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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Apr 16, 2017 - 03:02pm PT
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I just stumbled into a treasure trove of the reclusive Russian Pianist Mikhail Pletnev on youtube. Here's a tidbit...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 15, 2017 - 02:45pm PT
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Just saw the Feinstein Ensemble at St Martin In The Fields. Such great acoustics there for a flute quintet! They are the best band I'd not heard of previously, but I figured it wasn't much of a risk if they were playing there. Boy, howdy, can they bring it! Their eponymous leader plays a period wooden flute and might be the best flautist I've heard not named Jean-Pierre or James. The first violin is also fantastic and is also first of the London Hayden Quartet AND the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra! The cellist is no slouch either. Anyway, they did the Mozart Flute Quartet in D K285, the Mozart Salzburg Divertimento #1 in D K136, and Hayden's Symph #94 and 104 a la the 1795 arrangements for flute and strings by Hayden's friend JP Salomon. These are incredible arrangements which I've never heard. An incredible evening.
Saturday night: the Mozart Requiem with Peter G Dyson conducting the English Chamber Choir and Belmont Ensemble of London!
MARLOW ALERT!
You can just nip down and join us!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jun 15, 2017 - 02:51pm PT
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Reilly,
That's sort of awesome. Enjoy!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jun 27, 2017 - 01:19pm PT
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Sitting in my cube, this has been a nice discovery. Don't know who this woman is, but she knows Chopin.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 27, 2017 - 02:11pm PT
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I've never heard of her, either. Apparently others have:
"In 1980, her career took a decisive turn when Herbert von Karajan invited her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic. She subsequently received engagements with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris under Daniel Barenboim."
^^^ Tough crowd that!
That was a life moment. It would be gauche to say that it was flawless because it was transcendant, especially in such an historic and intimate venue.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jun 27, 2017 - 03:26pm PT
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^ You devil, you.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jun 28, 2017 - 10:26am PT
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Reilly
You know, Marlow, as a wayfaring stranger is a modern man in a postmodern time.
From the interweb:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
Sylvia McNair, Carolyn Watkinson, Francisco Araiza, Robert Lloyd
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Philips, 05 April 1991
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 27, 2017 - 08:48am PT
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Nice find, Marlow.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jul 27, 2017 - 10:27am PT
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Gary.
Cool posting of "Vesti la giubba" and interesting to study the interpretations. The voice and the actor. In Caruso they both fell together...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 27, 2017 - 11:50am PT
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Marlow, some day I'll do my 'Vesti den gammelgubbe' for you.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Aug 25, 2017 - 06:38am PT
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Last night at the Hollywood Bowl: John Adams' Harmonium and Mozart's Requiem. Fantastic.
Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The Carriage held but just Ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess in the Ring
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain
We passed the Setting Sun
Or rather He passed us
The Dews drew quivering and chill
For only Gossamer, my Gown
My Tippet only Tulle
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground
The Roof was scarcely visible
The Cornice in the Ground
Since then tis Centuries and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses Heads
Were toward Eternity
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 26, 2017 - 08:21am PT
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Glenn "The Hummer" Gould, certainly marched to a different drummer, dh?
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