thefrogman:

By Phil McAndrew [website | tumblr | twitter]

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nyphil:

Eye on Igor

“My music is best understood by children and animals.”

A happy 131st birthday to Igor Stravinsky, composer, conductor, and Honorary Member of the Philharmonic. We’re squeezing a lot of Stravinsky into our final few weeks of the 2012–13 season, with performances of his suite from The Firebird concluding tomorrow and two of his ballets — The Fairy’s Kiss and Petrushka — forming the basis of our season finale, A Dancer’s Dream.

Unsurprisingly, the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives is a treasure trove of Stravinsky photos and other memorabilia. Some of our favorites (including shots with Leonard Bernstein and, separately, Elliott Carter, as well as a moment in which Igor takes time to stop and smell the roses) are above. You can browse through more here.

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thepianoblog:

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monstrsacre:

Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy in the latter’s apartment in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris; photo by Erik Satie, June 1910. Stravinsky and Debussy performed a four-hand piano arrangement of Part I of The Rite of Spring for a private audience in June of 1912.

They were homeboys

I might have just died.

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youplaythewhat:

The Philadelphia Orchestra has some fun while waiting on a plane in Beijing

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notsufferingfrominsanity:

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mahleriana:

ericlachance:

leonard bernstein conducting the boston symphony in a performance of mahler’s resurrection symphony at tanglewood, 1970

oh hey that’s what i look like when i listen to mahler

this might be one of my favourite things ever

YES

YOU GO LENNY

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classicalmusicmusings:

String Quartet No. 8by Dmitri Shostakovich
I. Largo
II. Allegro Molto
III. Allegretto
IV. Largo
V. Largo

Written in three days, this string quartet was meant to serve as a suicide note for Shostakovich.  One of the many struggles in his life was sense of false, forced nationalism towards the Soviet Regime.  He dedicated this string quartet is “to the victims of fascism and war.”

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alexlikesargyle:

If you say “parallel fifths” three times in a dark practice room, the ghost of Bach will come and drop a fortepiano on your head.

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In honor of the 100th anniversary of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, here is a video of the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest conducted by Jaap van Zweden (current music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra) performing it.

twobassoonists:

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conversationalfootnotes:

Hindemith conducts Symphonic Metamorphoses 4/4 (by shellac1925)

nigglerambles:

We see so many collections and medleys of hot actors, athletes, even news anchors. Well, now I present my own of the hottest classical musicians.

Name: Andreas Ottensamer

Education: Harvard University

Occupation: Principal Clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic

See him in action: http://youtu.be/mqSIaeO79to