A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Mar 21
The biggest musical birthday of them all:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mar. 21, 1685 - 1750!
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Mar 10
Samuel Barber, perhaps the most durable of American 20th C. composers: March 9, 1910 - 1981…
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Feb 29
“ The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
— Stanley Kubrick (via kenzel)
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Feb 10
“ The material of music is the tone; what it affects first, the ear. The sensory perception releases associations and connects tone, ear, and the world of feeling. On the cooperation of these three factors depends everything in music that is felt to be art.
Feb 08
John Williams (born February 8, 1932)
“There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn’t have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.”
Feb 03
Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, b. Feb. 3, 1809 (d. 1847 after multiple strokes), was not only a shining example of the ability to channel beautiful melodies to the task of expressing strong emotions (take his haunting violin concerto…), but also a musical archeologist who to a very large extent was able to hear Bach’s relevance for a new age, dust him off and get his works performed again - in new settings appropriate for the Romantic taste for larger-than-life effects…
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Jan 25
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010)
“If you can live without music for two or three days, then don’t write – it might be better to spend the time with a girl or with a beer.”
Jan 14
Dmitri Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975)
“Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.”
— The Power of Music, 1964
Jan 09
“ Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
— Hector Berlioz (via missfolly)
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Jan 08
Photorealism - Unbelievable, but these are no photos, these are super realistic looking oil paintings by the American artist Doug Bloodworth
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Jan 02
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Fauré: Elegie in c-moll 7:11
Heinrich Schiff/ Charles Meckerras: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Saint-Saens; Lalo; Fauré
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Dec 30
Pablo (Pau) Casals, the ultimate master cellist, was born Dec. 29, 1876 in Catalonia. He went into exile after Franco’s victory in the Spanish civil war and never again performed in his home country. He died in 1973, at age 96…
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Dec 27
» Blogthoven: Beethoven's 3rd letter to his Immortal Beloved
Good morning, on July 7
Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us - I can live only wholly with you or not at all - Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly…
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Dec 23
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