Her voice is growing up voices for me when our church that met at a middle school under construction had our choir practices at my parents house in the barrio.
Sounds like we weren't in America. ;^}> I can't tell you where we were even 50 years later, might compromise the places!
Celia, great post and most interesting. I appreciate music (as long as it's well written and well played). I'll definitely lend an ear to Shostakovitch' 5th. Music is so natural to life, especially music that's written with life in mind (as Shostakovitch has done). I remember a quote from my working days, "The whippings will continue until moral improves". Seems to go in line with your quote at the end "Your business is rejoicing. Your business is rejoicing"
Having ,long ago , studied post grad with the russians - (5 years Phillipe Hirshorn -the ultimate satirist ''They think I'm the angel of death ,which I probably am'' referring to why Lieberman's major intl competition winning students were scared (& obliged) to come to him, at all .
PH was a big man ,daring to demonstrate mozart 5th concerto ( which Lieberman had bitched on regularly to students ,being far harder than paganini or anything else)- for my sometimes 2x weekly lesson ,roasting - upon entering the chamber -greeted by seeing my eyebrows raised ,as I said shortly in appreciation ''that's not bad''- which we subsequently finished together the (liturgical)- ''for a russian'' together ,laughing) .PH did that , to mimic his own criticisms ..
I also played shostakovich 5th symphony ,which is doublespeak in its finest form .Solzhenitsen's We Never Make Mistakes - is related ,at least in spirit .
I found his string quartets less opaque ,as that is a less censurable 'diary 'form . (Mozarts greatest works regularly quoted from Bach's seminal equivalents- a Mozart fugue is a massive thing ,like 10 camels racing each other ,abreast)-all gleaned from the highest form of shorthand - the place of fugue in a string quartet - which JS Bach touched on in the 48 ,but in germinal form .
So these bold Shostakovitch 'nursery rhymes'- the kind of satire that Shostakovich hid all over the place ,like Alban Berg in his violin concerto - from which his mentor Schoenberg saw fit to begin serial music (12 tone rows variations )from the idea- in almost all his (Shostakovitch's) Stalin laboured symphonies .
Shostakovich wanted one thing in his life - to make people laugh .
He failed .
But so did Shakespeare ,in comparison to the Goons (Peter Sellers ,Spike Milligan ,Harry Secombe )
But they failed ,in comparison to NL's Johnny Van Doorn - who was of the opinion nobody had the right to understand him - he combined the breadth of Shostakovich's doublespeak with a kind of Monty Pythonism -that needs injected into Fauci ASAP .
The Soviet referential '' double cheek whammy '' greeting is a cultural equivalent of 'so you're not dead yet'?' - not that anyone western would get that .
A good hard slap on the back was reserved for special occasions .
Her humility blew me away - there is no faking the soviet placement of those fingers .
The bit where her teacher says '' it's too important '- my neighbors will complain' ' ,is built on the previous section of her duet based on her astonishing performance of Grieg's piano concerto in A minor .
Better than words .
But Ingrid Bergman has some of the most convincing piano playing ,in her ability to negate Sovietism , in essence .
Not only during the Stalin era, I remember seeing Brezhnev kissing another diplomat who had arrived from somewhere, and that was in the 70s. I also remember back in the 80s or 90s someone raving about Shostakovich's 11th Symphony, so I bought a copy: Meh.
I love his waltz no. 2 though... just saying...
Sat in the front row and fell asleep at the Fifth. I love it and it’s so bombastic. But I slept lol.
For a few days now I've had "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" playing in a loop in my mind - Elton John resisted!!
I like "Day by Day" from *Godspell* movie.
Her voice is growing up voices for me when our church that met at a middle school under construction had our choir practices at my parents house in the barrio.
Sounds like we weren't in America. ;^}> I can't tell you where we were even 50 years later, might compromise the places!
_Cherish is the new love, be well._
*May God nod to ward thee & thine!*
Celia, great post and most interesting. I appreciate music (as long as it's well written and well played). I'll definitely lend an ear to Shostakovitch' 5th. Music is so natural to life, especially music that's written with life in mind (as Shostakovitch has done). I remember a quote from my working days, "The whippings will continue until moral improves". Seems to go in line with your quote at the end "Your business is rejoicing. Your business is rejoicing"
Having ,long ago , studied post grad with the russians - (5 years Phillipe Hirshorn -the ultimate satirist ''They think I'm the angel of death ,which I probably am'' referring to why Lieberman's major intl competition winning students were scared (& obliged) to come to him, at all .
PH was a big man ,daring to demonstrate mozart 5th concerto ( which Lieberman had bitched on regularly to students ,being far harder than paganini or anything else)- for my sometimes 2x weekly lesson ,roasting - upon entering the chamber -greeted by seeing my eyebrows raised ,as I said shortly in appreciation ''that's not bad''- which we subsequently finished together the (liturgical)- ''for a russian'' together ,laughing) .PH did that , to mimic his own criticisms ..
I also played shostakovich 5th symphony ,which is doublespeak in its finest form .Solzhenitsen's We Never Make Mistakes - is related ,at least in spirit .
I found his string quartets less opaque ,as that is a less censurable 'diary 'form . (Mozarts greatest works regularly quoted from Bach's seminal equivalents- a Mozart fugue is a massive thing ,like 10 camels racing each other ,abreast)-all gleaned from the highest form of shorthand - the place of fugue in a string quartet - which JS Bach touched on in the 48 ,but in germinal form .
So these bold Shostakovitch 'nursery rhymes'- the kind of satire that Shostakovich hid all over the place ,like Alban Berg in his violin concerto - from which his mentor Schoenberg saw fit to begin serial music (12 tone rows variations )from the idea- in almost all his (Shostakovitch's) Stalin laboured symphonies .
Shostakovich wanted one thing in his life - to make people laugh .
He failed .
But so did Shakespeare ,in comparison to the Goons (Peter Sellers ,Spike Milligan ,Harry Secombe )
But they failed ,in comparison to NL's Johnny Van Doorn - who was of the opinion nobody had the right to understand him - he combined the breadth of Shostakovich's doublespeak with a kind of Monty Pythonism -that needs injected into Fauci ASAP .
The Soviet referential '' double cheek whammy '' greeting is a cultural equivalent of 'so you're not dead yet'?' - not that anyone western would get that .
A good hard slap on the back was reserved for special occasions .
But the transition between Sovietism and laughter is best demonstrated by Ingrid Bergman in the early parts of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwbs3TKS7k
Her humility blew me away - there is no faking the soviet placement of those fingers .
The bit where her teacher says '' it's too important '- my neighbors will complain' ' ,is built on the previous section of her duet based on her astonishing performance of Grieg's piano concerto in A minor .
Better than words .
But Ingrid Bergman has some of the most convincing piano playing ,in her ability to negate Sovietism , in essence .
Not only during the Stalin era, I remember seeing Brezhnev kissing another diplomat who had arrived from somewhere, and that was in the 70s. I also remember back in the 80s or 90s someone raving about Shostakovich's 11th Symphony, so I bought a copy: Meh.