, October 1, 2017

(HD 1080p)


Keep the Philharmonia Playing: a message from Esa-Pekka Salonen




Esa-Pekka Salonen (b. 1958, Helsinki) is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and music director-designate of the San Francisco Symphony.

Esa-Pekka Salonen's restless innovation drives him constantly to reposition classical music in the 21st century. He is known as both a composer and conductor and is currently the Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor for London's Philharmonia Orchestra. He is the Music Director Designate of the San Francisco Symphony; the 2020-2021 season will be his first as Music Director. He is Artist in Association at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. He recently joined the faculty of LA's Colburn School, where he developed, leads, and directs the pre-professional Negaunee Conducting Program. He is the Conductor Laureate for both the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was Music Director from 1992 until 2009. Salonen co-founded – and from 2003 until 2018 served as the Artistic Director for – the annual Baltic Sea Festival, which invites celebrated artists to promote unity and ecological awareness among the countries around the Baltic Sea.

Source: en.wikipedia.org & fidelioarts.com

Based in London at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, the Philharmonia creates thrilling performances for a global audience. Through its network of residencies, the Orchestra has a national footprint, serving communities across England both in performance and through its extensive outreach and engagement programme.

Founded in 1945, in part as a recording orchestra for the nascent home audio market, today the Philharmonia uses the latest digital technology to reach new audiences for symphonic music. The Philharmonia is led by Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, its Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor since 2008. Fellow Finn Santtu-Matias Rouvali takes over from Salonen as Principal Conductor in the 2021-2022 season.

During the Covid-19 lockdown, the Philharmonia's strong digital programme has enabled the Orchestra to maintain an international presence, with streams of archive performances, educational films, and videos made at home by individual players giving an insight into the life of the Orchestra to a global audience.

The Philharmonia is a registered charity that relies on funding from a wide range of sources to deliver its programme and is proud to be generously supported by Arts Council England.

Source: philharmonia.co.uk

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Sadly, consumers believe organic chips and similar items are healthy because they claim to be organic. I see so many people loading grocery carts full of these unhealthy organic food items.

The bottom line - chips are chips, organic, or not. Potato chips of any kind are one of the worst things to put in your body. Potato chips have one of the highest levels of acrylamide. Acrylamide is a chemical used for industrial purposes but is also formed when starchy foods like potato chips are cooked at high temperatures. It's also found in cigarette smoke. The chemical is shown to be linked to cancer and other diseases. Does that bag of chips still sound appealing?

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David W. and Elizabeth Taylor, with
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In the last post about the David W. Taylor House, I promised a more indepth look at the Taylor family
to which he belonged. Not exactly coincidentally, my wife also happens to belong to that family (David W. is her 3rd Great Grandfather). This line of Taylors has a long history, and much of it (thankfully) has been fairly well-documented. My father-in-law, David Starkey, some years back himself wrote a piece about the Taylor line, which I know I read but didn't fully appreciate at the time. Now I do.

In all the documentation about the Taylors, most of it seemed to focus on the time that most of them spent in Pennsylvania, and less on their time in Delaware. I had not realized the impact these Taylors had in Delaware, and in Mill Creek Hundred specifically, until recently. As it turns out, even in my wife's direct line, they spent a good deal of time in Mill Creek, Christiana, and Brandywine Hundreds. They also made notable contributions in the Chadds Ford area, too. Here's a look at part of their story.

The story began (in the New World, at least) in 1682, when Welsh Quaker Thomas Taylor emigrated to William Penn's new colony with his young family. Thomas died soon after the trip, probably from something contracted onboard ship. Fortunately his children survived, and for the next few generations stayed generally in Delaware and Chester Counties. In 1773, Thomas' great grandson John Taylor, then living in Pennsbury township, had a son named William. It was William, third of fourteen children, who first moved the short distance south into Delaware, and into Mill Creek Hundred.

William married in 1798 to Ann Mercer, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Mercer (as a shorthand, just assume about ever othery woman here is named Elizabeth -- only a slight exaggeration). I don't know where they lived the first ten years, but in 1808 William purchased 137 acres in MCH and Kennett from David Mercer of Ohio. Mercer was probably Ann's uncle or grandfather. (The deed states that Taylor was "of Mill Creek Hundred", so they may have already been living on the farm, perhaps since their marriage.) The tract was located north of Hockessin, near Lee and Benge Roads, catty corner from HB Dupont Middle School. I can't find a sale of this property, but Taylor likely sold it about 1814, when he moved his family about two miles due south to a new farm.

