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bussyplease · 8 months

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I made this a while ago on paint at midnight in a fever like state and needed to post it here

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recapitulation · 9 months

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me when i suddenly hear an organ in the second movement of saint-saëns 3 which is literally titled . "organ"

[ID: Spatula, a brown tabby cat, looking frightened close to the camera /end ID]

#also i had my windows all the way down and my volume all the way up for the loud as fuck organ chord that opens mvmt 4 #jumpscaring me but also everyone else in my employers parking lot #saint saëns

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symphonybracket · 9 months

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Hello and welcome to symphony bracket!

This blog runs a tumblr-style poll bracket to select the "best symphony"!

Initial symphony submissions are currently active! Submit your favorite symphony to be included in the poll using this link.

Submissions are due by midnight, August 31. (GMT)

Voting will begin on September 1.

Additional information under the cut.

Please only submit symphonies.

When submitting, additional information is encouraged but not required. Link a photo of your favorite excerpt, specify your favorite recording, or tell us more about why you like it. This will be embedded in the poll.

If no recording is specified, I will choose one for you. I will link a recording (YouTube and Spotify) to each poll.

If the number of submissions is too large for one bracket, some may be cut. In this case, selections will be made firstly on number of submissions (more popular submissions will be preferentially included), and secondly on time submitted (those submitted sooner will be preferentially included).

For fun, guess the symphony that the solo in this blog's header image is from! Or, guess the instrument that is playing the solo!

This is being run by @recapitulation.

#classical music #tchaikovsky #mahler #liszt #violin #cello #ravel #saint saëns #stravinsky #french horn #viola #bass clef #who is out there following the bass clef tag. hi

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figureskatingcostumes · 16 days

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Koshiro Shimada's Danse Macabre costume at the 2023 Grand Prix de France, 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo and 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy. It was created by Mu-Costume design.

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#Koshiro Shimada #Japan #Figure skating #Saint Saëns #Danse Macabre #Men #2023–2024 #2023 Grand Prix de France #2023 Grand Prix of Espoo #2023 Nebelhorn Trophy #Mu Costume design

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danu2203 · 6 months

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Camille Saint-Saëns - La danse macabre

ALL HALLOWS’ EVE MUSIC...SAINT SAËNS, RAVEL, PHILLIP GLASS, ORF

#youtube #SAINT SAËNS #RAVEL #PHILLIP GLASS #ORF #ALL HALLOWS'EVE MUSIC

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infinitelytheheartexpands · 1 year

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promo pics for la monnaie de munt’s new production of henry viii are out and a) they look good and b) they look like every single other production olivier py has ever directed

#also it looks like he’s borrowing the genève les huguenots concept of making a historical film. hmm.#okay i hope it goes better in this production than it did in that one (which to be clear he didn’t direct. his huguenots prod was better.)#opera tag #opera #henry viii #camille saint saëns #saint saëns #camille saint-saëns #saint-saëns #la monnaie de munt #olivier py #anyway this is gonna be streamed on operavision next tuesday (the 16th) y’all should watch i love this opera

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lesser-known-composers · 3 months

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Saint Saëns (1835-1921) - Les Barbares, Catherine Hunold (Floria) Acte III "Sans amour..."

Orchestre Symphonique Saint-Étienne Loire

Chœur Lyrique Saint-Étienne Loire

Chef de chœur, Laurent Touche

#Saint Saëns #opera #classical music #Youtube

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violinconcertobracket · 4 months

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Propaganda:

Brahms:

as an orchestral cellist lemme just say brahms knew how to write the shit out of an accompaniment!! this is one of my absolute favorite all-around pieces to play, the melodies are so delicious. soloists always take liberties with rubato in the third movement and it's so much fun. also one time i was hanging out with a friend who insulted this concerto by complaining that it "doesn't do or say anything" and i literally saw red. can we just prove my friend wrong out of spite please

Once I listened to the Brahms violin concerto on an airplane and I think listening to the strings as we broke cloud cover and watching the pink sunlight on the tops of the clouds is the closest I've seen to capital-H Heaven

Saint-Saens:

This is what I’m playing for my conservatory audition in December. If you want a girl to achieve her dream of becoming a violinist against her parents’ will, vote for Saint-Saens.

#classical music #violin #violin concerto #violin concerto bracket #brahms #johannes brahms #saint saëns #camille saint saëns

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theartisticscientistsworld · 1 year

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Don't you ever just * bacchanale by saint-saëns*

#classical music #saint saëns

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weak-password-haver · 8 months

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Devlog #0

I should probably start with how I got this idea in the first place...

Well it all started when my sister made me listen to the 'Danse Macabre' by Saint-Saëns and I said: woah that sounds like boss music

BRAIN BLAST

What if I make it a boss music!

