The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ BBC Radio 3 🎶 #NowPlaying BotFeb 20
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #ThroughTheNight Alec Wilder, Saruschan Aghamiri & Shih-Yu Tang: 🎵 Suite no 1 for tuba and piano 'Effie Suite' #BBCRadio3 #AlecWilder #SaruschanAghamiri #ShihYuTang
Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJul 27, 2025
The majority of tonight’s music was arranged for Tubas and Euphoniums by American composer and author Alec Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980), who made arrangements for Sinatra’s radio backup choir and was one of the many composers and musicians who created “The Great American Songbook” in the early 20th century.
#SymSat #ChristmasInJuly #AlecWilder
Andi ChorleyJul 7, 2025

Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder Review by Richard S. Ginell

..When Sinatra got a passion for something, nothing would stand in his way -- not even the inconvenient facts that he had never conducted before and couldn't read music. Yet apparently he was a natural... the ensemble is alert, cohesive, and phrases with terrific musicality. In any case, these are lovely, wistful pieces..That's Sinatra's future bête noire at Columbia, Mitch Miller, expertly sounding forth on "Air for Oboe" and "Air for English Horn," and the future New York Philharmonic principal flutist Julius Baker takes a gorgeous turn on "Air for Flute." You can hear some overtones of Delius now and then, even touches of '40s swing on "Slow Dance" and "Theme and Variations," but Wilder was defiantly his own man, conjuring playful, relaxed, piquant, mixed idioms at will.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/frank-sinatra-conducts-the-music-of-alec-wilder-mw0000648969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_3DV92GAs&list=PLs9FRWqmHy-hQRH3lC7rXXvSa7BRb_8qw&index=2

#franksinatra #alecwilder #oboe

50+ MusicMay 13, 2025
"Ja-Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing, Jing, Jing!)" is a #hitSong written in 1918 by #BobCarleton. The title is sometimes rendered simply as "#Jada." The song has flourished through the decades as a #jazzStandard. In his definitive American Popular Songs, #AlecWilder writes about the song's simplicity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgcfzwFpKzs
Ja-Da

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50+ MusicJul 19, 2023
"Ja-Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing, Jing, Jing!)" is a #hitSong written in 1918 by #BobCarleton. The title is sometimes rendered simply as "#Jada." Ja-Da has flourished through the decades as a #jazzStandard. In his definitive American Popular Songs, #AlecWilder writes about the song's simplicity:
https://youtu.be/vgAFzAys4xY
ERROLL GARNER TRIO - JA-DA

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Tom LorenzMar 15, 2023
Now that my student has gone home, I get to futz around on my own! I haven’t played this piece since college. It’s a ton of fun, but my playing is decidedly rough. #AlecWilder #SuiteNo1 #TubaAndPiano #Mvmt4 #RustyOnTuba
E.N. WilsonNov 17, 2022

Thursday #Music:

Widely admired but not very well-known to the public, Alec Wilder wasn't the easiest composer to pigeonhole. This is from a period where he was fronting a woodwinds-and-harpsichord combo pitched to Brunswick under the promise that he could give the label Raymond Scott-style instrumentals. He delivered something above and beyond.

Seldom the Sun - Alec Wilder Octet

#AlecWilder #Jazz #1940sPop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgglQuGM9q4

Alec Wilder - Seldom the sun

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