Piano Quartet No. 1, Mvt. III by David Jacques
aka the third movement of the piano quartet that my boyfriend wrote.
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Hi, I'm Alex.
Hi, I'm Alex.
I:
Play violin
Go to school
Teach violin lessons
Play in orchestras.
Waste time on the internet
Have ADD. Bad.
Kick ass at Scrabble
Have a caffeine addiction
I also may or may not party.
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Hilary Hahn playing the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 III. Allegro, ma non tanto.
Symphony No. 2 in D - IV. Finale, Allegro Moderato - Jean Sibelius
I’ve been getting into Sibelius as of late. I can tell you from my most recent findings that he is most definitely:
- Finnish
- Awesome
- The Shiz.
It’s all about the violin concerto.
Jean Sibelius’s Punch Recipe, which is a jammier version of sangria, it seems. From here.
1 l water + sugar + jam + brandy or spirit.
Add 2 bottles of wine when everything is completely cold.
Add a few drops of Bergamot oil in a lump of sugar, which
must be melted in the water.(N.B. All mineral waters make the punch black.)
Still reading The Rest is Noise, and it’s still wonderful. Looking forward to having lots of reading time on the many planes.
How to Write a Fugue
The story behind “Devil’s Trill” starts with a dream. Tartini allegedly told the French Jérôme Lalande that he dreamed that The Devil appeared to him and asked to be his servant. At the end of their lessons Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his skill—the devil immediately began to play with such virtuosity that Tartini felt his breath taken away. When the composer awoke he immediately jotted down the sonata, desperately trying to recapture what he had heard in the dream. Despite the sonata being successful with his audiences, Tartini lamented that the piece was still far from what he had heard in his dream. What he had written was, in his own words: “so inferior to what I had heard, that if I could have subsisted on other means, I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever.” It was believed to have been a song that was played in heaven but was banished for its negativity against God. It is also believed that if you played it your soul would belong to the devil forever. In other words, it is believed that this is one of the hardest pieces ever written for the violin, featuring many different skills the violinist must master in order to play it skillfully.
I’ve been a little obsessed with this piece lately. It’s much better when accompanied by harpsichord.
I agree with most of them, but I agree less with the order. Mahler needed to be much higher on the countdown. Dvorak 9 is not more metal…. It more like what the people who can’t handle real metal music listen to ‘cause they want to seem more hardcore. I almost compared it to Linkin Park, but that would be terrible of me, because Dvorak 9 is still a great symphony.
I’ll quit my rant…. Read the countdown.
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