This Is Fun?

This is fun?

And the sound engineers said: "You want perfect acoustics? Huh? Perfect acoustics? OK, here, here's yer perfect acoustics!"

Missing Melody (by George Christakis)

The key here, so to speak, is the year.

henri matisse

interior with harmonium

Some nice clarity here. 

zveneczi:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major ‘Waldstein’, Op. 53 (1804) - I. Allegro con brio

Tibor Szász - piano

npr:

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.