[Rhodes22-list] One of My Favorites

Mon Jun 6 08:15:31 EDT 2011

So many replies to Tchaikovsky... Here's a conductor doing the 1812
overture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGuBxdgIYvU

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Lynn Hoffman <drfood55 at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> (aspiring rhodes owner here)
>
> sleeping beauty, copping out? maybe swan lake was a sellout?  okay,
> nutcracker was probably done to get money for drugs. but is there anything
> more hypnotic on a stage than swan lake?
> and thanks slim for that note about russian music. i was raised by wolves
> as
> far as music goes and that helped me understand something.
>
> lynn
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:07 PM, David Bradley <dwbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for that lesson.
> >
> > We saw Tchaikovsky's ballet, "The Sleeping Beauty," danced by the
> Stamford
> > Ballet on Friday evening.  It was a local production with local kids in
> the
> > company, and professionals from NYC and elsewhere in the few lead roles.
> > What great music and dancing.  The artistic director talked about
> > Tchaikovsky "copping out" by doing a ballet but he didn't care.  A rebel
> in
> > his time I guess.  Wonderful for us now.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Slim Chance <slimsails at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, Lee.  It's hard to imagine and silly to think about Foxworthy
> > taking
> > > anything so seriously as playing the flute in the orchestra, but he's
> all
> > I
> > > could think about while watching that guy.  So 70s!
> > >
> > > Re Tchaikovsky, The Russians tried not to like him because his
> > compositions
> > > were so Germanic -- sort of like Beethoven -- and not at all Russian.
> >  They
> > > saw him as something of a turncoat.  In fact he spurred a movement of
> > other
> > > Russian composers, e.g., Rimsky-Korsekov, Mussorgsky, Borodin,
> Balakirev
> > > and
> > > Qui to form what became know as the "Mighty Five" who undertook to
> write
> > > specifically Russian music.  Nevertheless Tchaikovsky continued to win
> > over
> > > the hearts of people with his wonderful sense of melody, imagination,
> > > orchestration, etc. and the nation was rocked by his death at age 53.
>  A
> > > controversy to this day, some say he died of Cholera and others say
> > suicide
> > > because of his admitted homosexuality.  But, yeah, I love his stuff
> too!
> > >
> > > A little tidbit on typical Russian melody:  The Russian language has no
> > > articles -- "a" or "the" -- so when we say "The cup is on a table" they
> > > would say "Cup is on table."   Western European melodies, both folk
> > > melodies
> > > and formal classical melodies we often use "pick-up" notes. For example
> > in
> > > "Happy Birthday"  the "Happy" is a pick-up and "Birth" comes in on beat
> > > one.  Or in "Amazing Grace" the "A" is a pick-up and "Maz" is beat one.
> > > Still with me?  The technical musical term for this is called an
> > anacrusis.
> > > When we say "The cup is on a table" the '"the" is like a pick-up and
> > > "table"
> > > is beat one.  Russian melodies rarely use pick-up notes in their
> melodies
> > > and most often begin right on beat one so that  parallels their
> language
> > as
> > > it should.  In "Cup is on table"  "Cup" is beat one.  Tchaikovsky's
> > > melodies
> > > are filled with pick-ups therfore very un-Russian.
> > >
> > > Class dismissed.
> > >
> > > Slimsky Slimsnakovskya  8-)
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Leland <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Slim,
> > > >
> > > > Excellent--thanks for sharing.  "You may be a redneck" if you
> associate
> > > > Foxworthy with Bernstein, although the resemblance is uncanny.
> > > >
> > > > We had two classes in school where they would take a picture of each
> > > class
> > > > and if someone was in your seat every time you received an "A" and
> for
> > > each
> > > > class you missed you could make it up with a short paper.  The
> classes
> > > were
> > > > Theater Appreciation and Music Listen Lab.  Unfortunately I
> mistakenly
> > > > enrolled in Music Appreciation which was absolutely one of the most
> > > > difficult and time-consuming classes I ever took.  In retrospect it
> may
> > > > have
> > > > been the most useful class because I've spent far more time listening
> > to
> > > > classical music than using anything else I learned in college.  I
> still
> > > > love
> > > > Rock-n-Roll but it's tough to beat Tchaikovsky's greatest hits.
> > > >
> > > > Lee
> > > > 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
> > > > Kent Island, MD
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Slim Chance wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Some of you remember me as a rocker but I grew up with a classical
> > > > > background.  Back in the the 60s There was a weekly TV program
> called
> > > > > Leonard Bernstein's Young Peoples' Concert which I never missed.  I
> > > > > believe
> > > > > LB to be arguably the greatest American musician of all.  Maybe
> Louis
> > > > > Armstrong, Bernstein, Armstrong, Bernstein Armstrong.  Obviously
> for
> > > > > different reasons.  But check this out and please also watch the
> > second
> > > > > part
> > > > > where he conducts the reprise with his face alone.  This video also
> > > > > features
> > > > > Jeff Foxworthy on flute!
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlURvraEmeY
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