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Musical Gem of the Week #13
28 Aug 2010 | 1 Comment »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): 20th century composers, classical music, common practice era, concerto, imperial russia, music, musical composition, piano, piano concerto, piano virtuosos, post-romantic music, post-romanticism, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, rachmaninoff, rachmaninov, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, russia, russian, russian composers, russian empire, russian music, russian nationalism, Sergei Rachmaninov, slavic, tchaikovsky, tsardom
Musical Gem of the Week #12
02 Jun 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): classical music, common practice era, imperial russia, marche slave, marches, music, musical composition, nationalism, orchestral compositions, ottoman empire, ottomans, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, russia, russian, russian composers, russian empire, russian music, russian nationalism, russo-turkish war, serbia, slavic, slavonic march, tchaikovsky, the five, the mighty handful, the nutcracker, turks
Musical Gem of the Week #11
23 May 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): bach, christian converts, classical era, classical music, classical period, common practice era, concert overture, felix mendelssohn, fingal's cave, german composers, hebrides, hebrides overture, inner hebrides, j. s. bach, jewish composers, johann sebastian bach, mendelssohn, music, musical composition, nature, overture, recordings, richard wagner, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, scotland, staffa, wagner
Musical Gem of the Week #10
12 May 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): arias, baritone arias, classical era, classical music, classical period, common practice era, gioachino rossini, Guillaume Tell, Il barbiere di Siviglia, italian composers, italian music, italian opera, largo al factotum, music, musical composition, nicolae herlea, opera, opera buffa, recordings, romantic era, romantic period, romanticism, rossini, sonata, the barber of seville, william tell
Make your life extraordinary
12 Mar 2010 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities, Fun, Philosophy
Tag(s): byron, carpe diem, cinema, dead poets society, films, horace, john keating, life, lord byron, movies, peter weir, Philosophy, philosophy of life, robert frost, romanticism, seize the day