Yes, she was the absolute epitome of a renaissance (wo)man before there was a renaissance, incredibly gifted in so many area. Her music - on a 'relaxation' audiocassette which shows how long ago it was - introduced me to early music which I have loved ever since, it always makes me feel wonderful.
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I really miss singing early music. It's such a challenge!An English Ladymass - Anonymous 4
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. I was astonished when I learned my twin grandsons had talked their parents into letting them join a children's choir (typical hockey-playing little rowdies that they were), but it seems their school music teacher had played something like this for the kids and our two, whose best subject was math, saw a challenge in it that intrigued them. Their choir in Nova Scotia was the kind that enters competitions, singing the kind of intricate works that many adult choirs shy away from.
I followed the Early Music scene in Boston/Cambridge for years when I lived there. They could be seen/heard in churches especially during religious holidays, Easter, Christmas etc and at museums such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner in the summer months usually outdoors under the stars. I miss those days. You are indeed fortunate to have such a talent.I really miss singing early music. It's such a challenge!
Some of it is the fiendishly difficult music that children's choirs do better than adult singers
One of my favourite symphonies. The second theme in the 1st movement, the counterpointy development, and the second movement areKalinnikov symphony no. 1, 2nd movement.
Some pairs team needs to skate to this. Kalinnikov died young before he had a chance to prove his great superiority as a composer to his contemporary Mahler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xnaaSMJq18&t=14m7s
, the scherzo is pretty good too, and the last movement recapitulates it all. Russian in themes and European in form, well-structured, well-paced.
I had a look too. It's such a weird competition: 100 people play the same repertoire from a short list to determine who does it better. I guess it helps some of the winners to start a career, there are some established names among the former winners, but the whole idea of the format... Considering Chopin had stage fright and a good sense of humour, he might actually have found this funny, but van Cliburn rules make a lot more sense to me.
Of course. Chopin wrote only about 20 hours of published music, none of it is dispensable, and this is why he is among the greats despite having written no symphony or opera and only a handful of works for non-solo-piano. I guess this competition is not for viewers who know much of it by heart.And yet judging by the sheer number of YT views this year only, Chopin Competition seems to be way more popular with the global online audiences with much more people willing to hear Chopin over and over again. The music itself might have something to do with it, of course.
Also, it happens once in 5 years, less often than Olympics! So it is a big event. Cliburn is less popular, true.
We did a show program once to You Don't Bring Me Flowers, his duet with Barbra Streisand.A Neil Diamond CD - we attended a Neil Diamond tribute show over the weekend. So good, so good!
The Cliburn Competition is quite popular I think? Some of the candidates at the Chopin Competition have participated, and this 2025 Cliburn finalist (he won a special prize) was the best I've heard at the Chopin Competition until now (but I haven't heard half of the Second Stage participants), he wasn't taken for the Third Stage and it's a scandal:Of course. Chopin wrote only about 20 hours of published music, none of it is dispensable, and this is why he is among the greats despite not having written a symphony or opera, and only a handful of works for non-solo-piano. I guess this competition is not for viewers who know much of it by heart.
I guess this competition is not for viewers who know much of it by heart.
I am pretty sure that most of the crowd queuing for hours, often at night or since early dawn, to get a seat in the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall to hear the Chopin Competition live know it all by heart and soul, and heard it all before. And many of them queue there every 5 years, nonetheless.
I am pretty sure that most of the crowd queuing for hours, often at night or since early dawn, to get a seat in the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall to hear the Chopin Competition live know it all by heart and soul, and heard it all before. And many of them queue there every 5 years, nonetheless.
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