So I went looking for a version in the PUBLIC DOMAIN

Have a listen:

I've also been making a photo-bashed video mock up. I've made the into sequence but nothing is set in stone. (also i do not own any of the images used, they're from google images)

The plot of the song is basically that death goes about in a cemetery raises the dead to dance with and when the sun comes up it goes away (death also plays the fiddle which I find amusing)

Also I am very new to Tumblr... do tell me if the post is too long

#devlog #game development #classical music #game design #saint saëns #boss music

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rolflovesclassicalmusic · 1 year

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Concert review, ★★★★½, Veriko Tchumburidze, Can Çakmur @ Aula, Zurich University, 2022-11-11 (Musik an der ETH und UZH) — Mozart: Sonata No.32 for Piano and Violin in B♭ major, K.454; Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, S.529/2; Schumann: 3 Romances, op.94; Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata No.1 in D minor, op.75

Blog post #632 —

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mrbacf · 2 years

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Veja "Camille Saint-Saëns - Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 58 (1858)" no YouTube

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#youtube #music #orchestra #classical music #19th century #violin #concerto #saint saëns

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symphonybracket · 8 months

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YouTube Links: Borodin 2, Saint-Saëns 3

Submitter's comments:

Borodin 2 (2 submittals)

cool

Famous first movement theme, simply beautiful third.

The third movement LITERALLY feels like you are entering the faerie realm or some shit. THEEEE most beautiful horn and clarinet solos on planet earth.... gives me chills every time fr. Have you listened to it yet have you listened to it have yo

Saint-Saëns 3 (1 submittal)

the use of the pipe organ is exceptional

#borodin #saint saëns #Spotify #poll

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figureskatingcostumes · 5 days

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Ahsun Yun skating to Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for her free program at the 2022 Skate America and 2022 Ice Challenge.

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

#Ahsun Yun #Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso #Saint Saëns #Figure skating #Women #South Korea #2022–2023 #2022 Skate America #2022 Ice Challenge

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greenthena · 5 months

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The Eldritch Ball or Aziraphale's Macabre Danse

I'm a huge sucker for dark classical music (I'm using the term "classical" broadly, not referring to the specific period. Music-y folks, please forgive.) As such, Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" is one of my all time favorite pieces. It's spooky. It's intentionally dissonant. It's even got a jump scare! Like, literally, the perfect piece of music.

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The story behind "Danse Macabre" goes like this: Each Halloween at midnight, Death enters the graveyard with a fiddle. As he plays, the skeletons rise from the ground and dance through the cemetery, resurrected by Death's power and possessed by his instrument.

In S2 E3, the Bentley plays "Danse Macabre" as Aziraphale drives up to Edinburgh. "What do we do? We play classical music that stays classical music." (And the Bentley listens to him! Because the Bentley is an expression of Crowley's subconscious and wants to please him and make him happy...and I'm sure you can find lots of excellent metas to that end. Or maybe you have another theory about why the Bentley is so pliant toward the angel? I'd love to hear it. But that's not what I'm talking about right now. I'm just getting distracted.)

Why is this song so perfect for a bit of subtle foreshadowing and repeated metaphor? So glad you asked. I have reasons. And evidence. Please, peruse my wares.

In the A Plot of this episode, Aziraphale travels to Scotland to visit a pub called The Resurrectionist. (Ya know, like Death? Like how Death resurrects people in the song? Okay, just wanted to really hit that nail into the coffin.) The pub is, of course, named for a certain Mr. (not Dr., he's a surgeon) Dalrymple, whom Crowley and Aziraphale meet in the accompanying flashback minisode entitled (you'll never guess) "The Resurrectionist." The minisode plot involves Crowley and his the angel encountering young Elspeth, a grave robber who, like Death, releases the bodies of the deceased from their earthly bonds of soil and stone. My interpretation is that Elspeth becomes Death incarnate, first in the process of using her instrument (her shovel) to resurrect the dead, and later when she inadvertently brings about the literal death of her partner, Wee Morag. Rather than allow Wee Morag's body to turn to dust in the ground, Elspeth "resurrects" her, selling her body to Dr. Dalrymple (sorry, Mr. Dalrymple, he's a surgeon, not a doctor), who will use Wee Morag's body for research, which will in turn save the lives of countless others by furthering the field of medicine. A form of resurrection, indeed. There's also the plot thread of Crowley and Aziraphale providing Elspeth with a nest egg to escape the cycle of poverty into which she has been born. This, too, is another form of re-birth. Or, say it with me, resurrection. Alright, you're getting it now.

Okay, now I get to delve into the fun stuff. Let's talk about that cotillion ball, shall we? You know, that danse party where Aziraphale persuades all the shopkeepers on Whickber street to attend a Jane Austen-style ball?

