http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com A blog about classical music covering greats such as Mozart, Beethoven and related Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:25:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's peculiar how retirement takes some operatic divas after the final curtain falls. After wasting her time and passion on Aristotle Onassis, and blowing those obsidian soprano tones - and surgical bel canto attack - in the last shocking period of a once epic career, Maria Callas spent her final ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/10/04/an-interiew-with-kiri-te-kanawa/ mood: somber music: Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata If you need to know how it sounds, find it on Youtube and search it. I was late, I admit. I did not check my e-mail as often as I should have and missed on this opportunity but I figured, 20,000 applicants, no problem ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/09/20/i-did-not-get-into-the-hko-founders-beta/ and if you don't believe me, all you have to do is watch this video of Andrew Rieu and the Strauss Orchestra playing Shosta's Jazz Waltz nr. 2, not only does it fill up a stadium, there is wide spread chanting like in a stadium, cheering, clapping and encouragement closer ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/08/17/classical-music-can-attract-rock-star-reception/ So I was never a big fan of Vanessa Mae but she is still a popular iconic artist in classical music, controversial as she may be (as you can see in her interpretation of Tartini's Devil's Trill) but what she does do is open it to an entirely new generation ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/07/23/vanessa-mae/ The controversial Bugs Bunny Rhapsody, which is often cited as a copycat of Bugs Bunny, but still enjoyable, why don't they make cartoons like this anymore? http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/07/17/rhapsody-rabbit/ This is Midori Goto, world famous japanese violinist and for a good reason, maybe the best violinist around in my opinion, playing the famed Del Jesu violin, she performs with the kind of spirit and power that would not be believable until you saw it for yourself, she's also very ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/07/06/midori-goto-plays-tchaikovsky/ The famous ending piece of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Konzert Saal in Vienna at New Years day! http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/05/07/vienna-philharmonic-playing-the-radetzy-march/ Lang Lang playing Mozart in his usual style and format, nice to listen to as usual. http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/04/29/lang-lang-plays-mozart/ Lang Lang plays Hungarian Rhapsody in the Horowitzian way, this piece is incredibly difficult to play in the first place, he can play it very fast, and the Horowitz version is technically even more challenging than the original Liszt but is it better? hmmmm http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/04/16/lang-lang-plays-hungarian-rhapsody-horowitz-style/ PYONGYANG, North Korea -- The New York Philharmonic is giving a historic concert in North Korea, becoming the first major American cultural group to perform in the country and the largest-ever delegation from the U.S. to visit. Lorin Maazel arriving in PyongyangThe Philharmonic began the performance with "Patriotic Song" -- North ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/mozartbach:hellokitty.com/2008/02/26/new-york-philharmonic-performing-in-north-korea/