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danmand

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Who can forget Daniella Bianca

 

jerimander

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Daniela Bianchi was Italian. Katya of Russian Paradise had a body very similar to the girl in the grey bikini.
 

danmand

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Initially, his Concerto was hated, and almost no violinist wanted to play it. I have an old DGG recordin of Christian Ferras playing it; superb!
No violinist COULD play it.
 

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Insidious Von

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No one could play this either, especially the opening piano sequence.

Some still can't, Vladimir Ashkenazy left out the closing bass trills and got hissed for it.

 

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What a beautiful cat
Yes, there is an Instagram account as well. He never seems to bite anyone. They have a normal housecat as well, but the little fellow appears quite safe with his larger cousin.

The couple rescued the puma from a zoo when he was young and nursed him back to health.
 

danmand

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Yes, there is an Instagram account as well. He never seems to bite anyone. They have a normal housecat as well, but the little fellow appears quite safe with his larger cousin.

The couple rescued the puma from a zoo when he was young and nursed him back to health.
On one of the youtube videos they feed him a big bowl of raw meat. It is probably wise not to let him get too hungry.
 

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No violinist COULD play it.
Exactly. You are right, as it was technically very complex and a challenge to contemporary violinists of the time. Alexander Brodsky eventually played it for the first time in 1879 at Vienna, according to the notes on DGG 139028.
 

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That is the STUPIDIST, yet most strangely COMPELLING thing I have ever seen!

i had to watch. They will all get ALzheimers from the concussions.
 
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