#Pictures at an Exhibition

[rastronomicals]

11:17 AM EST December 12, 2024:

Tomita - "The Great Gates Of Kiev" From the album Pictures at An Exhibition (1975)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[rachelbethhines]

Princess Tutu and Corresponding Ballets Revisited - Episode 5

On the Night of the Fire Festival - Pictures at an Exhibition

Reasons for inclusion  

Is the episode's subtitle

feature's music from the suite/ballet

[folfot5]

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[stone-cold-groove]

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite / Moussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition. The Philadelphia Orchestra - 1956.

[millenariumhappinesstheorem]

Whenever I try to imagine what Noldolante sounds like, I hear Old Castle from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky.

I'd be really interested to know what songs other folks imagine?

[anonymousdandelion]

An excerpt from a band arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition, to haunt those inhabiting the intersection on the Venn diagram of musicians and people who have read Thistlefoot.

[dongslinger--420]

I feel like it is extremely important to realise that the piece that they play when Princess Carolyn having her painting fantasy is from Pictures At An Exhibition. And it's from the first movement, which is called Prominade. It's an amazing pun and it literally could not be more perfect for this scene like I don't think you underSTAND.

[childoftheriver]

Two from West Germany ‘73.

[sentimentalufo]

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (SHEET MUSIC)

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Important Russian “nationalist” composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) is born into a wealthy and land-owning Russian family. Mussorgsky began receiving piano lessons from his mother (a trained pianist) at the age of six. He progressed rapidly, and, at the age of ten, he and his brother were taken to Saint Petersburg to continue their studies (which included music) at an elite school. Mussorgsky's parents had also planned the move to Saint Petersburg so that both their sons would renew a longstanding family tradition of military service. Accordingly, Mussorgsky was duly enrolled in the Cadet School of the Guards at the age of 13. Unfortunately, the school was a brutal environment – and it probably instilled in young Mussorgsky the drinking habits which would ultimately lead him down to the path to terminal alcoholism. (According to another former student, the Head of the Academy at that time "was proud when a cadet returned from leave drunk with champagne.”) Mussorgsky’s considerable skills as a pianist made him popular with his fellow-cadets, however, and he spent many evenings playing popular dances interspersed with his own improvisations. In October 1856, the 17-year-old Mussorgsky met the 22-year-old physician Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887) while both men were serving at a military hospital. Even more portentous was Mussorgsky’s introduction just a few months later to Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869) – who at the time was the most important Russian composer after Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857). Dargomyzhsky was so impressed with Mussorgsky's pianism that he invited Mussorgsky to attend his soirées, and it was there that Mussorgsky met Cesar Cui (1835 – 1918) and Mily Balakirev (1837 – 1910) – and, through Balakirev, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908). Thus the core constituency of the historically important Russian “nationalist” school of composers known as “The Mighty Five” was formed… PICTURED: A c. 1920s real photo postcard showing the middle-aged Mussorgsky, with a very solid mullet.

[culturevulturette]

There's already a soundtrack for that...

[rastronomicals]

6:15 PM EDT August 22, 2024:

Tomita - "Bydlo" From the album Pictures at An Exhibition (1975)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[folfot5]

Schwäbisch Hall....Museum Würth

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[stamhuistea]

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[vmunroe]

Missed opportunity to use this as the music: