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You can! find a pretty girl to teach you...

Listening to Leontyne price all morning...Caro Nome, from Verdi's Rigoletto...
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When I was about tweleve years old, my mother went on an kick where she would listen to Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," on the record player(!) and it really grew on me. I also like Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty Waltz," and I really appreciate how Walt Disney incorporated the tune into the movie. It brings back memories of being a carefree child with big dreams.
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Well said LivreAmour!

Four Seasons Vivaldi...
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Enesco's Romanian Rhapsody turned up full volume to scare the hell out of your neighbors.
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Barcarolle, from Tales of Hoffman , by Offenbach...
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Un Bel Di Vedremo from Puccini's Madame Butterfly is definitely up there on my list...
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As is the Aria from Madame Butterfly ' One Fine Day '
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Fantasia on a Theme by Ralph Vaughan-Williams--this song is the reason why I believe in an afterlife--it takes me there
Pavane by Gabriel Faure
Concerto in F Major (particularly the third and final section) by Gershwin
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True story with accompanying video.

The family of the renowned pianist, Vladimir Horowitz, was dispossessed by the Russian Revolution and lost everything. Horowitz vowed never to return to Russia. As his fame grew the Russians became aware of the magnificence of Horowitz's piano interpretations. They also knew his story and the fact that he had been a personal friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexande Scriabin when he lived in Russia - their two most famous modern day composers.

In 1986, in the closing days of Horowitz's life, he decided to return to Moscow to play a concert in a gesture of reconciliation and world peace. News of the concert spread though it was "officially ignored" by the Russian state. Lines began to que overnight as the tickets for the concert became available and it was soon sold out.

The final selection Horowitz played as an encore (link to actual performance below) was from Schumann's Traumerei ("Songs From Childhood"). The day World War Two ended Russian state radio played this piece over and over and over without pause. Russia had lost 20,000,000 people in the war. This piece of music had tremendous emotional meaning to the people sitting in the audience though a western viewer would not know that. The emotional reaction of the crowd, including one man openly weeping, was, I'm sure, an indication of the crowd's memory of that storied radio broadcast ... as well, perhaps, of Horowitz's own "memories of childhood" when he lived in Russia.

Now you know the story, and here is the video ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7ncjhSqtk

From the same concert ... "heavy metal" for the classical crowd ... Scriabin Etude Op 8 No 12
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DATo wrote:True story with accompanying video.

The family of the renowned pianist, Vladimir Horowitz, was dispossessed by the Russian Revolution and lost everything. Horowitz vowed never to return to Russia. As his fame grew the Russians became aware of the magnificence of Horowitz's piano interpretations. They also knew his story and the fact that he had been a personal friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexande Scriabin when he lived in Russia - their two most famous modern day composers.

In 1986, in the closing days of Horowitz's life, he decided to return to Moscow to play a concert in a gesture of reconciliation and world peace. News of the concert spread though it was "officially ignored" by the Russian state. Lines began to que overnight as the tickets for the concert became available and it was soon sold out.

The final selection Horowitz played as an encore (link to actual performance below) was from Schumann's Traumerei ("Songs From Childhood"). The day World War Two ended Russian state radio played this piece over and over and over without pause. Russia had lost 20,000,000 people in the war. This piece of music had tremendous emotional meaning to the people sitting in the audience though a western viewer would not know that. The emotional reaction of the crowd, including one man openly weeping, was, I'm sure, an indication of the crowd's memory of that storied radio broadcast ... as well, perhaps, of Horowitz's own "memories of childhood" when he lived in Russia.

Now you know the story, and here is the video ....
Wow... That's incredible. Horowitz's interpretive art is one I greatly admire. I didn't know this story. It gives so much more meaning to the music. Thank you for sharing, Dato. :D
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I love Danse Macabre. Not only is it beautiful over all, but it tells a story.
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Overture to the Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
Schumann's song cycle 'Dichterliebe'
Quartet Soave il Vento from Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte
Humming chorus from Puccini's Madame Butterfly
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

and much much more!!!!
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Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart
Water Music by Handel
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@DATo again, I say unto you, thank you!! I was glad to read that again.
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One of my favorites is one my high school band performed, Beethoven's Egmont Overture. It's an amazingly upbringing but deep piece. It fills you up with this incredible feeling of peace at least it does for me. :)
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