#Concert Waltz

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Obscure but historically important Armenian-Soviet composer, conductor, and pedagogue Alexander Afanasyevich Spendiaryan (1871 - 1928) -- who often went by "Spendiarov" -- is born in what is now modern-day Ukraine. Spendiarov is a little-known figure today, except in Armenia, where he is still celebrated as the "Father of Armenian Symphonic Music." After obtaining a law degree in Moscow in 1894, Spendiarov traveled to St. Petersburg to show some musical compositions that he had composed in his spare time to legendary Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908). Rimsky-Korsakov was highly complementary, and, from 1896 to 1900, Spendiarov stayed on and studied music privately with him; according to fellow composer Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936), Rimsky-Korsakov always “considered [Spendiarov] to be a serious and talented composer with a great flair for composition.” In the best works dating from his mature years, Spendiarov cultivated a type of late-Romantic Russian “orientalism” in which the elements of folk songs native to the peripheral regions of the Old Russian Empire were adroitly arranged and decked out in the colorful harmonies of the Russian "Nationalist" school of music spear-headed by Rimsky-Korsakov and his colleagues in "The Mighty Five." Spendiarov's relocation from Crimea to Yerevan, Armenia, in in the early 1920s had a significant impact on his creative activities. In Armenia, he focused more of his time on teaching (he was one of the first significant figures to support the young Aram Khachaturian), helped to organize the first symphony orchestra ever assembled in the country, and spent a significant amount of time studying and transcribing Armenian folk music. When Spendiarov died from pneumonia in 1928, he was widely mourned as a national cultural hero. PICTURED: A beautiful publicity photo showing the middle-aged Spendiarov, which he signed and inscribed to a friend in Yalta in 1913.

[tweeterwilbury]

"I freshened up and changed, feeling elated exhaustion. I was standing in the shower, dressed, retrieving my clothes from the show, when I saw that somebody had stolen one of my shirts. Annie Leibovitz took a shot of me standing in the shower looking dismayed."

-Robbie Robertson on Testimony (2016).

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz” April 26, 1978.

[xitty]

Ensemble Stars TV anime, Road to Show!! movie and DREAM LIVES plus ES Music Garden (MVs) and The Stage -Party Live- (stage actors' concert) will be broadcast on Youtube for free!

A very special chance to see the DREAM LIVES!! They will be streamed daily starting 22nd September and are available for two weeks afterwards. (Note that 8th Dream Live won't be streamed)

Double Star (3rd), Prism Star (4th) and Stargazer (5th) Dream Lives have two versions, both will be streamed, so it'll be 11 concerts in total!

The official site (in Japanese), scroll all the way down for the schedule.

[jt1674]

[pendraegon]

coffee's...for closers...yeah im doing fine im not like. upset that im not there at all haha. ha.

[capn-o-my-soul]

ahhhh my local classical music radio station is playing a live recording of a national symphony orchestra concert where they played shostakovich 10

[ruleof3bobby]

THE LAST WALTZ (1978) Grade: B

Loved Scorsese camera movements & the stage sets were an interesting move. I looked forward to the interviews. Good documentary even if you're not familiar with their music.

[nancywheeeler]

girl alone in her room going insane as she tries to fix a silly little tv show in her head

[roseband]

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[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Legendary composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) plays his second concert in Kiev in 1847, at what will become the tail end of his famous decade-long European concert tour. It is estimated that Liszt played well over 1,000 concerts in the decade between 1838 and 1848... So what made this particular concert notable? Sitting in the audience on that fateful evening was a twenty-eight-year-old fabulously wealthy Ukrainian princess named Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein. Princess Carolyne was married to (but separated from) Prince Nicholas von Sayn-Wittgenstein, a landowner holding vast estates in Central Ukraine with more than 30,000 serfs at his beck and call. She had actually travelled to Kiev for business, and she only attended Liszt's concert on a whim after hearing about the success of his first concert in the city -- but that chance decision would change both of their lives (and the course of musical history) forever. Princess Carolyne was deeply struck by the flashy figure that she saw before her on the concert stage, and acting on impulse, she made a fateful gamble: Hoping to attract Liszt's attention, she left him an exceedingly large "anonymous" (but easily traceable) monetary gift at the theater. Like a moth to a flame, the curious Liszt quickly identified her and then came calling to thank her for her generosity -- and within a matter of weeks, he was making plans to abandon his touring life and take up with a (technically-still-married) princess... PICTURED: A c. 1890s cabinet photo of the famous portrait showing the dashing young Liszt c. 1837 (shortly before he embarked on his grand concert tour), as painted by noted Dutch-French Romantic artist Ary Scheffer (1795 - 1858). This particular cabinet photo is one of many that was handed out to visitors over the years by Pauline Apel, who served as Liszt's housekeeper for thirty years at his residence in Weimar. When it was turned into a museum the year after his death, Apel stayed on and served as the official tourist guide until her own death, forty years later, in 1926.

[tweeterwilbury]

[Me at a party, very drunk and thinking about something to say] hey look at this graphic i did

[christophwaltzlovehim]

Christoph Waltz attends the Walt Disney Concert Hall opening night gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall on on September 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

[3vi3evie]

What do I post on here 😭😭😭

[variousqueerthings]

part 3 of the liveblog: 

starting on a question -- how much piano-playing is alan alda doing himself?

[paperlovesadness]

Well Knee Socks are back I guess. Which - sure, fun.

But guess what - they've taken Do Me a Favour's spot

I'm still so very bitter and scared and sad for TBHC, most of all. But now more of the same.

I do enjoy AM as an album - I do. But I don't think switching up non-AM songs for even more AM songs should be allowed 😪 All the other albums deserve so much better.

Just... AM is a great album. I get it's what most casual fans listen to. But I hate the level of trying to appeal to just that one specific group of fans.