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Tune of the Day: Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen

This duet is sung by Pamina and Papageno in Act I of Mozart's famous opera Die Zauberflöte, or The Magic Flute. Papageno announces to Pamina that her mother, the Queen of the Night, has sent Tamino to her aid. Pamina rejoices to hear that Tamino is in love with her, and then offers sympathy and hope to Papageno, who longs for a wife to love. Together they sing an ode to love: “In men who feel love, a good heart is not lacking”.

Tune of the Day: The Washington Post

This march has been among Sousa's most popular for years, considered by many his best known after Stars and Stripes Forever. It still stands as one of Sousa's most played works, and is performed widely by concert and marching bands alike; it is considered to be an essential piece for band literature.

The Washington Post newspaper claims in its history that this march was written as a tribute to the newspaper and performed by Sousa and his band in 1899. However, the work dates to 1889; moreover, The Washington Post in the march's title referred to the Marine contingent posted in the nation's capital at the time, not to the newspaper. It is true that Sousa performed the march at ceremonies held in 1899 by the newspaper, and the work's title was obviously fitting for the occasion.

Tune of the Day: Cronin's Frolics

This jig is taken from Chicago Police Captain Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in 1907.

The tune is probably named after Chicago fiddler Edward Cronin (c. 1838–1918), originally from Limerick Junction, County Tipperary and a weaver by trade. O'Neill thought him one of the two best fiddlers in Chicago and praised his playing and his ability to improvise and to compose music, especially hornpipes. O'Neill traveled 12 miles each way to his house twice a week for two years to learn and transcribe tunes. However, “temperament and professional jealousy brought it all to an abrupt end without apparent cause”, although “when in the humor, no man could be more obliging and liberal with his music”.

Tune of the Day: Study in B-flat minor by Andersen

Here is another étude by Danish flutist Joachim Andersen. This Adagio in B-flat minor is study No. 16 from his Twenty-Four Etudes for Flute, Op. 33. It can easily be considered a study in accidentals... don't let all those sharps and flats scare you!

Tune of the Day: Moderato by Köhler

Here is a new flute duet from Volume I of Ernesto Köhler's Forty Progressive Duets. In this piece the main melody is given to the first flute, while the second flute plays more of an accompaniment role.

Tune of the Day: Morceau de Concours

Gabriel Fauré was appointed professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire in 1896, and it was natural that the great flutist Paul Taffanel, who also taught there and was a great friend of his, should turn to him for a concours composition, which turned out to be the famous Fantaisie, Op. 79. For the same occasion Fauré also composed a brief sight-reading piece, properly titled “Morceau de lecture”, that would provide a good test of musicianship.

The latter, which according to some sources was composed on Bastille Day, July 14, 1898, is a mere arabesque dutifully spun out in the requisite scales, arpeggios and mordents, the apt execution of which demonstrates proficiency. This functional exercise plays out slowly over a spare piano accompaniment for about a minute and a half.

Tune of the Day: Come Along With Me

This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. The tune is also known under a few other names, including “Fahy's Jig” and “The Green Forest Jig”.