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Rite of Spring (Russian Ballet, Opera) Valentine Hugo Ink Drawing Sacred dance of the Chosen’s Rite of Spring Ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky Premiere at Theatre des Champs-Elysees in 1913 Ballets Russes Exhibition Library-Museum of the Paris Opera dalbera

I would love to have a poster of this…or even, dare I say it, a shower curtain. Awesome!

Page from a sketchbook of Arnold Schoenberg.

(via TheDailyBeethoven)

I could never pick a single Gould album. But if you absolutely forced me. Well. If you absolutely forced me, I would probably have to pick the Byrd-Gibbons album too.

In Anno 1630, un bel cd di Lorenzo Ghielmi spunta un pezzo per organo di Frescobaldi, Aria detto Balletto, che a me sembra molto molto simile, quasi identico alla Allemande (Italian Ground) di Orlando Gibbons immortalata da Glenn Gould nel suo celebre disco di virginalisti al pianoforte.

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After a black day, I play Haydn,

and feel a little warmth in my hands.

The keys are ready. Kind hammers fall.

The sound is spirited, green, and full of silence.

The sound says that freedom exists

and someone pays no tax to Caesar.

I shove my hands in my haydnpockets

and act like a man who is calm about it all.

I raise my haydnflag. The signal is:

“We do not surrender. But want peace.”

The music is a house of glass standing on a slope;

rocks are flying, rocks are rolling.

The rocks roll straight through the house

but every pane of glass is still whole.

- “Allegro,” by Tomas Transtromer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today. Poem translated by Goran Malmqvist.

I find it amusing that Earl Wild took on Hindemith's 3rd. Doesn't do too bad a job either. I can't tell exactly how he felt about the music, he's doing everything "right" but it doesn't have all the juice it might. He must have enjoyed it somewhat. Great work and always good to have another document of it.