Anybody Like Classical Music?
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Irish Signiorino is going independent, his last day at HITC Sports is March 14. He used sausage rolls and Johannes Brahms in the same sentence...he's going to thrive.
The Little Chicken turned 80 in Jan, he still brings the fire. The opening exposition gives me a hard on.
The Little Chicken turned 80 in Jan, he still brings the fire. The opening exposition gives me a hard on.
This post was inspired from the recent King of Kings thread here, obviously.
Soundtrack music adapted from the famous march tune in Russian
composer Lev Knipper's Symphony No.4 in D Major, Op.41.
composer Lev Knipper's Symphony No.4 in D Major, Op.41.
Final movement of "Long March" Symphony. Sit tight near the
end. This is one breathtakingly powerful performance.
end. This is one breathtakingly powerful performance.
America has become a quasi fascist shithole since Antonin Dvorak visited the place. Would his music be any different today?
He did conduct the New York Philharmonic while he was there.
He did conduct the New York Philharmonic while he was there.
Cate Blanchett is takling her most ambitious role as Lydia Tar, the first female Music Director of a German Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic no less.
Her debut performance is of Gustav Mahler's cosmic Symphony No. 5. The Adagietto from the symphony turned Virtue and Moir into international superstars...no one dared attempt anything with Mahler before.
Interesting
Isn't it about time world music is classified as classical music? | Classical Music
There’s an implicit colonialism in the widely held Western assumption that these non-European musics are just folk music – or ‘world music’, a phrase which has no logical meaning. Set aside the fact that all classical music has folk roots, and consider the extreme sophistication of many of the musics listed here. How many European musicians could confidently divide a whole-tone into nine pitch-gradations, as Turkish players do? How many could equal Thai musicians’ extraordinary feats of memory?
Isn't it about time world music is classified as classical music? | Classical Music
There’s an implicit colonialism in the widely held Western assumption that these non-European musics are just folk music – or ‘world music’, a phrase which has no logical meaning. Set aside the fact that all classical music has folk roots, and consider the extreme sophistication of many of the musics listed here. How many European musicians could confidently divide a whole-tone into nine pitch-gradations, as Turkish players do? How many could equal Thai musicians’ extraordinary feats of memory?
When Erich Wolfgang Korngold the most phenomenal prodigy since
Wolfgang Mozart returned to Vienna after WWII was over he was
deemed a dinosaur. I thought classical music was called classical
music because pretty much all of it is obsolete. This doesn't seem
to apply to Thai and other ethnic music.
Wolfgang Mozart returned to Vienna after WWII was over he was
deemed a dinosaur. I thought classical music was called classical
music because pretty much all of it is obsolete. This doesn't seem
to apply to Thai and other ethnic music.
Classical music is only like 3% of the music market in America, and maybe the number is not much different in the entire Western world.
That is shocking!
That is shocking!
As long as it's still out there, humanity may hope to avoid extinction by nuclear incineration.
Shostakovich Symphony No.7 (Leningrad)...a terrifying Bolero.
Shostakovich Symphony No.7 (Leningrad)...a terrifying Bolero.
Post WW II Europe was harsh to what they considered Old World facilitators of Nazism. Korngold had done well writing scores for Hollywood films. After the German purging of low level Nazis in the mid 60's attitudes started to change. Although dramatized, The Reader, starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes and Bruno Ganz does depict the trials accurately.