I personally refer to this whole fiasco experience as the Eldritch Ball. On the surface, it seems fairly innocent. The shopkeepers need a little bit of encouragement to attend the Whickber Street monthly meeting, but the angel manages to convince everyone to join with the help of some coercion-via-bribery. When they show up, they're transmuted into Austen-esque characters, from their clothes, to their speech patterns, even to some extent, their perception of reality. This is where it starts to get a little uncomfortable if you peel back the layers. Mrs. Sandwich can't talk about what she does for a living, which is a great comedy bit, but also demonstrates that her speech is being significantly censored and altered by an outside force. With the exception of Mr. Brown (hidden agendas here, Neil? I honestly don't know), all the shopkeepers find themselves in new, slightly-period-appropriate garments. What's really weird, though, is that no one notices the changes. When the dancing begins, to the music of Mr. Anderson's piano and an accompanying string quartet (strings...as in violins...as in fiddles. Remember Death's fiddle?), Nina appears to be the only one who realizes that something is off.

Maggie: This is something new.

Nina: This is something completely bonkers. Are we...? Why is everyone talking like they've escaped from Pride and Prejudice?

Maggie: Just getting into the spirit of things, I suppose.

Nina: The spirit of what things? This is meant to be the shopkeeper association monthly meeting.

Maggie: Hmm. Yes. Now that you put it like that...

Nina: Are we dancing?

Maggie: Yes.

Nina: Did you ever learn the steps to this dance?

Maggie: It's just what we do, isn't it?

Nina: No. No, it isn't. This is something mad. This is their [Crowley & Azirapahle's] fault. They're doing this.

Something is definitely mad. One might even say it's macabre. Aziraphale has become Death the Resurrectionist. He has lured the shopkeepers of Whickber Street through a portal (as Death leads his flock from the world of the dead to the world of the living.) Aziraphale's instrument is his clipboard and pen, held almost as one might hold a fiddle and bow, as he invites the various shopkeepers to the monthly meeting. Once they all arrive, he miraculously gives them new clothes (as Death knits together the bones of the dead), and then proceeds to control their bodies and minds, as though they are merely marionettes. They dance and speak in the way Aziraphale imagines, fulfilling his fantasy of a perfect Jane Austen-style ball (quite literally, the Danse Macabre.)

The shopkeepers have become the dead and Aziraphale controls them until the spell is broken--or rather until the window is broken.

To be honest, I don't think Aziraphale is really aware of how much he is able to transfigure his environment, including the humans who happen to be close by. Or, at least, I don't believe he does any of this with ill intent. He's just a bit blind to anything outside his fixation of wooing Crowley, at the moment. As a result, he creates a situation that is profoundly problematic and unnatural. Just like the dead in the graveyard have no agency when Death plays his fiddle, the Whickber Street shopkeepers are possessed by Aziraphale's intricate romantic fantasy and must dance as long as the music plays.

It is, in fact, only when the music stops, that the shopkeepers begin to realize that something is most certainly weird. The diagetic music (Mr. Anderson & Co.) abruptly cuts off when an approaching demon horde tosses a brick through the bookshop window. Now the spell, or in this case, miracle, begins to break down. While the shopkeepers still appear to be somewhat under the influence of Aziraphale's persuasive aura, a few of them glance down at their clothes in confusion and look around the bookshop, as though waking from a dream. And at this point, after a little finagling, Crowley escorts the humans out of the bookshop and out of Aziraphale's Danse Macabre.

Once the demons attack the bookshop Aziraphale's influence on his surroundings really starts to deteriorate. Throughout the season, he's been able to structure and manipulate reality (sometimes with Crowley's help) to suit his needs: protecting Gabriel, altering the Bentley, organizing the Ball, etc. But once the bookshop, his safe space, has been breached, he loses control of the situation. From this point in the narrative, nothing goes according to Aziraphale's plan. Aziraphale wants to protect Jimbriel, but the former archangel insists on giving himself over to the demons. Crowley leaves and Aziraphale has to defend the bookshop on his own, when he'd expected Crowley to come right back and save him. While defending the bookshop, Aziraphale reaches his "last" resort not once, but twice: first allowing Nina and Maggie to use his books (!!!) as weapons and then blowing up his halo in a last ditch effort to fend off the invaders. This was not on the agenda for today!

Things just continue to go downhill from there, Aziraphale losing all control of the situation. And by the time the Final Fifteen wraps up, the angel has lost his bookshop and possibly his most important relationship. By the end of the season, Aziraphale is no longer Death the Resurrectionist, the manipulator and puppeteer. Now the angel has become the puppet, dancing to Heaven's music.

#good omens #aziraphale #aziracrow #crowley #go metas #good omens meta #danse macabre #camille saint saëns #the bentley #nina and maggie #eldritch ball #elspeth #wee morag #dark music #Youtube

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infinitelytheheartexpands · 11 months

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once again: saint-saëns had no RIGHT to make such a dark banger

#opera tag #opera #henry viii #saint-saëns #camille saint-saëns #saint saëns #camille saint saëns #this scene is ‘people watch execution of disgraced nobleman while anne boleyn has a vision of carnage and everyone hates henry viii’#i tried to timestamp it but if it doesn’t work it starts 4 minutes and 49 seconds into the video #Youtube

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