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Not Rach pulling the classic depression move of making breakfast and then immediately going back to bed

So, I've started a comic!

It's an adaptation of the song The First Symphony by Dave Malloy. I'll be hosting it externally, because posting longer form comics on tumblr is an Absolute Nightmare, but I will make sure to post a notice on my blog whenever it updates.

Best Tom Ewell movies and performances:

1. The Seven Year Itch - Billy Wilder (1955)

BALLETS RUSSES MEME DUMP

but it's just my best ones i have more but im lazy rn

Some Russian Composers

I started to look into classical music and people like Philip Glass. From listening to stuff, I found out that I didn’t really like the “proper classical” stuff from around 1750, like Mozart and all that. But with Philip Glass, his music has a lot of mystery.

That was my introduction to discovering that side of music, the kind of abstract nature of music that has no lyrics and no title.

With Rachmaninoff, Lizst, and Chopin, there’s a mystery to the music, it’s much more abstract and much more able to stimulate your imagination, I think. For me, that was something I had never discovered in music. I was about 19 or 20 by then.

Matt Bellamy, on his classical influences | "Innocence And Absolution", Keyboard Magazine, June 2005

OTD in Music History: Legendary composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) makes his first public appearance as a concert pianist, at the “Moscow Electrical Exhibition” in 1892. Among other things, he performed his own “Morceaux de Fantaisie” (Op. 3) -- a then-four-part piano suite which included one of the most famous pieces he would ever compose, the “Prelude in c#.” Rachmaninoff was paid 50 rubles for this appearance. That doesn't mean much to us today... so as a point of comparison, we can note that he was paid only *40* rubles (which was still approximately two months’ worth of wages for a common factory worker in Russia at that time) by a music publisher in exchange for the *copyright* to the entire “Morceaux de Fantaisie” set. Of course, had Rachmaninoff merely held onto the copyright in the Prelude in c# *alone*, it would have made him a fortune down the line… Rachmaninoff originally conceived of the “Morceaux” as a set of four pieces, but he ended up adding a fifth piece after reading an interview which Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) granted to a Russian newspaper critic a few weeks after his debut public concert, in which he cited Rachmaninoff as one of the most outstanding young musicians in Russia. Rachmaninoff idolized Tchaikovsky, and was thrilled by this praise. As he later recounted: "I immediately sat down at the piano and composed a fifth piece (the ‘Serenade’) on the spot." Rachmaninov premiered this five-piece version of the suite at a subsequent concert appearance in December 1892, and two months later he also gave Tchaikovsky one of the first copies of the newly-published score to the set. (Tchaikovsky loved it.) PICTURED: A c. 1900 real photo postcard, showing a young Rachmaninoff as he would have appeared at the beginning of his international concert career.

String Quartet No. 1 (1889-90) by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Miesbach Kammermusikfestival II. Romance. Andante espressivo III. Scherzo. Allegro

Boris Borgolotto, Violin 1 Miclen LaiPang, Violin 2 Agnieszka Podłucka, Viola Marc Girard Garcia, Cello

Dmitri Shostakovich similar artists map

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony nº 2 in E minor, op 27 (IV. Adagio). Yannick Nézet-Séguin, director

Ich habe so süß von ihm geträumt… Ich weiß, dass er nie in meine Nähe kommen wird.

Vox Satanae: Episode #575 - A Tribute to Magister Neil Smith

Vox Satanae – Episode #575 19th-20th Centuries A Tribute to Magister Neil Smith This week we hear works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giacomo Puccini, George Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, P.D.Q. Bach, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. 140 Minutes – Week of April 15, 2024 Stream Vox Satanae Episode 575. Download Vox Satanae Episode 575.

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Million Dollar Hands

Sergei Rachmaninoff hated getting photographed without his consent, it annoyed him greatly, including for this shot. However, when he saw the title of this one in the newspaper, he was amused.