This morning I thought of my Grandmother. I remember when I was a little girl ~ She introduced me to coffee...... The sweetest cup of coffee I've ever had.
"Sweet Memories are the Paradise of the Mind" Have a beautiful day & keep warm! ~xoxo~
After Shostakovich rose to fame in the Soviet Union, he later had a complex and difficult relationship with the Stalinist bureaucracy, suffering two official denunciations of his music, in 1936 and 1948, and the periodic banning of his work.
Music: Sonata, Op. 40 for Cello and Piano - Move. 2
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer: Anne Gastinel - cello Roger Muraro - piano
All my best, michael
..Mozart's Overture to "Die Zauberflöte" ("The Magic Flute") is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
Acknowledged as one of the greatest interpreters of the cello, Jacqueline du Pré's career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to cease performing at the age of 28, and led to her premature death. Following her death, her older sister Hilary and younger brother Piers wrote a book about their family life - "A Genius in the Family". It was the basis for the film "Hilary and Jackie", both of which aroused fierce controversy.
All my best, michael
..Ravel's "Boléro" is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
Arturo Toscanini, who was an Italian conductor and one of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory.
from an interview:
T. - "I've been up since five o'clock this morning studying this symphony." (Beethoven's Fifth)
Q. - "Maestro, how many times have you conducted that?"
T. - "Oh, hundreds."
Q. - "And you're still studying it?"
T. - "Well, I'm always afraid I may have missed something."
All my best, michael
..Ravel's "La Valse" is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 9" was the last symphony that he completed. He died in May 1911, without ever having heard it performed. The work's ending has for many years been interpreted as being a self-conscious farewell to the world.
Performers: Wiener Philharmoniker Leonard Bernstein – Conductor
All my best, michael
..Respighi's Pines of Rome is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
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Have a beautiful day!