Approximate bounds of William Taylor's farm from 1808 to 1814
(Metes and bounds researched by Walt Chiquoine)

William Taylor, who was also a Quaker minister, purchased 137 acres along Brackenville Road (mostly) west of Mill Creek Road. There, he and Ann raised their 14(!) children, most of whom survived into adulthood. Many of them also remained in the area, and a few have already popped up in past posts. For example, eldest child Samuel Taylor's property was later incorporated into the North Star Farm of Stephen Mitchell, and two of his daughters married said Mitchell (not at the same time...they were Quakers not Mormons). Some of William's daughters married into families like the Mendenhalls and Sharplesses.

Original bounds of the 137 acres purchased in 1814. Mark indicates
location of the farmhouse, probably razed early 20th Century
(Metes and bounds researched by Walt Chiquoine)

When William Taylor died in 1829, he bequeathed his farm to second son Job (Samuel presumably already had his own). Job and wife Susanna Yeatman had but one child -- John Yeatman Taylor. John was a Naval doctor, who would later go on to serve as medical director for the US Navy and would retire as a Rear Admiral. (John's daughter Charlotte would become a writer and novelist.) So when Job died in 1846, Susanna and John sold the farm out of the family, to John Hanna.

However, the child of William Taylor that interests us the most here is David Wilson Taylor, 12th of 14, born on the Brackenville Road farm in 1819. A later history of Delaware County says of him -- "He spent his early years at the family home, leaving when he was 19 years of age and travelling extensively through the west. Returning east, he purchased farms in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and New Jersey, successively, following the farmer's occupation until death."  For the most part I don't know where his farms were in the other states, but in 1852 David W. purchased a farm in Christiana Hundred near Centreville, on which he would build a new stone house. And as stated in the David W. Taylor House and Dilworth Farm post, Taylor sold this farm in 1867.

His next move, whether it was physical or just financial, is the only out-of-state one of which I can find even the slimmest of mentions. As you can see in the clipping below (from the August 21, 1867 Alexandria Gazette), a "David W. Taylor of Newcastle (sic), Delaware" purchased an 837 acre farm in Caroline County, Virginia. Since the history book says he bought next in Virginia and his name and home are "correct" here, I have to assume this was our David W. Taylor. Caroline County, VA is about halfway between Washington, DC and Richmond -- I-95 now cuts through its western end. As far as I can tell, the county is mostly known for two Civil War-era deaths. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson died at nearby Guinea Station in 1863, and John Wilkes Booth was captured and killed near Port Royal on the northern end of the county in 1865.

There are two possibilities when it comes to this farm and the Taylors. One is that the family moved all the way down to Virginia for a few years and then came back. I frustratingly can't find them in the 1870 Census, but the real estate ad below from January 1873 shows they were living near Centerville by then. The farm mentioned in the ad is east of Centreville, between Center Meeting and Twaddell Mill Roads. David did not own the farm, but seems to have been a tenant farmer there. If I had to guess (and it's my blog, so yes, I do), I'd say that David bought the Virginia farm as an investment and never moved there. This was still only a few years after the war, and land may have been cheap in the area. Perhaps with his money tied up in Virginia, he chose to rent a farm instead in Delaware.

About the only other purchase I can find for David W. Taylor is a ten acre lot purchased from the Twaddell family, probably in northeastern Christiana Hundred. This may have been another investment, as David and family are shown in 1880 as living back in MCH in Little Baltimore, listed directly above William H. Walker (maybe he even used the Mystery Structure). When David Wilson Taylor died in 1895, he was living with one of his sons near Hockessin (Levis, I think, although widow Elizabeth was with Newton in 1900). He was interred at the cemetery at the Hockessin Friends Meeting House.

I hope you'll allow me to continue this self-indulgent look into the Taylor family in the next post, when we'll follow David W. Taylor's second son, Pusey Philips Taylor (my wife's Great-great grandfather). Pusey and his family will leave their mark in MCH, Christiana Hundred, and finally in Brandywine Hundred. In the middle they'll intersect with local and national history in nearby Chadds Ford. So if you're interested in that beautiful area, check out the next post as we conclude our look at the Taylors of...all over the place.

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