by Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, César Franck, Mikhail Glinka, André Grétry, Jenő Huszka, Albert Ketèlbey, Gustav Mahler, Modest Mussorgsky and Carl Nielsen
Mark is in Mitteleuropa right now, undergoing some urgent medical treatment. Nonetheless, our Steyn Club birthday observances continue. The Club was born nine years ago on May 6th 2017, which means that we are just beginning our tenth year. One of the most popular features this last near-decade has been our series of monthly audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. And one of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany his serialisation of each story.
So here, after many requests, is an encore presentation of our sampler of the accompanying melodies for some of our tales: Mark plays ninety minutes of great works by composers from all over the map, starting with Sir Edward Elgar, the man who gave our series its theme tune. After that comes a triumphal march from a Russo-Turkish war, the big song from a Hungarian operetta about England's Prince Bob and the Cockney serving wench he loves, and the music Mark picked out for Jekyll and Hyde, The Time Machine, The Scarlet Pimpernel and many more, all performed by some of the world's great orchestras under the batons of Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti and more. And along the way Mark explains how he goes about picking out these tunes for our tales.
To hear this Tales for Our Time music sampler, simply click above. If you're a devoted follower of our Tales, we hope this will be a reminder of a rollicking first nine years. If you're a Mark Steyn Club member who's missed one or two of our tales, we hope it will whet your appetite to take a prowl around the archive. And, if you're not a Steyn Clubber, we hope you'll enjoy this taste of one of the Club's favourite features.
A brand new ninth-birthday tale will begin in the next few days, as soon as Mark's voice has stabilised. The crucial element of The Mark Steyn Club is the members - and we're very appreciative of all those who signed up in that first month nine Mays ago and have been so eager to re-subscribe in recent days. But we always like to have new members too, and we've been gratified by the number who've chosen to join a little late as we begin our tenth year. For more information on The Mark Steyn Club, see here. And, if you have a friend of literary bent who might enjoy our monthly audio adventures, don't forget our special gift membership.
