Quote from: kristina on March 13, 2017, 01:34:37 PM ... Most unusual performance of Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) by Ludwig van Beethoven ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMoOh, my! This made me cry. My spine actually tingled!The choir was a big surprise! I didn't see that coming.Thanks so much for posting this, Kristina. I will make it a habit to watch it any time I feel like the world is coming to an end, which is pretty much every day these days.
... Most unusual performance of Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) by Ludwig van Beethoven ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
P.S. Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein died in Peterhof, having suffered from heart disease for some time. All his life he had felt himself something of an outsider; he wrote of himself in his notebooks “Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. My conclusion is that I am neither fish nor fowl – a pitiful individual”.
Quote from: kristina on March 20, 2017, 03:15:36 PMP.S. Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein died in Peterhof, having suffered from heart disease for some time. All his life he had felt himself something of an outsider; he wrote of himself in his notebooks “Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. My conclusion is that I am neither fish nor fowl – a pitiful individual”.Sounds like an artist. If you are good at your craft, you tend to be alienated by your contemporaries. Also, a good many artists suffer from some form of depression, or at the very least, self-depreciation. You are never good enough, in your own eyes, to be accepted by the group. In my own case, I THINK I'm not accepted, but really, I am. It's possible he felt that way as well.
Many thanks MooseMom for posting this !!! It practically restores my faith in ice scating-competitions !!! It is so refreshing to watch Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot and see their beautifully worked-out most sensitive ice-dancing performance, where most difficult technical features are practically "thrown in" as a by-the-way-addition to their artistically perfect and most beautiful performance ! When I grew up I always looked forward to watch ice scating competitions and I loved every minute of it !!! But then, I believe it was in the late 1970's, early 1980's, when I felt that ice scating competitions became a bit too technical in order to please the judges and it also appeared a bit political when judges gave their vote mainly to ice scaters of their own native country... All that appears to have changed for the better now and I am so pleased to see it happening! It is so wonderfully refreshing to see a French ice scater (Bruno Massot) dancing in complete harmony with a Russian ice scater (Aliona Savchenko) and they compete together for Germany and it is just wonderful to watch their most artistic, very sensitive and technically perfect performance !Thanks again MooseMom for sharing with us this wonderful development in competitive ice scating !Best wishes from Kristina.
Hanneke is the Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Renaissance Summer Festival.
This is one of the most beautiful compositions by J.S Bach (1685-1750) from his Brandenburg Concertos,Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major (written in 1721), BWV 1051: Adagio, ma non tanto