Anybody Like Classical Music?

Yuja Wang started her career as a piano accompanist with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra founded by Claudio Abbado. She recently broke up with Klaus Makela, he's more Duran Duran than Claudio Abbado. She still tours with the MCO, she played a part in Maestro Abbado's funeral. She's kept her personal life private, she can't resist a relationship with someone named Leonidas.

 
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Vittorio Monti – Csárdás is his only piece that ever gets played.



A csárdás is a traditional Hungarian dance form with two parts:

  • Lassú — slow, expressive
  • Friss
Clara Cernat – violin 🎻 goes into a trance when she plays this piece of gypsy music


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Ballerinas are extraordinary.

Kenzie Thomas is the Prima Ballerina at the Arizona Performing Arts Center. She's had two kids, her husband is a ballerone.

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She personally directs her troupe to make them better dancers. Correction she's training the photographer.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MTqcVNQ3vRE
 
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Marcus Crassus was the Donald Trump of the Roman Empire.

Spartacus and Flavia Dance from Khachaturian's Spartacus. Can you lift 110 lbs of non-stationary weight, with one arm, without a wobble. Michael Wozniak is exceptionally strong.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A-PLJ3YxUaI

Eventually Crassus's avarice caught up with him.

 
The man who made Toronto cool.

His residence on St Clair and Spadina has become a shrine.

 
I love classical music. I played in a neoclassical progressive metal band. My bass teacher would transpose cello parts for me. My guitarist was amazing. He could play damn a pear anything by ear. He did such blistering sweep arpeggio solos. He went on to become a conductor.

This is a pretty accessible prog band that I like that incorporates classical elements. Maybe some classical fans would like them.

 
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The early 20th Century was a shitty time, Bela Bartok lived through it. Dmitri Shostakovitch had it worse. The Hungarian composer was very inventive, especially when it came to spoofing Shostakovitch's Leningrad Symphony.